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 acknowledgment
Below is a list of describing words for acknowledgment. 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 acknowledgment:
- candid but careless
- brief, unspoken
- barest formal
- irrepressible, incontrovertible
- audible and absolute
- plaintive, honest
- impudently defiant
- respectful but emphatic
- graceful sensual
- verbal or gestural
- silent but unequivocal
- public grateful
- quick but courteous
- definite and unambiguous
- intelligent and devotional
- grudging half-hearted
- simple and highly pleasing
- brief but steady
- dryly formal
- grateful and public
- apparently explicit
- wide or real
- official circular
- proper and explicit
- voluntary and real
- due, grateful
- becomingly modest
- reciprocal and formal
- proverbially tardy
- especial and grateful
- public and joyful
- signal national
- silent or open
- due pecuniary
- repulsive and quite incongruous
- inadvertent and hasty
- fearless and overwhelming
- merry or happy
- doubtful, half-reluctant
- involuntary, spontaneous
- appreciative and defiant
- material, grateful
- common courteous
- frequent and cheerful
- happily alive
- curt and formal
- general and grateful
- general but grateful
- grateful and graceful
- formal and usual
- voluntary deliberate
- slight and gracious
- tacit, personal
- generous and complete
- involuntary and sad
- due and grateful
- full and due
- final and irreversible
- recent and solemn
- perfunctory, formal
- curiously petulant
- distinct and hearty
- further grateful
- distinct and broad
- last unsatisfactory
- open and truthful
- penetential
- silent, wry
- belated public
- muffled and somewhat indifferent
- chillingly lucid
- more noncommittal
- brief, guttural
- polite and often insincere
- corresponding electronic
- sterile and reluctant
- al or gestural
- brief but obviously sincere
- appropriate abstracted
- intentional public
- anxiously loving
- long and complimentary
- solemn and reciprocal
- _national solemn
- mute and graceful
- fullest and most substantial
- deep and formal
- full and indisputable
- brief and frank
- formal customary
- vague but courteous
- peaceful and solemn
- due civic
- grateful and hearty
- specially civil
- liberal and ingenious
- silent and generous
- mere tardy
- equal and cordial
- graceful and honorable
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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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