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 exception
Below is a list of describing words for exception. 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 exception:
- sole awkward
- canonical and authentic
- single dubious
- solitary and somewhat gratuitous
- slight but curious
- shadowy metaphysical
- rare and purely accidental
- singular and brief
- possible lone
- strongest and understandable
- notable, noble
- previous notable
- strangely logical
- venial and particular
- specifically morbid
- abnormal and specifically morbid
- late and doubtful
- single inconsiderable
- above-mentioned british
- solitary and bright
- single, one-time
- curious single
- strongest apparent
- additional, glaring
- long-standing journalistic
- solitary and recent
- startling and highly dramatic
- single and illustrious
- particular and unreasonable
- slight and apparent
- notable apparent
- rare and generally unfortunate
- momentary obscure
- greater etymological
- single and strange
- possible and extremely doubtful
- eternal and almost unnecessary
- magnificent and unquestionable
- partial and very limited
- irrevocable, prolific
- single degraded
- signal and fatal
- possible partial
- rare and temporary
- solitary and signal
- splendid and notable
- partial and dubious
- doubtful and dubious
- great intractable
- single tacit
- single and fatal
- solitary and absolute
- solitary and disgraceful
- single but prosperous
- severe and secular
- wholly culpable
- possible or passable
- rare and undesirable
- bright and truly honorable
- single and partial
- immediate and articulate
- single and significant
- valid and visible
- single but important
- great or even sole
- notable and very honorable
- modern authoritative
- scarcely welcome
- single and remarkable
- sole and conspicuous
- brilliant and salient
- single notable
- single and important
- single doubtful
- truly emotional
- odd partial
- somewhat gratuitous
- single, notable
- singular and felicitous
- single and quite excusable
- conspicuous and perhaps humorous
- perhaps humorous
- possible curious
- serious fucken
- happy and perhaps unique
- notable and worrisome
- individual apparent
- single momentary
- singularly inconsistent
- memorable and almost awful
- solitary and monstrous
- usual proverbial
- sole prominent
- singular apparent
- signal and most significant
- recent illustrious
- brilliant and outstanding
- absolute and unaccountable
- awful hideous
- possible doubtful
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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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