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 antagonist
Below is a list of describing words for antagonist. 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 antagonist:
- outspoken, honest
- terrible or ferocious
- rough and stalwart
- confident and victorious
- unruffled tall
- coy and wary
- vaster dramatic
- rival and late
- extremely active and energetic
- eccentric and versatile
- worsted and enraged
- skilled and lethal
- bold and tall
- equally powerful and infamous
- powerful and gallant
- different, more or less
- able and wary
- jubilant and hitherto invincible
- fearless and sleepless
- equally resolute and persistent
- common and dissimilar
- chief present-day
- natural and most worthy
- strongest and most formidable
- unwilling or unworthy
- accurate and swift
- inhumanly accurate
- inhumanly accurate and swift
- supple and active
- hardy and unflinching
- troublesome and daring
- huge, supercilious
- desperate and apparently irreconcilable
- small but highly dangerous
- formidable and finally victorious
- opposite and efficient
- subtle and noteworthy
- somewhat case-hardened
- unflinching and powerful
- resolute and lifelong
- greatest and coldest
- fiercest youthful
- crafty and alert
- unwieldy lighter-than-air
- simpler diplomatic
- anonymous episcopal
- yon seventh
- constantly victorious
- comparatively unmanageable
- vigilant and fearless
- implacable and terrible
- blind and false
- savagely efficient
- worthy and willing
- thy lumpish
- strong and practised
- hereditaryracial
- unrelenting and resourceful
- ghoulish main
- powerful and infamous
- peaceful but resolute
- bulky but clumsy
- fair and slim
- already handicapped
- skillful and brilliant
- strongest and most inveterate
- mightiest and most effective
- troublesome and formidable
- present, visible
- fairly comparable
- small motionless
- competitive chemical
- terribly dangerous and formidable
- specially famous
- finally victorious
- bitter and fatal
- royal and brilliant
- great and remorseless
- noisy and furious
- soft but dangerous
- able and sturdy
- lithe, vicious
- prostrate and still unconscious
- equally chivalrous
- damnably clever
- great and invincible
- impudent and presumptuous
- adroit and unscrupulous
- silent and powerful
- powerful and well-known
- shrewd, ruthless
- new canine
- savage aboriginal
- fresh and unsuspected
- powerfully gifted
- able and plausible
- young and agile
- monstrous, unknown
- able and bitter
- life-long political
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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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