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 business
Below is a list of describing words for business. 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 business:
- serious unfinished
- cumulative loose-leaf
- much unfinished
- urgent and unavoidable
- customarily invisible
- simple, lawful
- old and still unfinished
- crazy volcanic
- ostentatiously candid
- fashionably archaic
- especially brisk
- weighty official
- revisal and unfinished
- seriously unfunny
- whole nonsensical
- lovable, warmhearted
- virtual pharmaceutical
- insanely risky
- dreadful, contemptible
- normal, good and cheerful
- little urgent
- slow, ticklish
- brief, legitimate
- basically contemptible
- official and sensitive
- tax-free, unincorporated
- hazy and ill-defined
- equally disheartening
- small fish-processing
- main everyday
- dangerous, unfathomable
- dull and stuffy
- busy and much
- sharp mauve
- unusually drab and severe
- unusually drab
- additional, minor
- dirty, ridiculous
- unpleasant, dirty
- viciously tough
- tedious, depressing
- grubby and unnecessary
- troublesome and perilous
- perilous but profitable
- horrid sad
- sufficiently engrossing
- congenial but sufficiently engrossing
- robust international
- various and weighty
- little after-hours
- awkward and chancy
- slowest and dullest
- house-painting
- whole nutty
- sordid and violent
- longer routine
- simple mail-order
- great, well-managed
- expensive, dirty
- secret shocking
- now revolting
- sufficiently intricate and difficult
- solid and remunerative
- excessively wearisome and tedious
- clever, new
- sufficiently distasteful
- tricky, dangerous
- extensive and sometimes brutal
- creative private
- well-paid, unpopular
- useless and rather irregular
- filthy degrading
- fantastic, gloomy
- urgent secular
- already risky
- high-profile, big-bucks
- arduous and exacting
- unexpectedly brisk
- funny, tricky
- whole inconvenient
- creditable but very small
- sufficiently virulent
- tedious day-to-day
- almost humbling
- administrative or public
- heavier, noisier
- humorously perilous
- perhaps unprofitable
- local and profitable
- national small
- now interminable
- hopeful, adventurous
- grand momentous
- rascally absurd
- moribund small
- smart tropical
- much retail
- expensive, stylish
- classy and immaculate
- proper and progressive
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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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