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 visit
Below is a list of describing words for visit. 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 visit:
- obligatory familial
- delightfully unexpected
- inevitable and interminable
- special good-night
- secret and officious
- surprising and unwelcome
- official pastoral
- royal and flaming
- clandestine and highly irregular
- subsequent epoch-making
- shortest professional
- sentimental or pious
- long, social
- officially surreptitious
- shortly forthcoming
- unscheduled and unapproved
- unofficial but immediate
- almost recreational
- faraway and disastrous
- last biannual
- spontaneous and unannounced
- short or periodical
- shells--geological
- brief good-night
- joint and solemn
- awful and unfortunate
- last occasional
- unexpected, radiant
- horribly unseasonable
- faithful, gratuitous
- official welcome
- exotic or nostalgic
- memorable and delightful
- upcoming official
- clandestine nocturnal
- unexpected hospital
- silly unplanned
- quick, nighttime
- sudden unannounced
- occasional mid-week
- single, one-day
- single two-day
- agreeable and civilized
- stealthy, nocturnal
- apparently ill-timed
- necessary complimentary
- mere one-night
- forthcoming official
- recent lengthy
- terribly moist
- further pastoral
- successful and memorable
- short three-day
- three-day secret
- brief and infinitely respectful
- ostensibly amicable
- open and noisy
- tiresome and oppressive
- nuneham--royal
- twice-annual
- eccentric and unexpected
- stealthy nocturnal
- short but very pleasant
- audacious and absurd
- little semi-official
- private overseas
- odd, eventful
- slow and evocative
- yearly dental
- nansal
- drennial
- frustratingly nonproductive
- formal and time-consuming
- slightly impromptu
- silent nocturnal
- grim and unproductive
- singularly unrewarding
- longer conjugal
- possibly coincidental
- next dutiful
- last, unofficial
- last nocturnal
- brief and outspoken
- historically brief and outspoken
- lengthy but entirely unsatisfactory
- sly moonlit
- brief and stealthy
- dishonorable and reckless
- unintentional and disconcerting
- royal familiar
- real betrothal
- tea-cosy--social
- previous occasional
- pleasant and quite unexpected
- social, cozy
- extremely welcome and agreeable
- casual elastic
- former unauthorized
- conscientious pastoral
- foolish impertinent
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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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