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 army
Below is a list of describing words for army. 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 army:
- somali national
- regular haitian
- numerous and invincible
- italian second
- total nineteenth
- cosmic swiss
- mighty infernal
- completely green
- whole well-equipped
- principal insurgent
- vast draconian
- efficient regular
- finest joint
- tattered and woeful
- impersonal and evil
- invincible turkish
- imperial bavarian
- powerful, versatile
- slack and incompetent
- small tough-looking
- mighty and heterogeneous
- british second
- main belgian
- large, incompetent
- make-work prewar
- smaller, better
- modest royal
- second japanese
- ever-growing british
- other inglorious
- second austro-hungarian
- eleventh german
- major, british
- afghan national
- vast and victorious
- main swedish
- aside stubborn
- private responsive
- deceptive and irresistible
- truly democratic and free
- small, would-be
- vital royal
- heroic small
- asian or just plain
- large and victorious
- enormous and well-equipped
- general and most powerful
- vast and well-trained
- decrepit and bloated
- well-equipped egyptian
- gaudy but shabby
- other and main
- main bulgarian
- whole french
- useful swiss
- green two-seat
- vulnerable, unskilled
- major mechanized
- real phantom
- effective southern
- nearest land-based
- large, unstoppable
- filthy, ravenous
- silent and unbelievable
- unnamed nipponese
- whole federal
- mightiest and bravest
- non-existent british
- victorious swiss
- active belgian
- formidable and big
- largest voluntary
- never european
- longed-for french
- victorious and still fresh
- remarkably well-equipped
- fresh and well-trained
- doubly defiant
- royal cambodian
- portugal portuguese
- ambitious regular
- grand swedish
- fanatical and undisciplined
- unbroken and numerous
- admirable, glorious
- limited regular
- huge syrian
- entire mundane
- massive conventional
- cuban mercenary
- vast federal
- whole british
- half-hearted swiss
- veritable demonic
- bloody demonic
- gloriously attired
- innumerable and invincible
- huge and capable
- damned weary
- still unorganized and untrained
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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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