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 pretences
Below is a list of describing words for pretences. 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 pretences:
- ambitious and bloody
- tee-total false
- false scientific
- trifling and shameless
- despicably trifling and shameless
- despicably trifling
- slightest and most unreasonable
- pretences--utterly false
- tortuous parliamentary
- artful false
- heartless and unworthy
- frivolous or extravagant
- incredibly flimsy
- historical false
- intermediate and hypocritical
- hollow sentimental
- vain, groundless
- plausible but hollow
- same, false
- specious but false
- gross false
- frivolous and evidently feigned
- shallow, false
- slight and absurd
- various but false
- vain and fraudulent
- farcical and mere
- paltry and transparent
- extravagant and unconstitutional
- deceitful fair
- ambiguous and frivolous
- shallow false
- trivial and absurd
- absurd and frivolous
- harmless theatrical
- puseyitical
- thereby different
- slight or false
- inconceivably impudent
- incredible romantic
- merely false
- somewhat false
- impudently false
- sundry false
- cruel, false
- basically false
- frivolous and absurd
- same plausible
- such insincere
- many, fair
- sweet and fine
- mighty educational
- evidently feigned
- less hypocritical
- false and vain
- decent and useful
- scientific and sociological
- cold and frivolous
- fair and smooth
- forth false
- wholly false
- social and civic
- false social
- frivolous and senseless
- false
- own unparalleled
- ridiculous false
- greedy and ambitious
- best mere
- frivolous and vexatious
- philanthropic and benevolent
- mere frivolous
- false and hypocritical
- ordinary decent
- many specious
- various trifling
- specious
- various absurd
- best colored
- such unauthorized
- various ingenious
- general vague
- more specious
- absolutely false
- more hollow
- other shallow
- other frivolous
- mere hollow
- less justifiable
- many plausible
- more false
- various false
- such shallow
- such plausible
- philosophical or theological
- frivolous
- mere false
- transparent little
- many unnecessary
- plausible
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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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