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 applause
Below is a list of describing words for applause. 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 applause:
- loud and sincere
- sincere and vociferous
- simultaneously tremendous
- wild and completely spontaneous
- warm and frequent
- lavish, wanton
- desultory, sarcastic
- solid and offensive
- tardy, uncomfortable
- forth tumultuous
- irrepressible and almost frantic
- deeply unenthusiastic
- distant but thunderous
- rather unenthusiastic
- absolutely frantic
- unqualified and affectionate
- [_ironical
- pitiful or worth
- loudest spontaneous
- approval and great
- polite but eager
- fairly unenthusiastic
- polite but fairly unenthusiastic
- half-hearted and perfunctory
- universal and loud
- infinitely embarrassing
- fresh and infinitely embarrassing
- furious and genuine
- ready and loud
- ill-timed or continual
- immediately popular
- frequent tumultuous
- extremely tentative
- thunderous metallic
- fervent feminine
- polite but heartfelt
- nominal polite
- infrequently mild
- drunken and thunderous
- mere cordial
- irresistible and unpremeditated
- respectful but not enthusiastic
- unanimous and overpowering
- loud and honest
- sympathetic spontaneous
- again great
- again great and generous
- empty popular
- greater or warmer
- immediate or spectacular
- uncontrollable and unanimous
- thoroughly well-deserved
- resounding but still enthusiastic
- forth vociferous
- reluctantly hushed
- spontaneous and unrestrained
- cordial, remorseful
- vociferous, long-lasting
- splendid, hearty
- loud and almost irrepressible
- warm and indiscriminate
- strenuous, purposeful
- chief, higher
- unequivical
- tumultuous and protracted
- insolent, half-hearted
- mere blatant
- somewhat sycophantic
- stormy and outrageous
- forth long and loud
- mid great
- loudest and most immoderate
- tumultuous and enthusiastic
- unbounded immediate
- decorous and well-mannered
- immense and well-deserved
- vociferous but silent
- present, universal
- present and loud
- genuine and vociferous
- loud and evidently sincere
- striking and general
- loud and servile
- much home-grown
- tumultuous, undisciplined
- indifferent or even nauseous
- wiser popular
- hearty and tumultuous
- sudden and popular
- loud but transient
- most enormous
- half-hearted perfunctory
- deserving popular
- forth thunderous
- loud and unanimous
- unrestrained and promiscuous
- loud and sympathetic
- free and unanimous
- longest, loudest
- loud and senseless
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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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