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 voyage
Below is a list of describing words for voyage. 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 voyage:
- quick and prosperous
- happy, stormy
- long and unpopular
- your terrible
- sudden and compulsory
- insane temporal
- good and restful
- forthcoming long
- fair and uneventful
- almost tear-jerking
- long, unstructured
- boring and uneventful
- completely boring and uneventful
- medically uneventful
- acceptable preliminary
- long but agreeable
- eminent nonsensical
- perilous and long
- tedious but eventful
- tiresome and risky
- amazing strange
- rapid and merry
- exciting and impressive
- actual southern
- unsurpassably fortunate
- ill-fated fourth
- disastrous aerial
- prosperous and speedy
- long and tempestuous
- long four-month
- bumpy and noisy
- carkingly long
- admittedly risky
- long vain
- undetectable, uneventful
- desperate, high-speed
- comparatively pleasant and prosperous
- weary and tempestuous
- admirable and prosperous
- wearisome and wretched
- tedious stormy
- tempestuous, successful
- long and vile
- distant perilous
- late arctic
- uncomfortable and possibly perilous
- long and perhaps stormy
- perhaps stormy
- semi-commercial and piratical
- short and boisterous
- comparatively rapid and uneventful
- second arial
- short and favorable
- short but tempestuous
- pleasant and uneventful
- totally routine
- stormy and uncomfortable
- astounding spiritual
- exceedingly stressful
- dangerous, five-year
- long outbound
- reasonably pleasurable
- ill-fated last
- dangerous and eventful
- dangerous, eighth
- historic trans-atlantic
- long and sometimes tedious
- bothersome and unprofitable
- lucrative, routine
- enormously pointless
- frightening and enjoyable
- extraordinary and disastrous
- long, two-year
- lonely two-week
- pleasing and gainful
- long and well-paid
- rough, dreary
- tedious and stormy
- late uncomfortable
- long and boisterous
- long and hitherto unknown
- slow and very stormy
- fortunate and calm
- cautious, extraordinary
- ill-fated and final
- perilous oratorical
- eventful and hazardous
- speedy and agreeable
- dangerous or wonderful
- weary and distressing
- vexatious and disagreeable
- shortest and most favorable
- definite, safe
- tediously vexatious
- fine, uninterrupted
- stormy and most uncomfortable
- thrice ill-fated
- long or dangerous
- again safe and prosperous
- expeditious and agreeable
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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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