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 achievement
Below is a list of describing words for achievement. 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 achievement:
- captivating military
- proudest bygone
- hydraulical
- entirely commendable
- solid and surprising
- impressive asian
- miraculous scientific
- gallant but premature
- increasingly selfless
- consistent and increasingly selfless
- outstanding diplomatic
- greatest philanthropic
- irish artistic
- heroic or signal
- remarkably satisfactory
- bright, crowning
- immense conversational
- sole culinary
- splendid but almost impossible
- stainless and unimpeachable
- artistic and satisfactory
- historic and wonderful
- intellectual, cultural and economic
- great vaunted
- gigantic or significant
- worthier poetical
- grandest national
- arcane technological
- individual, temperamental
- crowning technological
- final accidental
- recent, spectacular
- real crowning
- substantial and noteworthy
- evident but similarly dubious
- revolting, amazing
- complete or satisfying
- gradual literary
- less epoch-making
- last antislavery
- noteworthy and highly creditable
- notable oratorical
- co-spiritual
- capital critical
- national and magnanimous
- peculiar and mischievous
- absolutely up-to-date
- immediate constructive
- scientific spirit--cultural
- spirit--cultural
- respectable technical
- rare and still rudimentary
- artistic and maritime
- greater photographic
- structural constructive
- colossal, spiritual
- pretentious and dreary
- boldest musical
- laborious beloved
- further effortful
- rather small and unstable
- large and astonishing
- classic and probably unsurpassed
- heroic and masterful
- greatest apologetic
- professional athletic
- crowning poetic
- human meritorious
- hardest and highest
- strange and solid
- previous heraldic
- strange and temporary
- signal architectural
- dearest and proudest
- literary or agricultural
- mills--signal
- astounding actual
- temperate and tolerable
- unusual and notable
- french technological
- definite parliamentary
- brilliant and most memorable
- distinctly literary or artistic
- greatest co-operative
- prosperous and beatific
- fine and wise
- triumphant moral
- brilliant departmental
- far-reaching supernormal
- ingenious synchronal
- hazardous or important
- triumphantly vital
- luminous and subtle
- splendid audacious
- superior pecuniary
- similar statesmanlike
- impressive, immeasurable
- literary or esthetic
- possible and attractive
- largest and most abiding
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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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