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 attachment
Below is a list of describing words for attachment. 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 attachment:
- sincere and uninterrupted
- passionate and almost reverential
- sturdy and frank
- perfect and boundless
- simple and still strong
- excessive and unequalled
- sudden or disinterested
- singular and disinterested
- sincere and inviolable
- passionate and grotesque
- sincere, incomparable
- great unreasonable
- local and familiar
- idle and unauthorized
- vehement or romantic
- devout and even scrupulous
- obstinate and unreasoning
- deep familial
- plain and affectionate
- patriotic and affectionate
- genuine sentimental
- undying, unabated
- secret unhappy
- however strong and mutual
- excessive and illicit
- long constant
- fond and romantic
- ardent and unabated
- subtle deep
- steady and reciprocal
- profound lifelong
- paranoid, obsessive
- fervent hereditary
- strong juvenile
- brief and idyllic
- ]fatal
- conscientious and fervent
- common or humble
- charmingly obvious
- tenacious and affectionate
- intensive erotic
- violent and wholly unreasonable
- similar and unconscious
- sincere and even enthusiastic
- passionate, persistent
- secret, modest
- subsequent but momentary
- youthful and most fervent
- domestic or paternal
- single and constant
- inveterate sentimental
- deep and sturdy
- excellent hush
- obstinate and ruinous
- passionate, engrossing
- disinterested and immovable
- standard and enthusiastic
- untoward and unfortunate
- imply conjugal
- true and inviolable
- sentimental, sympathetic
- supersensual conjugal
- unfortunate and disgraceful
- ardent and almost adorable
- pure, sentimental
- thoroughly romantic and ideal
- loose muscular
- strong and excessive
- secret, strong
- facile, after-dinner
- mutual and truly sincere
- clandestine and disgraceful
- sincere, unobtrusive
- partial, animated
- honest life-long
- royal and benignant
- unabated and constant
- timid but proud
- zeal and loyal
- zeal and most loyal
- unalterable and respectful
- strong and inviolable
- unconquerable and zealous
- comparatively exclusive
- strong, undying
- rational, steadfast
- abnormal placental
- sentimental and effeminate
- habitual, immovable
- sometimes latent
- intensely local and narrow
- everlasting and unlimited
- fearless and undying
- pathetic and sometimes dangerous
- patriotic or unselfish
- absolutely unswerving and unalterable
- sincere, steady and active
- solitary unfortunate
- romantic but hopeless
- ninth serious
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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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