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 falsehood
Below is a list of describing words for falsehood. 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 falsehood:
- pitiful, deliberate
- apparent and unconquerable
- palpable, monstrous
- serviceable and indeed courageous
- indeed courageous
- hackneyed, old
- foolish and transparent
- useless and apparent
- hackneyed nonsensical
- virtuous, faithful and generous
- neat, frosty
- infamous and glaring
- petty and ridiculous
- unworthy and purposeless
- intolerable and monstrous
- downright premeditated
- flagrant and stupid
- circumstantial self-evident
- consequently utter
- presentable and passable
- grotesque and deliberate
- absolute and revolting
- deliberate and unconvincing
- unintentional and wholly innocent
- inadvertent and deliberate
- utter loquacious
- deliberate and skilful
- monstrous and obvious
- clumsy and unnecessary
- deliberate and interested
- deliberate, brutal
- glaring and malicious
- palpable, glaring and malicious
- ready and reckless
- persistent, unblushing
- sad, deliberate
- palpable but unconscious
- audacious and reckless
- monstrous, odious
- shameful, malicious
- cruel, willful
- +--universal
- gross and egregious
- wicked, insidious
- perpetual conventional
- definite or avoidable
- doleful and improbable
- crafty treacherous
- previous mute
- deliberate, scandalous
- habitual and unblushing
- fatal far-reaching
- sheer and audacious
- recent glib
- mischievous and scandalous
- selfish and contemptible
- particularly flimsy
- implicit or actual
- futile, obsequious
- utter direct
- pitiful and ludicrous
- notorious and unfounded
- able thy
- malicious or mercenary
- low, disreputable
- worse, extreme
- foul, indecent
- audacious and cruel
- pleasantly colored
- much horrible
- ridiculous and patently untrue
- absolute and evil
- indeed diplomatic
- malicious and malignant
- hideous and homicidal
- generous and perhaps weak
- unnatural and clumsy
- vile, slanderous
- open palpable
- last profane
- circumstantial and picturesque
- direct and premeditated
- infamous and slanderous
- absurd, improbable
- gross and mischievous
- facile little
- stale and hackneyed
- palpable and self-evident
- merely malicious
- foul, abominable
- audacious and deliberate
- next occasional
- foul and villainous
- hypocritical and wholly needless
- infamous and scurrilous
- special and unmistakable
- gross, unblushing
- deliberate and malignant
- monstrous practical
- odious and atrocious
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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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