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 volcanoes
Below is a list of describing words for volcanoes. 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 volcanoes:
- historically active
- highest active
- northernmost active
- largest active
- venerable and still active
- extinct or dormant
- deepest undersea
- active or extinct
- greatest active
- extinct and active
- active and extinct
- massive, active
- inexhaustibly explosive
- active, dormant and extinct
- impossibly gargantuan
- intrusively visible
- grimly cold
- nearer active
- conical extinct
- also diminutive
- volcanoes--artificial
- previously dormant
- blinding, silent
- usually calm and well-mannered
- barely quiescent
- grand snow-covered
- small and probably extinct
- probably extinct
- massive extinct
- present extinct
- dormant and extinct
- incredibly enormous
- numerous active
- gigantic dormant
- twin extinct
- angry and active
- large, dormant
- solitary extinct
- small extinct
- small and very dead
- abundant active
- yellow southwestern
- strange, miniature
- extinct snow-covered
- secret hollow
- dead or extinct
- uninterruptedly active
- yon extinct
- central and linear
- scorched and petrified
- countless extinct
- remarkable active
- extinct or dead
- prodigious conical
- geological and figurative
- inverted terrestrial
- active or recently decayed
- great and ever active
- active lunar
- ancient and principal
- extinct or quiescent
- new or presumably extinct
- conspicuous extinct
- mighty javanese
- european active
- majestic chief
- dormant or moribund
- comfortably active
- now extinct or dormant
- ago extinct
- magnificent extinct
- extinct political
- later active
- merely sunken
- largest extinct
- obviously active
- seemingly inactive
- active apparent
- miniature active
- vast extinct
- same fossil
- seemingly extinct
- overnight, long-dormant
- dormant, subterranean
- barely dormant
- extinct underwater
- periodically active
- lanky, bearded
- highest and most violent
- single gaunt
- innumerable active
- newborn, ancient
- vulcanism-recently active
- tallest active
- quiescent andean
- towering active
- active undersea
- spectacularly active
- wonderful hydraulic
- excep�tionally virulent
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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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