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 thoroughness
Below is a list of describing words for thoroughness. 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 thoroughness:
- complete and callous
- brutally impersonal
- gentle but purposeful
- methodical and startling
- proverbial german
- same unmatched
- quiet but characteristic
- appalling and devastating
- quite germanic
- contrary greater
- well-known pedantic
- stern but sober
- characteristic scientific
- grimly gentle
- laudable and painstaking
- extraordinary and ever-increasing
- humorous and wholly serious
- indefatigable, painstaking
- minutely scientific
- orderly progressive
- regular teutonic
- methodical, meticulous
- otherwise energetic
- severe categorical
- monomania-cal
- methodical, terrifying
- usual near-mystical
- candid, scientific
- characteristic teutonic
- decidedly indelicate
- vicious, angry
- horrible scientific
- calm persistent
- usual exhaustive
- mono-maniacal
- such vindictive
- gentle, impersonal
- apparently transparent
- typical teutonic
- almost naval
- exhaustive analytical
- characteristic german
- typically teutonic
- quiet, conscientious
- usual teutonic
- normal scientific
- typical germanic
- rapid, rough
- scientific and successful
- peculiar grave
- equal scientific
- same disconcerting
- brisk, professional
- swift and brutal
- quick and smart
- same methodical
- same meticulous
- typical swedish
- wholly serious
- near-mystical
- terrible german
- general scientific
- usual german
- typical swiss
- such unnecessary
- successful german
- such exhaustive
- highly commendable
- same unrelenting
- such comprehensive
- truly german
- such painstaking
- true dutch
- true german
- such persistent
- such sloppy
- such conscientious
- somewhat drastic
- typical german
- painstaking
- such efficient
- such clever
- machinelike
- such morbid
- teutonic
- almost obscene
- such drastic
- such brutal
- monomaniacal
- rather excessive
- such magical
- workmanlike
- all-out
- unhurried
- fine german
- same brutal
- methodical
- conscientious
- unenthusiastic
- such handsome
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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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