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 account
Below is a list of describing words for account. 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 account:
- comprehensive and readable
- quick and fairly honest
- sizable current
- elaborately wretched
- exact, careful
- almost day-by-day
- true and tragical
- interesting and lucid
- full and particular
- fiscal and current
- full, true and particular
- concise and sympathetic
- vivid and scientific
- simple and unintelligible
- faithful and very surprising
- factual, uncolored
- drily factual
- altogether fabulous
- christiano-platonical
- _historical and statistical
- great absurd
- circumstantial and alarming
- hypnotically vivid
- properly intelligible
- comprehensive and faithful
- graphic, first-hand
- accurate and fascinating
- sizeable current
- long and most circumstantial
- cheerfully furious
- authentic and moderate
- designedly loathsome
- long and designedly loathsome
- charmingly circumstantial
- anatomical and generally descriptive
- brief and fairly truthful
- grim but plausible
- lurid and graphic
- best and most philosophical
- regular and circumstantial
- tolerably coherent
- journal or historical
- remarkably fair and full
- altogether fabulous and ridiculous
- fabulous and ridiculous
- minutely circumstantial
- intelligible and accurate
- _bibliographical and critical
- short but clear
- particular and true
- political, statistical and social
- naked, impartial
- plain and succinct
- interesting and somewhat graphic
- brief but fairly complete
- full and most excellent
- long and particular
- comprehensive verbal
- fair and evenhanded
- first-hand and thorough
- strict and authentic
- short and fairly accurate
- excellently appreciative
- statistical, political and historical
- comparatively full and comprehensive
- professedly sober
- graphic and uncensored
- clear and remarkably full
- interesting and fanciful
- distinct or circumstantial
- circumstantial and authentic
- scriptural and traditional
- fair low-level
- somewhat coloured
- full and somewhat coloured
- admirable and full
- distinct and highly interesting
- more arithmetical
- regular low-interest
- emotional and breathless
- clear elementary
- excellent and somber
- exact and even vivid
- short but highly poetic
- contemporaneous and succinct
- satisfactory or sufficient
- rational, coherent
- honest but brief
- lucrative and active
- consistent and almost complete
- brief but intermediate
- brief harrowing
- brief but true
- readable and intelligent
- last and most authentic
- full and intelligible
- brief but very satisfactory
- absolutely incorrect and untrue
- full, careful and clear
- sufficiently particular
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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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