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 admiration
Below is a list of describing words for admiration. 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 admiration:
- approval, compelling
- serious and innocent
- undisguised but honest
- mutual, grudging
- cunning and undisguised
- hothouse mutual
- current, exciting
- extravagant and wild
- exuberant and honest
- respectful but silent
- distant and involuntary
- forth unqualified
- stupid and involuntary
- perfectly stupid and involuntary
- feverish fugitive
- modest but hungry
- most enthusiastic
- heartfelt prostrate
- vast contemptuous
- mute abstracted
- evident but respectful
- open and enthusiastic
- stupid and monotonous
- abject and nerveless
- spontaneous and unbridled
- heartfelt, outspoken
- furtive but undisguised
- manifest and almost avowed
- sincere and very heartfelt
- affectionate, reverent
- strange, innocent
- envious and naive
- open and unusual
- involuntary, genuine
- devilish warm
- grudging, wary
- blatantly righteous
- ill rapt
- undisguised passionate
- rapt mutual
- disapproval, grudging
- unwilling professional
- refined and ecstatical
- glad, honest
- sacred and respectful
- sheer worshipful
- pained but undisguised
- curious and almost romantic
- mute and delicate
- devout, serious
- immediate or extravagant
- forth immediate or extravagant
- approval and well-founded
- limited and artificial
- fervent and unqualified
- deep but respectful
- stupid, enthusiastic
- unreasonable and almost unreasoning
- eternal and fervent
- passionate and chivalrous
- respectfully furtive
- profound and somewhat mysterious
- romantic and reverent
- positive and irresistible
- reverential and yet affectionate
- occasional and most reluctant
- new and reluctant
- mute, attentive
- certain grudging
- sudden, dazed
- total and unabridged
- inevitably mutual
- little impersonal
- undying and desperate
- actually grudging
- rapt and very eloquent
- recklessly passionate
- sudden and reverential
- genuine direct
- ever respectful
- somewhat immoderate
- simple chivalrous
- undue or unqualified
- intense and cordial
- extraordinarily widespread
- keenest and most affectionate
- enormous and poetic
- profound, affectionate
- queer furtive
- extreme and over-technical
- true and frank
- free-thinking--general
- respectful, intense
- pious and boundless
- careless but genuine
- unqualified and unanimous
- vulgar and almost insolent
- sincere cursory
- innocent, genuine
- reverential, timid
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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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