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 solutions
Below is a list of describing words for solutions. 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 solutions:
- sensible and most humane
- awesome trial
- weed-killing
- simple and rather amusing
- hypothetical singular
- logical and literal
- neutral and alkaline
- alcoholic or ethereal
- planetary partial
- neat general
- practical long-term
- aqueous or alcoholic
- insane, schizoid
- murderous and final
- comprehensive and sophisticated
- together temporary
- many optimal
- completely ineffectual and several
- aqueous and gaseous
- =--colloidal
- wireless mobile
- clear chemical
- alkaline and neutral
- lurid or melodramatic
- constructive and long-term
- eventual specific
- simplistic or extreme
- standard twentieth-century
- specious and respectful
- easiest apparent
- clear alcoholic
- impure aqueous
- identically incorrect
- highly rationalistic
- proper nutrient
- equally new and radical
- accidental and irrelevant
- direct, decisive
- effective and ingenious
- neat biological
- humane, equitable
- hundredth-normal
- colorfully idiosyncratic
- primary hot
- bizarre and colorfully idiosyncratic
- old-fashioned final
- clever and elegant
- faintly brownish
- revolting biological
- partial and very sinister
- approximately tenth-normal
- neutral aqueous
- ordinary aqueous
- dark, queer
- practical pedagogical
- clear mineral
- consciously temporary
- `sub-optimal
- also `sub-optimal
- inevitable practical
- alcoholic colloidal
- alcoholic and alkaline
- upper or murial
- lower or aqueous
- simple, ruthless
- entirely elegant
- alkaline or neutral
- strong aqueous
- bitter and better
- hopeful easy
- long-range rational
- clear and outstanding
- pleasing, unambiguous
- cheap, magical
- say-chemical
- practical and remote
- few clean-cut
- simple, merciful
- completely ineffectual
- preferential but sceptical
- brilliant, emotional
- swiftest and most elegant
- disheartening and unsatisfactory
- logical, elegant
- colloidal or true
- psychopathically elegant
- distinct and incongruous
- stable and generally beneficial
- permanently glutinous
- perfect bureaucratic
- alkaline and soapy
- conclusive and pin-point
- weakest permissible
- exotic but stable
- stronger tan
- imperfect opalescent
- sometimes coercive
- cold antiseptic
- rigid and sometimes coercive
- intricate and often impossible
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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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