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 foundations
Below is a list of describing words for foundations. 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 foundations:
- secret second
- unknown second
- sure and substantial
- sufficiently broad and deep
- flat and very thin
- mysterious second
- big-bucks private
- clandestine second
- maybe reasonable
- basic and divine
- hitherto opaque
- rational and sure
- brand-new speculative
- worldwide, unassailable
- permanently sour and hard
- sour and hard
- rocklike coral
- deep and immemorial
- impossibly scarlet
- sure and deep
- excellent progenitorial
- everlasting thy
- former humanistic
- firmer financial
- cold and decayed
- humble, material
- non-profit cultural
- new, practicable
- weak and unsubstantial
- primary and single
- sturdily immovable
- never deceptive
- clear and stable
- solid and never deceptive
- deepest and best-laid
- sure and unassailable
- liquid and slippery
- firmer legal
- primitive and appropriate
- broad and unassailable
- permanently sure
- unassailable administrative
- casual or fabulous
- vain and rotten
- artificial, casual or fabulous
- sandy and vain
- commonly generous
- unseen and unappreciated
- strong, sure and deep
- sunshiny and broad
- vaulting, massive
- historical or ideal
- airy, romantic
- great and impregnable
- uncertain and flimsy
- logical and solid
- deeper, broader and stronger
- sacred, unalterable
- reasonable and well-advised
- mighty capitalist
- defective empirical
- slight tottering
- precarious speculative
- new and unshakable
- vague biographical
- slight and narrow
- large and chief
- progenitorial
- broad and sure
- appallingly weak
- loose and pragmatic
- solid, oversized
- strong second
- permanently solid and hard
- nonprofit religious
- squared and substantial
- slightest factual
- fitly squared and substantial
- empirical nor theoretical
- fitly squared
- imperial chartered
- ultimate and unquestionable
- certain and distinctive
- obscure but gigantic
- solid ethical
- human or religious
- charitable and cultural
- together phantasmal
- sure and healthy
- shredded, filmy
- rotten and ruinous
- mythical and social
- sandy and rotten
- insecure and doubtful
- royal and ample
- advantageous and sure
- inefficient and unsound
- semitic-cosmological
- ancient and well-endowed
- mighty and immovable
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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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