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 agent
Below is a list of describing words for agent. 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 agent:
- tranquil and unsuspecting
- supervisory special
- lousy undercover
- own intergal
- moral, immortal
- indispensable fiscal
- expensive fiscal
- general and diplomatic
- unnatural or noxious
- astonishingly strong and swift
- antidipilatorisational
- ruthless interstellar
- mexican diplomatic
- semi-independent but irresponsible
- lean and faithful
- adroit and honorable
- resourceful, unscrupulous
- fearless secret
- loyal, ambitious
- anti-viral neurological
- moral and free
- consul-general and diplomatic
- spiritual remedial
- free moral
- imaginary special
- professional undercover
- far-famed secret
- senior special
- promising special
- harmful biological
- senior telepathic
- ardent and creative
- mutant viral
- broken-down confidential
- able ministerial
- special ministerial
- terrible biological
- complementary masculine
- perverse voluntary
- ubiquitous junior
- broken-down matrimonial
- precious conservative
- efficient fiscal
- sole and almost irresponsible
- wet, british
- effective curative
- hateful and bloody
- potent selective
- poor consular
- active therapeutic
- serious therapeutic
- sure and staunch
- simple, unseen and unfelt
- subtle and efficacious
- pert german
- bureau--confidential
- unconscious nor insignificant
- unknown biologic
- irreproachably honest
- willing and fanatical
- unidentifiable bacteriological
- self-confessed german
- new insolvent
- extraordinary, former
- norwegian double
- cool secret
- excessively irrepressible
- comical off-duty
- lofty, beautiful and proud
- reliable secret
- convincing double
- infidel double
- natural undercover
- daring interstellar
- chinese consular
- invaluable remedial
- bulgarian diplomatic
- potent therapeutic
- natural or co-natural
- council-general and national
- economical civic
- desirable remedial
- penetrating toxic
- free, rational and responsible
- individual, composite
- provocative septic
- protective and beneficial
- active and self-willed
- unscrupulous literary
- true operative
- universal and indefinite
- sanitary or curative
- ready and wishful
- creditable and faithful
- missionary or missionary
- good formative
- vain, insignificant and trifling
- intellectual and free
- active caustic
- powerful sanitary
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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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