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 consequence
Below is a list of describing words for consequence. 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 consequence:
- physically necessary
- strategic and historic
- inevitable and most welcome
- invariable and dangerous
- paltry poor
- terribly obvious
- direct and very natural
- unforseen political
- clear inevitable
- possible rheumatic
- natural and even immediate
- well-known and frequent
- immediate and picturesque
- viewless and invisible
- incalculable cryptic
- simple, unanticipated
- accurately proportionate
- outward temporal
- additional, brutal
- menacing and dangerous
- same corrective
- necessary or contingent
- abnormal, accidental
- probable temporal
- first-rate economic
- ultimate and most natural
- greatest endless
- inevitable and probably rapid
- unseen but vital
- least prejudicial
- direct and unavoidable
- natural and prevalent
- other unthinkable
- scant geological
- unexpected but logical
- predictable and tragic
- main negative
- maybe necessary
- dreadful, unforeseen
- unavoidable general
- necessary and infallible
- extensive bad
- unsocial or unnatural
- graver economic
- twin sociological
- natural but temporary
- consistent, logical
- else inevitable
- mysterious overwhelming
- natural or probable
- equally calamitous
- professedly necessary
- inevitable and praiseworthy
- permanently serious
- necessary and almost inevitable
- necessary and native
- well-nigh unavoidable
- necessary and quite inevitable
- rigorously necessary
- necessary and physical
- relatively transient
- whimsical and mischievous
- normal, inevitable
- temporally disastrous
- logical and undeniable
- unmistakably logical
- ultimate but unmistakably logical
- latent and indirect
- usually accurate and trustworthy
- less momentary
- vital, far-reaching
- invariably diminutive
- invariably diminutive and contemptible
- disagreeable and perhaps fatal
- sure and general
- hitherto certain
- obvious and hitherto certain
- fatal or bad
- strictly unessential
- secondary and strictly unessential
- disastrous, treacherous
- natural and well-deserved
- earliest bad
- divine, necessary
- immediate and inseparable
- well-known and unavoidable
- tardy and logical
- grievous but unavoidable
- interesting direct
- slight or partial
- farther plain
- indirect but happy
- decisive final
- likeliest immediate
- rather unnateral
- nateral or rather unnateral
- vital and revolutionary
- serious, vital and revolutionary
- natural but embarrassing
- selectively necessary
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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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