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 attendance
Below is a list of describing words for attendance. 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 attendance:
- dear and little
- habitual decorous
- beefed-up psychiatric
- perfect humble
- frequent and humble
- -so-casual
- constant and sullen
- thorough self-sacrificing
- absolutely unremitting
- faithful, unobtrusive
- tedious painful
- weary, humiliating
- incorruptible female
- speedy surgical
- pleasant and ready
- shy but resolute
- additional and superior
- constant and uncomfortable
- clerical theatrical
- punctual or hearty
- constant and amicable
- practically continual
- regular and personal
- daily constant
- regular and interested
- large but fair
- sled--medical
- uniformly slender
- exact, perpetual
- total biennial
- rather laggard
- voluntary and sad
- several extrajudicial
- drood_--medical
- rewarding punctual
- regular, affectionate
- quicker medical
- constant and strange
- constant and almost exclusive
- vexatious, personal
- incessant skilled
- insufficient or irregular
- requisite average
- pleasant and well-dressed
- mortally officious
- exact less
- lavishly affectionate
- leaving--medical
- uncertain medical
- extravagant medical
- gratuitous medical
- oh-so-casual
- rigid compulsory
- regular and compulsory
- insufficient medical
- faithful military
- regular and punctual
- silent, workmanlike
- personal on-site
- due and decorous
- quiet and medical
- mild compulsory
- kindest and most careful
- final compulsory
- habitual and regular
- hence medical
- full and respectable
- much or constant
- needy, religious
- frequent and studious
- satisfactory compulsory
- actual and regular
- unbroken three-year
- due and vigilant
- services--no--professional
- constant and due
- further coloured
- direct compulsory
- irregular or insufficient
- largest japanese
- surgical and hospital
- popular and military
- punctual & constant
- grateful and solicitous
- ever-present medical
- free medical
- skillful medical
- further voluntary
- regular and exemplary
- skilled medical
- solid serious
- sulky, slow
- immediate surgical
- usually regular
- careless or unskilled
- constant and best
- former irregular
- requisite and necessary
- possible rare
- official or servile
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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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