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 advocate
Below is a list of describing words for advocate. 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 advocate:
- consciencelessly powerful
- effective and witty
- talented and terrible
- eloquent and indomitable
- zealous and respectable
- facile and often effective
- rancorous and reckless
- zealous and very judicious
- spirited and defiant
- staunchest and most zealous
- warm and consistent
- exclusive and one-sided
- one-sided and exclusive
- ardent and most ingenious
- energetic and zealous
- amiable but dreadfully noisy
- sleek, clerical
- eloquent indignant
- temperate, unyielding
- trenchant and resolute
- courageous, uncompromising
- truthful and consistent
- brave, truthful and consistent
- fortunate and elegant
- open and strong
- efficient and eloquent
- staunch and eloquent
- unconscious and most persuasive
- steady, pains-taking
- ardent and somewhat arrogant
- avowed and ultra
- stubborn, indefatigable
- enlightened and strenuous
- steady and vehement
- original and uncompromising
- persistent and tiresome
- half-hearted and shifty
- warm and efficient
- dutch native
- able and philanthropic
- popular or successful
- well-known, indefatigable and life-long
- indefatigable and life-long
- truer, abler
- talented and staunch
- strict and ardent
- chivalrous but uncompromising
- hearty and thorough
- renowned and venerable
- lately proud
- willing and outspoken
- world-renowned young
- fearless and practical
- unflinching and able
- bold, discreet and able
- rabid twentieth-century
- plausible and judicious
- able but wicked
- perpetually passionate
- leal and wise
- pathetic and disinterested
- powerful and flattering
- new and dauntless
- fearless belgian
- incomparable forensic
- enthusiastic teetotal
- eager, zealous
- uncompromising and indiscriminating
- contentious and able
- strangest and most talented
- zealous hungarian
- vigorous contentious
- piously tenacious
- earliest potent
- strong and charming
- cold venal
- socialist and eager
- undisguised and uncompromising
- able and strenuous
- extrafamilial
- boldest and most outspoken
- tiresome and wretched
- warm and indignant
- ardent public
- impassioned and eloquent
- eloquent and original
- subtle but ardent
- best-known public
- longtime nuclear
- forceful and popular
- zealous and practical
- steadfast, heroic
- intrepid and eloquent
- weighty and eloquent
- prominent and extreme
- sincere and unswerving
- warm and effective
- eminent theistic
- vigorous and steadfast
- reliable and talented
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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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