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 interpreters
Below is a list of describing words for interpreters. 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 interpreters:
- dreams--official
- sweeter or truer
- right-wing and left-wing
- chief and missionary
- own and best
- several prosaic
- sole, minor
- critical and mythical
- fantastically bearded
- jewish and rationalistic
- deformed japanese
- last adequate
- able or happy
- _litteral
- dazed, silent
- poor and tardy
- not-quite-official
- untrustworthy portuguese
- skillful realistic
- skilful or most confident
- eloquent and truthful
- truthful and intelligible
- officious, inefficient
- handy anglo-french
- ideal and accurate
- well ancient
- good and exact
- shallow but utterly ignorant
- reverential and sympathetic
- sweet and indefinable
- adequate imaginative
- superb and thrilling
- good ambidextrous
- captive tartar
- scant true
- conscientious jewish
- childlike, wise
- faithful and shrewd
- sincere but too feeble
- luminous and brave
- inadequate but sincere
- ready and excellent
- stentorian and impressive
- cool and unbiased
- jewish armenian
- least slavish
- cheap and faithful
- brilliant but incoherent
- valiant and joyous
- several rationalistic
- vivid and permanent
- sole authoritative
- conscientious and idealistic
- interested or envious
- false and oppressive
- skilful and laborious
- capable and confidential
- rascally official
- least joint
- talented fictional
- also superb and thrilling
- subtle and most musical
- best-known pictorial
- great infallible
- convincing and eloquent
- holiest and powerful
- strongest and most far-reaching
- cold and coarse
- charmingly humorous
- sympathetic dramatic
- familiar and luminous
- recent and acute
- greatest pictorial
- scientific economic
- dynamic, forceful
- sincere and useful
- uniformed french
- outstanding historical
- unspeakable human
- former, many
- old-fashioned diplomatic
- also superb
- especially observant
- earliest pictorial
- best tagal
- best and most essential
- proper and sole
- skilful and ingenious
- ignorant and immoral
- sole reliable
- grand hereditary
- finest contemporary
- trustworthy and faithful
- powerful poetical
- many abler
- excellent oral
- ripe and ready
- faithful german
- dumb but eloquent
- reliable and useful
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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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