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 arguments
Below is a list of describing words for arguments. 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 arguments:
- nice knock-down
- long and specious
- fine and plausible
- practical or logical
- imaginative and metaphysical
- loud and lengthy
- dull, statistical
- long and apparently violent
- moral, legal and psychological
- hour-long philosophical
- german, ongoing
- new, fit
- voluble and vehement
- convincing, constitutional
- skilful and impassioned
- vain and inconclusive
- familiar playful
- merely protracted
- unassailable and thoroughly convincing
- ordinary anti-christian
- macho emotional
- ignorant, specious
- weighty negative
- personal or captious
- congenial and convincing
- usual incontrovertible
- obviously specious
- long and increasingly bitter
- clearly specious
- tiresome theological
- old and long-running
- logical but solemn
- endless and probably unsuccessful
- jesuitical and sophisticated
- absolutely unanswerable
- excellent knock-down
- unanswerable female
- clever skeptical
- pointless and repetitive
- common eugenic
- seemingly compelling
- impeccable, logical
- considerable loud
- interminable jesuitical
- last fatuous
- awfully compelling
- intricate or profound
- wretched logical
- bitter and perhaps hysterical
- sane and convincing
- loud, acrimonious
- seemingly unsophisticated
- legal and psychological
- lengthy and rigorous
- down-home, pragmatic
- sober and logical
- seductively eloquent
- cramped and cautious
- long and utterly futile
- famous ontological
- trenchant and convincing
- weak and tortuous
- heathen, philosophic
- wholly specious
- meritorious, many
- complete and ironclad
- countless specious
- good concise
- feeble and partly erroneous
- latest decent
- tempting and convincing
- eternal modern
- bald and feeble
- stronger historic
- conclusive good
- loud and equal
- plausible philosophical
- brisk mathematical
- diffuse and unconnected
- long and markedly irrelevant
- silent but fierce
- luminous platonic
- adverse and powerful
- convenient and perfectly justifiable
- long and practical
- sharp or warm
- so-called ontological
- appeal and powerful
- academic and idle
- denial or general
- simplest economical
- chief and most solid
- truly compelling
- home-market
- studious, higher
- pithy, common-sense
- simplest and most unanswerable
- ridiculous, fruitless
- long and unproductive
- long and contradictory
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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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