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 encroachments
Below is a list of describing words for encroachments. 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 encroachments:
- steady and stealthy
- operations--gradual
- loss--gradual
- great loss--gradual
- hostile and bloody
- incessant and covert
- further continental
- piecemeal individual
- wrong and british
- royal or feudal
- avowed and appalling
- fateful british
- continual french
- south--gradual
- extensive and entirely unjustifiable
- slow and rather uneventful
- palpable and intolerable
- silent, incessant
- continual and insidious
- wanton and daring
- daily deeper
- small and successive
- nonfocal
- tragically slow
- diffuse, nonfocal
- imperial and feudal
- ill-advised and uneconomic
- steady and subtle
- excessive and inappropriate
- unjust and overbearing
- general, regular
- late, innumerable
- insidious and constant
- new and unjust
- abominable and ungrateful
- excess and new
- almost deeper
- successive and regular
- further white
- soft and dubious
- insidious and gradual
- similar papal
- deliberate and constant
- many unwarrantable
- insidious and malignant
- insolent and dangerous
- palpable, deliberate
- totally unjustifiable
- slow and fatal
- unconstitutional and illegal
- old nasty
- further unauthorized
- further territorial
- further austrian
- gradual and steady
- continual and rapid
- papal and ecclesiastical
- old ministerial
- entirely unjustifiable
- certain vexatious
- same unjust
- slow, insidious
- seemingly minor
- other successive
- rather uneventful
- gradual and silent
- other infamous
- despotical
- slow but inexorable
- new territorial
- gradual
- more insidious
- rather sordid
- merely physical
- apparently arbitrary
- own common
- further such
- ever fresh
- certain recent
- slow and gradual
- such intolerable
- numbing
- next oldest
- unjustifiable
- uneconomic
- insidious
- further military
- papal
- unconstitutional
- mere military
- democratical
- other artificial
- unwarrantable
- frosty
- many grievous
- little pleasant
- unjust
- such rapid
- sporadic
- more numerous
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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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