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 utensils
Below is a list of describing words for utensils. 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 utensils:
- sharp or ponderous
- humble and unrecognized
- conceivable domestic
- conventional domestic
- powerful energy-producing
- innumerable culinary
- etruscan sacred
- apparently harmless and common
- expensive stainless-steel
- vulgar agricultural
- thoroughly clean and free
- curious simple
- similar frail
- several sorely-needed
- tremendous, elegant
- uncouth, heavy
- essentially prehistoric
- rough and old-fashioned
- worn-out and rusty
- startlingly human
- other domestical
- innumerable sacrificial
- domestic and sacred
- raw chemical
- few culinary
- chief culinary
- already impeccable
- harmless and common
- various primeval
- nameless domestic
- also metal and electrical
- heaviest golden
- culinary and domestic
- meanest and most ordinary
- various stable
- graceful domestic
- convenient german
- extra, useless
- portable sacred
- ordinary culinary
- old unimproved
- various lethal
- chinese culinary
- various culinary
- hollow or concave
- rude domestic
- countless domestic
- common necessary
- expensive and important
- modern labor-saving
- useful small
- |artificial
- usual culinary
- humblest domestic
- small useful
- innumerable domestic
- various sacrificial
- other culinary
- proper and convenient
- metal and electrical
- domestic and culinary
- various requisite
- primitive culinary
- numerous and vast
- quaint domestic
- useful or necessary
- sacrificial and other
- useful and satisfactory
- curious and inexplicable
- principal domestic
- common useful
- clean, sterile
- cheap domestic
- sometimes necessary
- small convenient
- also metal
- culinary
- common culinary
- many time-honored
- few aboriginal
- other domestic
- rude, primitive
- far handsomer
- other sharp
- universally useful
- various domestic
- certain miscellaneous
- always reliable
- various metal
- more obdurate
- thoroughly clean
- necessary domestic
- perhaps simple
- energy-producing
- domestic and other
- best and most convenient
- such cumbersome
- sorely-needed
- few essential
- strange symbolic
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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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