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 advocacy
Below is a list of describing words for advocacy. 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 advocacy:
- imperfect or impulsive
- personal powerful
- interested or sentimental
- callous and immoral
- apparently callous and immoral
- constant and frank
- feminine, shrill
- strong and often insane
- anxious, energetic
- pleasantly straightforward
- sane and pleasantly straightforward
- deep, invariable
- lucid and most laborious
- undoubtedly correct and useful
- outspoken and common-sense
- eager and warm
- open and clean-cut
- honest and unswerving
- zealous, loyal
- inflexible and fearless
- puny and adventitious
- wrong and uncompromising
- strenuous and efficacious
- effective but decorous
- cunning and thine
- merely plausible
- passionately political
- misguided and premature
- enthusiastic and gallant
- often insane
- persistent and most effective
- enthusiastic and ceaseless
- zealous and tireless
- loud and persistent
- enlightened and steady
- zealous and indiscreet
- judicious and delicate
- vigorous and direct
- various operating-system
- irate public
- eager and zealous
- former enthusiastic
- courageous and enlightened
- correct and useful
- much impassioned
- zealous and skilful
- fair and potent
- fearless and eloquent
- rough and vigorous
- courageous and strong
- zealous and powerful
- generous, loving
- honest and intrepid
- bold and shameless
- undoubtedly correct
- strenuous modern
- apparently callous
- skilful and fearless
- own unofficial
- powerful and persistent
- subtle but strong
- strong partisan
- eloquent and powerful
- bold and aggressive
- equally strenuous
- operating-system
- gallant and chivalrous
- powerful and eloquent
- intelligent and conscientious
- merely academic
- nonpublic
- such unqualified
- anti-theological
- noble and eloquent
- own amazing
- honest, intelligent
- more uncompromising
- old passionate
- wholly disinterested
- ordinary legal
- non-violent
- less enthusiastic
- such eloquent
- wise and humane
- other considerable
- fresh and vigorous
- old threadbare
- frank and open
- zealous
- eloquent
- strenuous
- more eloquent
- almost fanatical
- large and liberal
- mere verbal
- untenable
- fearless
- less violent
- more enthusiastic
- enthusiastic
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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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