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 benefactors
Below is a list of describing words for benefactors. 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 benefactors:
- gracious and liberal
- kindred and greatest
- disinterested and indefatigable
- charming turkish
- willing, self-sacrificing
- energetic and warm-hearted
- wealthy elder
- local villainous
- avowedly great and permanent
- unnamed but very honorable
- avowedly great
- human, partial
- unrecognized public
- never-to-be-forgotten public
- ]--potential
- liberal and powerful
- helpful, instructive
- last-named public
- august and sole
- greatest dendral
- true and laborious
- gallant and adventurous
- peaceful public
- me--potential
- stodgy alien
- immense, bloodied
- enough private-sector
- wise, great and glorious
- rough-hewn, unpolished
- princely public
- blase, gracious
- great, public
- dendral
- dear and most generous
- spare your
- greatest and earliest
- countless obscure
- self-appointed public
- harmless, eccentric
- rich and tiresome
- countless pious
- generous and unexpected
- would-be public
- excellent, generous
- equally nameless
- invisible, eternal
- true, gracious
- communal and individual
- dead victorian
- remote and unknown
- inevitable public
- great and charitable
- mysterious unseen
- considerate and generous
- big-bucks
- fine proud
- many episcopal
- modest and delicate
- often best
- few financial
- greatest and most universal
- secret and invisible
- unselfish public
- worthy and generous
- such narrow-minded
- merciful and generous
- greatest pecuniary
- own one-time
- noblest and most generous
- oldest and truest
- truly immortal
- rich and pious
- unknown and distant
- same unseen
- beloved and loving
- next literary
- unknown and unsuspected
- unique and special
- wealthy new
- equally liberal
- social and humanitarian
- fond and affectionate
- generous public
- crystal-lattice
- great legendary
- pious and charitable
- thy grand
- greatest and highest
- greatest public
- greater public
- greatest and truest
- greatest and wisest
- powerful and mysterious
- pure and disinterested
- new, mysterious
- certain anonymous
- better public
- other legendary
- great mighty
- great public
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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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