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 aide
Below is a list of describing words for aide. 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 aide:
- miss�personal
- self-assertive military
- lone pakistani
- loyal and resourceful
- erstwhile new
- young presidential
- loyal, wavy-haired
- miss-personal
- faithful and hardworking
- soft-spoken military
- charming, cynical
- intelligent and insightful
- gray-haired presidential
- chief and top
- snooty administrative
- solicitous military
- high-ranking parliamentary
- german honorary
- ever faithful and efficient
- amphibious civilian
- youngish military
- other longtime
- senior legislative
- particularly presidential
- fine and loyal
- confidential civilian
- unimaginative but dependable
- captain-general and chief
- young papal
- glaring female
- professional diplomatic
- anonymous, nondescript
- young impertinent
- wacky, corrupt
- corrupt, wacky
- slender ducal
- ―personal
- remarkably able and efficient
- handsome and hopeful
- subsequently senior
- slim, balding
- former legislative
- high presidential
- principal and most confidential
- helpful young
- extremely loyal
- longtime personal
- betrayal and subsequent
- presidential political
- apparent congressional
- faithful personal
- personal military
- snappily uniformed
- top administrative
- obscure and anonymous
- senior congressional
- chief civilian
- same junior
- senior military
- squat young
- top political
- beloved and popular
- unscrupulous military
- junior military
- petite dark-haired
- wavy-haired
- faithful and laborious
- former naval
- new senior
- pallid young
- young new
- now personal
- senior black
- suddenly suspicious
- watchful young
- uniformed military
- young military
- fourth-period
- chief civil
- uniformed young
- short, bearded
- favorite young
- personal
- valuable young
- certain shadowy
- former military
- young legal
- honest, hardworking
- military medical
- rather timid
- senior naval
- presidential
- new provincial
- ever faithful
- tall silent
- congressional
- handsome, well-dressed
- new papal
- quiet, efficient
- discreet little
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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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