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 advancement
Below is a list of describing words for advancement. 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 advancement:
- rapid and high
- slight remote
- particular honorable
- trial or large
- further and steady
- industrial, economic and social
- apparent industrial
- premature and indecent
- merely linear
- insidious technological
- further episcopal
- social, economic or professional
- economic or professional
- material, social and intellectual
- vaunted but theoretical
- merely lineal
- rapid and enviable
- own concurrent
- lazy routine
- continuous and rather swift
- philanthropic, literary and economic
- temporal and intellectual
- gradual and pleasing
- ambitious, due
- prodigious and rapid
- artistic, political and social
- religious, social and educational
- sudden and common
- uneven technological
- no-fault
- breathtakingly swift
- quick evolutionary
- rapid technologi-cal
- unbridled technological
- suspiciously rapid
- incomprehensible industrial
- material, intellectual and moral
- far greater and mental
- further speedy
- subsequent agricultural
- genuine agricultural
- indefinite human
- sane intellectual
- slight educational
- social, civil and industrial
- economic, political or social
- material, social and moral
- proportionate pecuniary
- selfish, individual
- successful artistic
- continuous and steady
- scientific human
- educational and legal
- swift social
- recent and extraordinary
- preferred political
- constructive human
- educational and general
- cultural and material
- cutting-edge technological
- professional technical
- technologi-cal
- technological
- relative technological
- perhaps rapid
- astonishing commercial
- purely selfish and personal
- suitable political
- material and educational
- geographical or commercial
- effective spanish
- human technological
- european intellectual
- unparalleled military
- much honorable
- literary and economic
- political, social and industrial
- rofessional
- down jewish
- swift personal
- free, unrestricted
- next technological
- professional and financial
- commercial or agricultural
- intellectual, moral and social
- steady progressive
- rapid, continuous
- apparent material
- intellectual and scientific
- intellectual and material
- rapid and thorough
- infinite possible
- professional or political
- gradual and general
- personal or pecuniary
- further ecclesiastical
- consequent rapid
- former intellectual
- great evolutionary
- radical scientific
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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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