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 statesmanship
Below is a list of describing words for statesmanship. 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 statesmanship:
- marvelous latter-day
- serviceable and enlightened
- discreet, practical
- truly wise and honest
- profound and watchful
- broad and courageous
- constructive and democratic
- clever and conciliatory
- far-sighted and native
- astute and calm
- wary and tactful
- tolerant, constructive
- stern and audacious
- barren and provincial
- wise constructive
- broad, optimistic
- broadest theoretical
- disinterested, comprehensive
- wise missionary
- conspicuously courageous and honorable
- wisest and most tolerant
- courageous spiritual
- earlier patriotic
- equally virile
- recklessly tyrannical
- practical, administrative
- good-will and constructive
- constructive judicial
- noblest judicial
- lazy or ignorant
- patriotic liberal
- genuine, enlightened
- profound and constructive
- traditional, british
- pure secular
- wonderful and consummate
- highest and most brilliant
- humane and unselfish
- bold and competent
- enlightened, patriotic
- calm and brave
- peaceful and constructive
- conspicuously courageous
- wise and constructive
- real constructive
- better southern
- discreet and progressive
- broad, wise
- highest constructive
- wise and lofty
- high and enlightened
- original and constructive
- courageous and honorable
- much adroit
- frank and courageous
- highest and most profound
- practical and humane
- wisest and most disinterested
- high philosophic
- broad and far-sighted
- constructive and progressive
- enlightened and philanthropic
- wide and far-reaching
- fair and deliberate
- consistent and steady
- german overseas
- daring and unconventional
- british liberal
- profound and delicate
- genuine and profound
- womanly
- least thoughtful
- high national
- spanish or italian
- brilliant creative
- new and desirable
- wise and practical
- wise and honest
- little wise
- rather belated
- lofty ideal
- german domestic
- such incompetent
- own skilful
- progressive and constructive
- noble and candid
- constructive
- practical and constructive
- same energetic
- highest practical
- cautious and wary
- sufficient practical
- enlightened and generous
- truly wise
- truly practical
- bold and generous
- modern parliamentary
- able and patriotic
- thorough and comprehensive
- careful and impartial
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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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