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 ascent
Below is a list of describing words for ascent. 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 ascent:
- immediate and steep
- slight and almost circular
- sedate vertical
- high and somewhat dangerous
- steady but very gradual
- steep and laborious
- crazy and gorgeous
- limitless, gradual
- fearfully steep and slippery
- far easier and speedier
- deliberate constant
- dangerously hasty
- treacherous, laborious
- straight uphill
- arduous and triumphant
- brief, slippery
- rough, dizzying
- rapid but ecstatic
- similar break-neck
- self-sacrificing and voluntary
- daring but terrible
- pitifully slow and tortuous
- giddy dangerous
- devious, tactical
- steep and regular
- gentle, roundabout
- safe subsequent
- steep, grueling
- hardly arduous
- long but hardly arduous
- vigorous and somewhat hazardous
- intentionally suicidal
- picturesque and steep
- long and most toilsome
- toilsome and somewhat perilous
- easy and perfectly smooth
- slippery and interminable
- difficult steep
- swift and almost violent
- sudden and rocky
- uninterrupted steep
- sharp and troublesome
- hence easier
- perilous and perpendicular
- constant, gradual
- ordinary, featureless
- smooth noiseless
- gentle but circuitous
- inconvenient and difficult
- actual rocky
- gradual and unswerving
- sharp, difficult
- successful captive
- gradual but oblique
- painfully steep
- comparatively rapid and difficult
- hazardous final
- somewhat steep and difficult
- comparatively easy but devious
- unusual but easy
- long and almost precipitous
- unbroken, dizzy
- steep circuitous
- untried steep
- steep and populous
- gentle but continual
- abrupt difficult
- further and very rugged
- steep and victorious
- conscious and glorious
- irresistible, sure
- strong convectional
- pre-natal evolutionary
- male evolutionary
- cold, steep
- rarer--gradual
- steep and audacious
- featurelessly fine
- gradual but narrow
- continuously steep
- rough but sufficiently easy
- dusty, toilsome
- dizzy but inspiring
- last troublesome
- spiral and gradual
- treeless, gradual
- long and very laborious
- short and rather steep
- restless and continuous
- never limited
- laborious spiral
- regally broad
- regally broad and easy
- speedy and lofty
- uncomfortable and strenuous
- gradual but tortuous
- stiffest and last
- virtually vertical
- famous nocturnal
- dizzying, terrifying
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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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