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 administrator
Below is a list of describing words for administrator. 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 administrator:
- sarcastic and ferocious
- ordinary corrupt
- literal-minded and very junior
- hard and competent
- chief planetary
- decent domestic
- efficient, beloved
- intelligent, able
- conscientious and economical
- best selective
- last capable
- enormously able
- capable, cautious
- new and current
- efficient, imaginative
- bad and devious
- equally bad and devious
- boldly scheming
- autocratic and practised
- impartial, open-minded
- incomparable chinese
- greatest and most indefatigable
- general and skilful
- young and laborious
- courteous, grave
- impartial and vigorous
- able but erratic
- former lend-lease
- obscure burmese
- omniscient and ubiquitous
- energetic and sympathetic
- complex and highly composite
- severe and capable
- relentless and careful
- general and colonial
- judicious and capable
- suitable working-class
- mystic and practical
- active and most capable
- all-round municipal
- prudent and capable
- thoroughly capable and honest
- young planetary
- extremely capable and energetic
- fiendishly capable
- angular benedictine
- hapless planetary
- evenhanded and unflappable
- enthusiastic, lifelong
- balding, seedy
- gifted and obviously talented
- excellent and conscientious
- minor medical
- contrary former
- machiavellian former
- top-notch scientific
- likable and charming
- capable and effective
- perpetually cash-starved
- imaginative and thoughtful
- wise and vigilant
- honest and most capable
- excellent colonial
- efficient and courageous
- relevant regional
- honest and businesslike
- able and conciliatory
- correct and conscientious
- active and conscientious
- able colonial
- wise or able
- good but uneventful
- extraordinarily competent
- energetic and conscientious
- effective and efficient
- indefatigable and efficient
- vigorous and skillful
- thorough and indefatigable
- personally honest
- liberal civil
- ambitious chief
- ex-colonial
- senior secondary
- vigorous and wise
- skilful and able
- diligent and capable
- wise and high-minded
- strong planetary
- pure and equal
- prudent and judicious
- vigorous and capable
- capable and vigorous
- brilliant and honorable
- skilful and energetic
- relatively important
- unusually adept
- chief terrestrial
- able civil
- skillful and able
- capable naval
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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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