Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
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Words to Describe treasures
Below is a list of describing words for treasures. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe treasures:
- international, temporal
- major sunken
- usually sanctified
- other inexhaustible
- inexhaustible and noble
- countless and inexhaustible
- talented, industrious and obedient
- immense and prodigious
- wicked, bloody
- rich and almost inexhaustible
- highest noblest
- away meaningless
- cultural and ecological
- equally lustrous and exotic
- absurd, useless
- colored impressionist
- selflessly loyal
- rare immaterial
- unknown, priceless
- dear but too bulky
- great and well-nigh royal
- rich antiquarian
- glorious unattainable
- worth priceless
- heavy splendid
- wonderful incalculable
- incredibly unusual
- eternal and satisfying
- sole aquatic
- precious and golden
- other, less-obvious
- many pharmaceutical
- twice unique
- vital cultural
- brilliant, rare
- precious and entirely incalculable
- glorious and inexhaustible
- entirely incalculable
- sensitive, skillful
- dainty bibliographical
- incredible and marvelous
- imaginary fabulous
- thy brimful
- various and precious
- proudest and most secret
- precious and most exalted
- peculiar and inexhaustible
- remote, thy
- big and mythical
- rich ornithological
- richest, dearest
- forth new and unexpected
- great, eternal and unspeakable
- abundant philological
- greater nor nobler
- rich, immeasurable
- ceremonial and boundless
- graphic or literary
- blood-stained, new
- fresh and countless
- old, rare
- sixth moral
- equally lustrous
- well-nigh royal
- lustrous and exotic
- gracious and precious
- innumerable priceless
- legendary, limitless
- irreplaceable, international
- rich, alien
- few unsuspected
- invaluable anthropological
- useless magical
- unprecedented and priceless
- bootleg national
- fabulous non-existent
- wondrous, immeasurable
- sole and most precious
- unique, unheard-of
- godlike, heroical
- few nonmagical
- extraordinary and infinite
- rich and untold
- precious and rich
- vast and unnumbered
- celestial domestic
- possessed--material
- irreproachably neat and prim
- exact immense
- back literary
- past unheeded
- riche, rare and plentiful
- choicest antique
- rare and plentiful
- historical and esthetic
- earliest and only vellum
- genuine and imperishable
- timeless metaphysical
- other irredeemable
- dainty sacred
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Describing Words
The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!
Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.
Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).
The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.
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