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 praises
Below is a list of describing words for praises. 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 praises:
- gratuitous and probably unjustified
- trite and lavish
- mindless, demonic
- involuntary and indirect
- female mellow
- rational and glorious
- warm and partial
- probably unjustified
- unintelligible but unmistakable
- purest and most fervent
- blasphemous and flattering
- lavish critical
- extravagant and persistent
- forth official
- loud, eternal
- unqualified and grateful
- loud indiscriminating
- devastatingly sarcastic
- high, unqualified
- everlasting and notable
- consequent grateful
- fair exalted
- outrageously dishonest
- generous past
- unjustifiedly high
- short but amply sufficient
- extravagant bombastic
- heartiest and most unequivocal
- ymmortal
- fond thy
- least unalloyed
- still coeval
- high and sufficient
- honest and commemorative
- this--eternal and universal
- intelligent and fervent
- cool and limited
- enthusiastic and unexpected
- forth exuberant
- most vehement
- trial, hollow
- vague indiscriminate
- loudest and most enthusiastic
- hearty and childlike
- lavish and imprudent
- patriotic, great
- sincere and voluntary
- requisite lavish
- enthusiastic critical
- lavish absurd
- almost sycophantic
- much nor too sudden
- venal vain
- unanimous and vehement
- exact cordial
- undeserved or unseasonable
- idle and boastful
- lawful, well-deserved
- hardy atheist
- popular or general
- absurdly faint
- much mournful
- vague and colorless
- manfully sympathetic
- priceless and imperishable
- generally extravagant
- generous but discerning
- hyberbolical
- gross and indiscriminating
- exuberant editorial
- conventionally paternal
- ready, heartfelt
- fervent universal
- unrestrained and inappropriate
- cordial and unalloyed
- equally unfounded and empty
- much or too fervent
- aggressive false
- also superlative
- faint and commonplace
- vain and tasteless
- languid, indiscriminating
- honest unaffected
- ardent, cheerful
- forth premature
- inarticulate and unintended
- freely pronouncing
- generous and even extravagant
- exciting enthusiastic
- much unqualified
- frequent and ostentatious
- splendidly sober
- energetic and unqualified
- extraordinary or even mediocre
- elegant and fervent
- emphatic and reverent
- extravagant and almost incredible
- scant and petty
- warm and well-deserved
- absolutely earliest
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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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