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 dissertation
Below is a list of describing words for dissertation. 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 dissertation:
- unpublished doctoral
- own doctoral
- subsequent eccentric
- beautiful academical
- lengthy and pedantic
- gay and vigorous
- doleful, philosophical
- alphabetical and classical
- luminous and graceful
- brilliant doctoral
- ingenious preliminary
- great doctoral
- copious and fluent
- chrono-logical
- long and still valuable
- long and somewhat imaginative
- theological, political and moral
- long and extremely bitter
- pathologico-psychological
- whole pathologico-psychological
- voluminous philosophical
- languid and academical
- eloquently persuasive
- luminous or edifying
- exhaustive and admirable
- dead, insipid
- long heraldic
- lengthy and profound
- _anticritical
- authorship--academical
- lengthy and highly technical
- poignantly ironical
- doctoral
- short and conclusive
- _inaugural
- full introductory
- occasional erudite
- long and very curious
- elegant and erudite
- long biographical
- comprehensive doctoral
- long and academic
- refreshingly short and succinct
- refreshingly short
- old doctoral
- ultra mathematical
- doctoral
- long, rhapsodic
- profound craniological
- copious preliminary
- long and fastidious
- archæological and philological
- brief physiological
- exquisitely classical
- surprisingly innocuous
- acute and elegant
- vague, gloomy
- long and interested
- theological and physical
- ingenious historical
- curious preliminary
- long and fluent
- comprehensive and well-organized
- long geographical
- arch�ological and philological
- savagely humorous
- plain and startling
- curious philosophical
- acute and eloquent
- complete and laborious
- long and convincing
- subsequent philosophic
- inaugural
- long mathematical
- long, prosy
- rather wordy
- brief comprehensive
- long and comprehensive
- apparently futile
- strangely primitive
- general introductory
- eloquent and ingenious
- almost exhaustive
- _critical
- long speculative
- keen and animated
- able and comprehensive
- ingenious and elegant
- long philosophical
- brief and unsatisfactory
- brief but eloquent
- archaeological and philological
- brief and inadequate
- excellent philosophical
- able and judicious
- rather prosy
- vigorous and original
- singularly curious
- single medical
- clear and intelligent
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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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