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 addition
Below is a list of describing words for addition. 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 addition:
- latest and swiftest
- precious, vast
- aerodynamically undesirable
- definitely unattractive
- newest and most hopeful
- formal but entirely sincere
- instructive but bizarre
- immense and entirely new
- latest and grandest
- unique and important
- important, serviceable and immortal
- serviceable and immortal
- latest valuable
- decidedly graceful
- superficial and recent
- hasty or numerous
- enormous, sudden
- thoroughly painstaking and valuable
- odd and unnecessary
- distinct and most acceptable
- conventional or imaginative
- further and congenial
- slight but advantageous
- potential exotic
- unexpectedly welcome
- brief informative
- charming and most interesting
- spurious and unauthorized
- showy and delicious
- useless editorial
- doubtless striking
- quaint but doubtless striking
- elegant and striking
- unquestionably substantial
- recent and very ardent
- clumsy or gothic
- corporal and ponderous
- interesting and most desirable
- highly noteworthy
- foreign and arbitrary
- accidental and inefficient
- authentic anonymous
- latest gaudy
- new unwanted
- outstanding original
- own, unwitting
- unique stand-alone
- excellent unexpected
- ultimately unconvincing
- recent and ominous
- lavish and artful
- nice and tasteful
- youngest occasional
- recent charming
- slightly irate
- insignificant numerical
- humorous and formidable
- malicious and deliberate
- distinct and very valuable
- enormous and exceedingly valuable
- enormous and wonderful
- verie regular
- occasional capricious
- equal or desirable
- welcome or valuable
- cheery and enthusiastic
- quick and appetizing
- notable and wholly original
- puzzling and readable
- unexpected and lucrative
- eloquent, impressive and convincing
- generous and characteristic
- strange and adventitious
- astonishing annual
- thirteen-year-old and latest
- nice and inexpensive
- new and very unnecessary
- pleasant but irritating
- thoroughly welcome
- exotic and incongruous
- exceptionibly valuable
- further and most welcome
- positive structural
- peculiar but picturesque
- inadequate annual
- sudden and rich
- elegant, substantial and attractive
- important and welcome
- mere removable
- idly experimental
- unforeseen and delicious
- architecturally incongruous
- peculiarly unwelcome
- extraordinary and incalculable
- agreeable annual
- incongruous seventeenth-century
- singular and very beautiful
- agreeable and sufficient
- suitable and welcome
- mystic and mythical
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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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