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 ambition
Below is a list of describing words for ambition. 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 ambition:
- rapacious, vaulting
- insupportable and outrageous
- self-seeking or ignoble
- violently commercial
- high and abstracted
- personal and tawdry
- gigantic secular
- monstrous, ravenous
- frustrating human
- headstrong and selfish
- present and domestic
- extravagant and slender
- private and unsupported
- puerile and scholastic
- great, tenacious
- private detectorial
- rather laudable
- wildly upscale
- preternatural and remorseless
- famed political
- laudable and rather thrilling
- wrathful and wretched
- jealous, mean-spirited
- perhaps immoderate
- generous matrimonial
- violent and most insolent
- bold and unbounded
- insatiable and reckless
- restless and unjust
- generous, healthy
- boundless political
- egotistic and impatient
- intriguing and restless
- old jejune
- strongest but most preposterous
- aspiring and somewhat ludicrous
- unlawful personal
- truly noble and lofty
- unrestrained and ferocious
- vulgar nor mercenary
- tremendous undaunted
- vilely egotistic
- turbulent and unsettled
- single, all-consuming
- shamefully petty
- altogether chimerical
- childish and dangerous
- noble, old-fashioned
- whorlly intellectual
- own self-consuming
- overbearing and desperate
- restless, egotistical
- pleasing, laudable
- long-time great
- zadar--personal
- dormant olympian
- inordinate and persistent
- boundless but prudent
- one-time restless
- youthful, disquieting
- senseless and unscrupulous
- final and fiercest
- active, envious
- icy and heartless
- especially parliamentary
- unscrupulous, tortuous
- thy frigid
- ruthless and predatory
- prime initial
- detectorial
- remorseless military
- thy insane
- keener personal
- arrogant and unbounded
- unrealistic but slightly feral
- increasingly problematic
- insatiable and steadfast
- sudden parliamentary
- murderous blind
- high vaulting
- impossible, blasphemous
- brand-new horizontal
- incessant and insatiable
- greedy bold
- inordinate social
- inordinate and successful
- pleasant and disinterested
- low, ephemeral
- dramatic or vocal
- great and vicarious
- commercial or national
- ecclesiastical nor social
- laudable and elegant
- pugnacious professional
- self-seeking and unworthy
- unbridled and unbounded
- safe and worthy
- fond and ruinous
- selfish or vain
- inordinate and bloodthirsty
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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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