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 execution
Below is a list of describing words for execution. 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 execution:
- fatally careless
- excellent and swift
- stable and protracted
- messy public
- tardy or imperfect
- pompous and dramatic
- remarkably gory
- corrupt or perfidious
- trial and immediate
- fair, scientific
- cautious and painstaking
- clean, public
- miserable and public
- original and second-hand
- punctual and candid
- mannered linear
- inconceivably sudden
- brilliant but faulty
- typically scatterbrained
- rapid and unyielding
- deft poetic
- dramatically painful
- undisturbed and methodical
- universal, methodical
- rapid and faithful
- immediate and plenary
- brilliant instrumental
- impartial and perfect
- faithful moral
- unskilled technical
- wisely original
- fruitful and facile
- trial and possible
- legal triple
- regular and peaceable
- eventual efficient
- utterly premeditated
- ‘ritual
- trial and certain
- rapid and unjust
- ill-timed or partial
- trial and murderous
- actual and vigorous
- individual and almost dramatic
- immediate and faithful
- superficial but agreeable
- somewhat hard and cold
- last and positively final
- due and vigorous
- horrid and indiscriminate
- wonderfully crisp and buoyant
- well-planned independent
- brilliantly fluent
- pains-taking and slow
- guilty, immediate
- fatal and too hasty
- brilliant and superficial
- tolerably skilful and accurate
- probably unjust
- singularly perfect and ripe
- fitting and successful
- mannered and artificial
- somewhat mannered and artificial
- rigorous and impartial
- neat and clean-cut
- easy and mechanical
- easy and beneficial
- full and severe
- public and particularly cruel
- sweetest and most impressive
- secret, royal
- easy and skillful
- faultless mechanical
- always large and coarse
- hasty or imperfect
- general keen
- loose and seemingly careless
- decisive and swift
- particularly bloody and barbarous
- singularly bold and keen
- mysterious and apparently uncertain
- alike remarkable and worthy
- alike remarkable
- last, public
- still rude and unequal
- accurate and chaste
- appalling academic
- trial and illegal
- somewhat stiff and dry
- effective and scientific
- trial and impending
- astonishingly vigorous and spirited
- quiet thorough
- indeed brilliant and remarkable
- curiously inferior
- necessary, rightful
- peculiarly fine and vigorous
- curious or voluptuous
- merely curious or voluptuous
- essential, actual
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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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