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 system
Below is a list of describing words for system. 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 system:
- above-average urban
- equitable political
- entire nervous
- portuguese legal
- central data-storage
- underdeveloped and outmoded
- dutch legal
- plural political
- own sidereal
- whole nervous
- human nervous
- autonomous nervous
- oral adversarial
- entire circulatory
- sparse and limited
- central nervous
- whole solar
- extra-central
- _legal
- outer solar
- inner solar
- well-developed financial
- entire solar
- sympathetic nervous
- unknown solar
- generous and prosperous
- empty solar
- danish legal
- deranged nervous
- disgraceful, inhuman
- extensive redundant
- democratic, federal-state
- autocratic socialist
- market-oriented economic
- secondary digestive
- defence-critical
- totally automatic
- sluggish nervous
- vast postal
- present socio-economic
- basic entrepreneurial
- automatic domestic
- industrial protective
- whole arterial
- own solar
- easy extra-factual
- simple battery-operated
- open dynamical
- �external digestive
- better nervous
- undeveloped nervous
- versatile electronic
- obstinately pacific
- alpha, total
- splendid nervous
- southern legal
- whole vascular
- autonomic nervous
- indirect, long-distance
- admirable and wisest
- approval legal
- assembly legal
- weak educational
- far-flung solar
- planetary educational
- new and unprecedently sophisticated
- wisest and surest
- strong presidential
- centralized judicial
- sinless moral
- competitive market-based
- peripheral nervous
- own public-address
- anal legal
- whole five-hundred-year-old
- obscure planetary
- cranky electrical
- peaceful solar
- one-man feudal
- humanistic, monastic
- alien nervous
- inner stellar
- severely underdeveloped and outmoded
- severely underdeveloped
- entire arterial
- french legal
- distant solar
- miniature solar
- socialist economic
- democratic and vicious
- good immune
- widespread nervous
- substandard computerized
- ancestral solar
- own neuromuscular
- worst postal
- brand-new ecological
- frightful and clandestine
- singular nutritive
- immense planetary
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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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