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 experiments
Below is a list of describing words for experiments. 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 experiments:
- frighteningly elegant and subtle
- frighteningly elegant
- endiometrical
- few endiometrical
- stunning scientific
- electrical and galvanic
- painstaking and exhaustive
- senseless and bizarre
- laborious and exact
- separate and foregone
- valuable socio-cultural
- exact, thorough
- exotic and successful
- difficult delicate
- bio-structural
- previously unplanned
- terrible, implausible
- military genetic
- quite practical and simple
- slight clandestine
- psychological literary
- asthronomical
- similar asthronomical
- newfangled philosophical
- bizarre intellectual
- zero-gravity industrial
- illegal scientific
- exacting and wearisome
- essential, high-tech
- recent, beautiful
- diabolical extraterrestrial
- luminous physiological
- huge and rather ludicrous
- repeatedly successful
- ill-advised zoological
- sudden and apparently successful
- grand and intoxicating
- well-nigh humiliating
- hasty, trial
- disastrous and well-nigh humiliating
- ludicrous psychological
- genetic-social
- western genetic-engineering
- crazy, unsafe
- dubious anatomical
- curious but innocent
- illegal psychological
- lurid and desperate
- late promising
- scientific government-sponsored
- past psychological
- fatal magical
- substantial and noble
- always available and easy
- rather involuntary
- startling biosocial
- daring chemical
- unique sociopolitical
- successful telepathic
- beautiful economic
- charming electrical
- demonic social
- delicate and daring
- universal, indubitable
- oft-repeated astronomical
- successful sociological
- terrrestrial
- fearful and untried
- admirable--moral
- brief chemical
- light--typical
- enterprising but unfortunate
- fearful and successful
- ingenious alphabetical
- sufficiently difficult and hazardous
- heavily subsidized
- anthropological and social
- human magical
- hazardous medical
- monstrous, sinister
- fierce and ludicrous
- several economical
- disastrous zoological
- own botanical
- interesting but ultimately unsuccessful
- cute-animal
- humane and reverent
- convenient, separate
- cool-headed clinical
- larger, louder
- vast, planetary
- long-range psychological
- brutally naive
- private skill
- talented but useless
- grotesque medical
- thrilling and amazing
- rare and controversial
- literary, intellectual and religious
- disastrous sleepless
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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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