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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Below is a list of describing words for window. 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 window:
- beautiful east
- open french
- open second-story
- big forward-looking
- open second-floor
- small panoramic
- luxurious, well-lighted
- lone curtained
- immense east
- single all-round
- electric rear
- vast east
- glorious east
- great east
- enormous tremendous
- fine east
- single trapezoidal
- continuous floor-to-ceiling
- central first-floor
- single shuttered
- open floor-to-ceiling
- high second-story
- oval rear
- single blue-draped
- single, shuttered
- large east
- perpendicular east
- single and gloomy
- erratic, unexpected
- mysteriously dim
- high, leaded
- tiny, glassless
- dirty third-floor
- real transparent
- also hot and uncomfortable
- western circular
- small ground-glass
- curtained or shuttered
- triple gothic
- magnificent east
- single wrap-around
- beautiful left-hand
- lone, filthy
- handy open
- small glassless
- badly shuttered
- large second-story
- single, stingy
- always quiet and empty
- splendid east
- great second-story
- badly curtained
- noble east
- broad, rear
- depressed segmental
- curtained second-story
- single ample
- thinly curtained
- embarrassingly candid
- splendid perpendicular
- second-story
- weird peripheral
- large perpendicular
- open semicircular
- glassless
- third-story
- grimy rear
- high, grilled
- big, three-part
- small, glassless
- next hyperspacial
- tiny glassless
- enormous floor-to-ceiling
- nearest shuttered
- filthy rear
- double cathedral
- single filthy
- nearer portal
- single nearby
- best and regular
- great, ornamental
- wonderful succulent
- horizontal oblong
- unmistakably ecclesiastical
- superb east
- protective external
- eastern flamboyant
- perfectly quiet and grey
- central jewelled
- solitary semicircular
- worthy east
- low and very wide
- remote wide
- exceedingly chaste and beautiful
- sixth or eastern
- small and high-up
- broad and arched
- strangely arched
- lone big
- single, high
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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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