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 vent
Below is a list of describing words for vent. 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 vent:
- principal and habitual
- extinct geothermal
- noxious thermal
- main geo-thermal
- also good and profitable
- harmless and even wholesome
- free and moral
- rifled metal
- clamorous and painful
- occasional recent
- present and congenial
- true lateral
- notable ample
- loud and liberal
- full and verbal
- extinct underwater
- various inconspicuous
- constant and common
- particular, full
- familiar but disused
- waste-material
- fair-sized volcanic
- productive hydrothermal
- futuristic metal
- just ample
- divinely righteous
- noblest and safest
- free and loud
- ordinary central
- circular volcanic
- hydrothermal
- lumpy volcanic
- nearest disposal
- deep thermal
- subterranean geothermal
- such thermal
- dark, bold
- harmless physical
- quick and useful
- harmless or useful
- now quiescent
- harmless and healthy
- free and arbitrary
- copious and rich
- less sinful
- geo-thermal
- partial and occasional
- great and ample
- ample and full
- underwater volcanic
- also good
- massive, natural
- easy and immediate
- hitherto quiescent
- new volcanic
- safe and pleasant
- usual candid
- customary military
- old volcanic
- full and ready
- precious liquid
- dim subterranean
- good and profitable
- big, dusty
- main east
- less insane
- geothermal
- single independent
- extinct volcanic
- large volcanic
- volcanic
- ever open
- vast volcanic
- great lateral
- sooty old
- free and unrestrained
- main vertical
- great and continual
- safest and best
- roughly circular
- loose open
- healthy and natural
- active volcanic
- huge irregular
- huge volcanic
- similar circular
- last violent
- own sufficient
- more legitimate
- such boisterous
- old central
- freer
- hot-air
- free
- small auxiliary
- greatest and most important
- thermal
- somewhat fantastic
- disposal
- highly radioactive
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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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