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 inheritance
Below is a list of describing words for inheritance. 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 inheritance:
- classical genetic
- independent and perpetual
- private and perpetual
- precious environmental
- sexually limited
- better inborn
- small but legitimate
- modest but spiritual
- perilous and unenviable
- eternal and sure
- subsequent and valuable
- comfortable paternal
- savage and almost animal
- ancient and wide
- ancient biochemical
- natural and unalienable
- constant and carefree
- hothouse and belgian
- already thine
- sorely oppressive
- rich and responsible
- mere true
- single, uncluttered
- small but unshakable
- complex and deep-rooted
- equally complex and deep-rooted
- stupid, atavistic
- legal or ancestral
- extremely slow and slight
- bestial and barbarous
- priceless eternal
- _biological and social
- priceless architectural
- organic magnificent
- originally ample
- sad and unalienable
- thoroughgoing real
- innocent, unenviable
- splendid but troublesome
- sole and natural
- beautiful archaic
- choicest temporal
- vast, unexpected
- unique double
- direct babylonian
- eternal and incorruptible
- personal, present
- glorious and unspeakable
- once-substantial
- priceless genetic
- potential and bestial
- global cultural
- own sizeable
- >ducal
- unwelcome but necessary
- genetic criminal
- proud and promising
- british martial
- absurd and unscientific
- intrinsic psychic
- huge unconscious
- undivided spanish
- little unstable
- eternal and blissful
- natural lineal
- already opulent
- rightful and rich
- whole paternal
- mock thine
- inevitable and unavoidable
- scientific, literary and aesthetic
- spanish racial
- frequently direct
- desirable italian
- legal male
- moderate but ancient
- sexual and seasonal
- small paternal
- common and precious
- racial or social
- strongest spiritual
- present inevitable
- good biological
- common glorious
- mortal poor
- ancient and perpetual
- unexpected and pleasing
- amazing musical
- small patrimonial
- specific simple
- vast asiatic
- precious cultural
- apparent genetic
- convoluted genetic
- original indonesian
- native cultural
- classical multifactorial
- strictly monetary
- heavy, progressive
- intrinsic psychical
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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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