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 visitor
Below is a list of describing words for visitor. 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 visitor:
- frequent and welcome
- frequent and rather dangerous
- frequent or welcome
- dazed or frantic
- unnamed foreign
- regal, blonde
- humble reverent
- agreeable but frivolous
- frequent and ever welcome
- frequent but always shadowy
- voiceless nocturnal
- privileged and frequent
- constant and welcome
- penetrating, attentive
- fatal, unseen
- rare but privileged
- sensible mendicant
- pale and respectable
- recent ducal
- unknown occasional
- unofficial and unexpected
- important, unofficial and unexpected
- appalling or obnoxious
- rather uncommunicative
- meek and transient
- fair and tardy
- soft-hearted, sentimental
- frequent and most welcome
- innocent supernatural
- friendly respectful
- agreeable and liberal
- frequent literary
- unannounced royal
- barbaric hairy
- welcome and frequent
- apparently benign
- -deal
- brief daytime
- always shadowy
- silent, pliable
- mysterious late-night
- unusually large and stocky
- bedraggled, unescorted
- occasional, fitful
- lean and curious
- especially furtive
- solemn skeletal
- unwelcome, insistent
- marvelously welcome
- discerning and marvelously welcome
- theoretical casual
- unexpected and rather alarming
- ordinarily important
- questionably welcome
- rare intentional
- bearded and bespectacled
- more, unique
- annoying, high-profile
- perfectly active
- deliciously strange
- ordinarily immune
- troublesome, exacting
- welcome and constant
- frequent and most familiar
- graceful and still youthful
- bold, unwelcome
- absurd but equally startling
- well-educated clerical
- fresh unofficial
- occasional and intermittent
- sudden or unwelcome
- constant and most enthusiastic
- idle or unworthy
- sympathetic or curious
- mysterious and welcome
- once unwelcome
- unknown and possibly unimportant
- tremendous nocturnal
- un-commercial
- intelligent, un-commercial
- innocent, unprofessional
- frequent and privileged
- unbidden, unexpected
- daring, unknown
- magnificent blue-black
- faithful annual
- unexpected and evidently unwelcome
- sufficiently amiable and well-bred
- sufficiently amiable
- tall, acrobatic
- always tumultuous
- frequent and always tumultuous
- playful but treacherous
- often galling and depressing
- often galling
- haggard and savage
- unlucky one-day
- frivolous and careless
- privileged and generally welcome
- crafty, round-faced
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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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