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 appointment
Below is a list of describing words for appointment. 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 appointment:
- evident and clear
- flattering and dangerous
- fictitious and rather incredible
- insufferably polite
- universal and merciful
- recent auditorial
- appropriate, capital
- first-rate permanent
- strikingly appropriate and picturesque
- here--capital snug
- promagisterial
- tyrannical and compulsive
- unquestioned secular
- absurd and singularly unsuitable
- major consular
- valuable and undeserved
- patently political
- poorest curatorial
- every-day, social
- snug civil
- reckless, experimental
- probational and absolute
- onerous and lucrative
- personally acceptable and agreeable
- personally acceptable
- high, non-technical
- hoped-for hospital
- interim or merely temporary
- -botanical
- profitable or honorable
- fifth punctual
- tentative papal
- wholly unsolicited and unexpected
- judicious and opportune
- lucrative local
- lucrative or suitable
- foreign and far-away
- onerous ministerial
- responsible and active
- inconvenient and apparently purposeless
- final unsatisfactory
- strictly armorial
- permanent municipal
- grateful and conciliatory
- indescribably complete
- righteous but terrible
- appropriate and picturesque
- unexpected and unsolicited
- universal and regular
- singularly unsuitable
- comfortable and congenial
- last dental
- covert and indeterminate
- dull and inescapable
- urgent, unpleasant
- dead-end bureaucratic
- fateful and violent
- appropriate and advantageous
- provisional or temporary
- grossly unfit
- recent insulting
- --governmental
- popular and safe
- probational
- foreign lucrative
- responsible and useful
- lucrative and permanent
- good or second-rate
- honorary musical
- fat easy
- laborious and uncongenial
- skilfully thought-out
- lucrative colonial
- willing and voluntary
- divine vindictive
- vague diplomatic
- external supernatural
- honorable military
- high provincial
- present diplomatic
- smallest irish
- important and lucrative
- indirect legislative
- greater official
- highest parliamentary
- responsible legal
- special and gracious
- canadian civil
- valuable official
- such temporary
- real kooky
- civil medical
- excellent civil
- thine irrevocable
- infinitely weaker
- solemn double
- wholly unsolicited
- recent ecclesiastical
- bare external
- lucrative civil
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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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