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 biography
Below is a list of describing words for biography. 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 biography:
- huge definitive
- full and intensely interesting
- charming and able
- subsequent gilded
- massive official
- adequate and full
- high-toned and sympathetic
- ‘ornithological
- large cumbersome
- rapid and military
- satisfactory formal
- authoritative brief
- readable and vivid
- admirable and most interesting
- brief interesting
- somehow complete
- tacit but somehow complete
- tragic and strange
- condensed and vivid
- succinct but complete
- narrative and descriptive
- simple and remarkably interesting
- dark and eccentric
- monumental and authoritative
- fairly comprehensive and complete
- popular, concise
- candid and strictly personal
- painstaking and meritorious
- exceedingly painstaking and meritorious
- uncommonly skillful
- typical and immortal
- virile and suggestive
- official or canonical
- exhaustive and highly interesting
- terrific sacred
- truthful and circumstantial
- complete brief
- best inner
- adequate brief
- impartial nor wholly accurate
- destructively laudatory
- interesting, sympathetic and eloquent
- brief anonymous
- short favorable
- lengthy and unsatisfactory
- contemporary bengali
- exhaustive, intimate
- legitimately uncritical
- readable but inaccurate
- vast and sentimental
- confessedly conjectural
- trustworthy and enjoyable
- charming and many-sided
- biography--classical
- spicy and attractive
- reliable and consecutive
- amusing, naive
- credible and interesting
- intimate but doubtful
- remarkable and little-known
- full and consistent
- early indian
- fairer and fuller
- own official
- relentlessly fair
- informative literary
- sparkling short
- easy-to-read critical
- up-to-date critical
- unauthorized psychological
- respectable, respectful
- excellent, unpublished
- compulsive, erratic
- good one-word
- mammoth, full-scale
- strategically incomplete
- tell-all unauthorized
- old provenal
- entirely new and complete
- `ornithological
- sketchy and imperfect
- excellent and appreciative
- contemporary contemporary
- short and readable
- prosaic and critical
- formal separate
- briefest and most brilliant
- particularly slanderous
- sympathetic and eloquent
- usual attractive
- readable critical
- miserable one-sided
- comprehensive, many-sided
- excellent and authoritative
- short ancient
- authentic buddhist
- brief but scathing
- french universal
- peculiar or pathetic
- queer, peculiar or pathetic
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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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