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 benefit
Below is a list of describing words for benefit. 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 benefit:
- partial or transient
- swift and petty
- national sick
- weary own
- practically mutual
- national minimum
- weekly sick
- much or permanent
- entirely unanticipated
- back incalculable
- much aggregate
- equal and coincident
- fortuitous, unpremeditated
- far-off ultimate
- identifiable or discernible
- subordinate social
- meager jobless
- additional, unexpected
- always sensual
- unpaid, unearned
- final additional
- immediate promotional
- great remunerative
- greater resultant
- semi-beneficial
- compulsory sick
- big mutual
- poor full
- specific and pure
- essential or permanent
- unfailing ultimate
- considerable and real
- doubly uncertain
- extraordinary and comprehensive
- substantial, permanent
- corresponding strategic
- direct eugenic
- positive, certain
- unqualified material
- grand, immense
- material and lesser
- carnival complimentary
- eventual pecuniary
- sole and especial
- popular sick
- tangible and adequate
- good or personal
- great but inferior
- certain and enormous
- reciprocal and exclusive
- reciprocal exclusive
- occasional and sporadic
- much vicarious
- exclusive and independent
- direct and calculable
- incidental resultant
- direct or peculiar
- moral, much
- respective pecuniary
- popular or public
- appreciably practical
- fermentation, temporary
- particular or material
- uncompensated personal
- sole and only proper
- social, mutual
- chiefly funeral
- immediate or most apparent
- proportional moral
- great imaginable
- enormous and entire
- sole and particular
- moral or even religious
- same and mutual
- popular great
- especial and solitary
- dubious temporary
- greatest reciprocal
- mutual and uplifting
- possible but remote
- adequate and corresponding
- moderate or imperfect
- especial selfish
- immediate or effectual
- immense mutual
- large indirect
- unexpected additional
- little or small
- secondary or accidental
- immediate and sensible
- real sanitary
- long-term scientific
- non-cash
- actual and tangible
- enormous indirect
- obvious, major
- magical or ritual
- whose�actual
- gross and temporary
- major societal
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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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