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 tutor
Below is a list of describing words for tutor. 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 tutor:
- bilingual french
- indelicate disturbing
- generous and dear
- lean private
- dyspeptic, half-starved
- pleasant and skilful
- benevolent and indulgent
- scrawny, petulant
- hard exacting
- skilled but idle
- high-toned private
- unhappy but conscientious
- probably irritable
- successively classical
- merely intelligent and virtuous
- excellent and well-informed
- later senior
- well-known clerical
- eligible french
- inexorable republican
- indulgent and too simple
- itinerant private
- puritanical private
- uncouth and extremely undeveloped
- extremely undeveloped
- gifted blind
- hard-working, uneventful
- fanatical private
- principal or theological
- beloved female
- nervous private
- chief magical
- fancy british
- inflexible and joyless
- laborious but uninspired
- disagreeable private
- clerical private
- wise and artful
- private jewish
- ridiculous, awkward
- senior or classical
- strong and lovable
- young and very intellectual
- afterwards french
- plump red-faced
- old vigilant
- well-informed private
- silent german
- stern and implacable
- passionate and exacting
- effective private
- private philosophic
- late private
- revolutionary young
- former worthy
- mere salaried
- vehement young
- young private
- good-looking irish
- most estimable
- particularly astute
- popular private
- classical and philological
- gentle and beloved
- po-tential
- overly pale
- conscientious and affectionate
- formerly french
- once private
- formerly private
- exceptionally subtle
- somewhat obsequious
- personal online
- former tyrannical
- equally busy
- late theological
- poor private
- special mathematical
- merely intelligent
- excellent practical
- highly salaried
- _theological
- afterwards private
- well-known private
- early perpendicular
- present senior
- regular chinese
- competent private
- almost fancy
- old botanical
- fair, fat
- severe young
- able and gifted
- unknown and obscure
- strange french
- intelligent and virtuous
- less irksome
- wrong bloody
- good gaelic
- able and brilliant
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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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