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 practicing
Below is a list of describing words for practicing. 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 practicing:
- perhaps macabre
- bizarre and perhaps macabre
- lucrative medical
- concurrent, unbroken
- good fiscal
- standard anthropological
- monstrous, obscene
- particularly wet and muddy
- common and most unphilosophical
- gross rich
- good anthropological
- odious, abhorrent
- moderately expectant
- lawful and constant
- standard and open
- odious and criminal
- playful but objectionable
- dangerous and sinful
- accurate and constant
- possibly long and tedious
- else invariable
- hospital and outdoor
- natural and present
- pagan and abominable
- frequent, disturbing
- generally inadvisable
- solid private
- primitive, unhealthy
- harsh, unremitting
- common but foolish
- traditional communist
- secret ancestral
- indeed convenient and popular
- dangerous and demeaning
- successful and lucrative
- subsequent galactic
- loquacious, good
- lunar legal
- late unforeseen
- frequent maternal
- daily systematic
- savage magical
- mischievous or absurd
- medical and pharmacal
- simpler and bolder
- ignoble european
- invariable modern
- extensive provincial
- old-fashioned commercial
- inadequate agricultural
- diplomatic sharp
- decent and praiseworthy
- small but remunerative
- continual and constant
- sudden and impious
- hospital and private
- usual horological
- before-school
- few, tentative
- sufficient surreptitious
- measly small-town
- relatively widespread
- egregiously wasteful
- own psychiatric
- efficient and fundamentally unsafe
- fundamentally unsafe
- common and mischievous
- small psychiatric
- similar dietary
- traitorous or mutinous
- perfectly canonical
- questionable technical
- reprehensible and dangerous
- peaceful and skilful
- shadowy counterfeit
- common inter-tribal
- vulgar and routine
- criminal and inhuman
- usual and salient
- unnatural and baneful
- alluring but pernicious
- modern & best
- often lame and crooked
- ruinous and degrading
- trifling common
- previous grammatical
- immoral or disreputable
- constant and commendable
- diatetical
- excessive and wearisome
- mental malicious
- unannounced mental
- mal and corrupt
- filthy but not uncommon
- economical and beneficial
- legal sharp
- repulsive devotional
- naturally dishonorable
- reluctant but constant
- exciting but barbarous
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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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