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 argument
Below is a list of describing words for argument. 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 argument:
- nice knock-down
- practical or logical
- loud and lengthy
- moral, legal and psychological
- hour-long philosophical
- new, fit
- convincing, constitutional
- skilful and impassioned
- familiar playful
- unassailable and thoroughly convincing
- macho emotional
- weighty negative
- congenial and convincing
- obviously specious
- clearly specious
- old and long-running
- endless and probably unsuccessful
- absolutely unanswerable
- excellent knock-down
- unanswerable female
- pointless and repetitive
- seemingly compelling
- considerable loud
- last fatuous
- intricate or profound
- bitter and perhaps hysterical
- loud, acrimonious
- seemingly unsophisticated
- legal and psychological
- lengthy and rigorous
- down-home, pragmatic
- sober and logical
- seductively eloquent
- cramped and cautious
- long and utterly futile
- famous ontological
- weak and tortuous
- wholly specious
- complete and ironclad
- good concise
- latest decent
- eternal modern
- stronger historic
- loud and equal
- brisk mathematical
- long and markedly irrelevant
- silent but fierce
- luminous platonic
- adverse and powerful
- convenient and perfectly justifiable
- long and practical
- sharp or warm
- so-called ontological
- appeal and powerful
- academic and idle
- denial or general
- simplest economical
- chief and most solid
- truly compelling
- home-market
- studious, higher
- simplest and most unanswerable
- long and unproductive
- long and troubling
- queasily specious
- notably profane
- loud and notably profane
- long and still unsettled
- constantly elusive
- sensible or fair
- obscure but vehement
- wild, strident
- increasingly petty
- sardonic, interminable
- plain and conclusive
- r-r-real
- violent and regrettable
- short and inconclusive
- violent electronic
- ingeniously wrong-headed
- classical sentimental
- exhaustive but futile
- strangely inconclusive
- bad concurrent
- weakest and most fallacious
- present and acute
- so-called aetiological
- complete teleological
- rational theistic
- intricate and indigestible
- constructive and compelling
- old-fashioned, speculative
- stinging and unsatisfactory
- real and conclusive
- wholly temporary
- acute philological
- long and very confusing
- sufficient scriptural
- potent contradictory
- ingenious and fallacious
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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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