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 candidates
Below is a list of describing words for candidates. 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 candidates:
- nervous white-clad
- probable liberal
- able-bodied and moral
- various right-wing
- viable presidential
- again rival
- so-called eligible
- onetime doctoral
- special doctoral
- enthusiastic and cautious
- viable expansionist
- main presidential
- bland, uncomplicated
- prospective liberal
- scandalously unfit
- other left-wing
- possible presidential
- notoriously ferocious
- fully eligible
- corrupt or unqualified
- possible mayoral
- various left-wing
- sympathetic independent
- successful supplementary
- junior liberal
- legislative and presidential
- unsuccessful democratic
- therefore prime
- third-year doctoral
- past and political
- unconscious senatorial
- presidential nor gubernatorial
- nearest reasonable
- rival gubernatorial
- hopeful, potential
- zealous and very capable
- major senatorial
- down deserving
- interesting, acceptable
- slightly maimed
- extinct, many
- local and even congressional
- pre-eminently worthy
- official liberal
- democratic presidential
- popular presidential
- other self-centered
- obvious single
- other mayoral
- obvious and legitimate
- particular independent
- recent doctoral
- senior liberal
- many acceptable
- new and almost unknown
- other skill
- prospective parliamentary
- other fungal
- unknown, last-minute
- further suitable
- intelligent presidential
- less-than-perfect hispanic
- democratic mayoral
- uniformly young and nervous
- unsuccessful presidential
- uniformly young
- ineligible and dangerous
- inconvenient rival
- personally innocent
- unimportant and insignificant
- unwilling and personally innocent
- away aspiring
- natational
- rival and unsuccessful
- small natational
- zeal new
- passive but very willing
- it--rival
- later unsuccessful
- most--liberal
- republican presidential
- imaginary rival
- possible and better
- keen and many
- undesirable liberal
- speculative and successful
- thoroughly eligible and desirable
- therefore parliamentary
- sole eligible
- rival and influential
- many-times presidential
- radical and vehement
- probable, actual
- other and native
- peculiarly available
- selfish and eager
- enthusiastic socialist
- immoral or inefficient
- strongest presidential
- incompetent, immoral or inefficient
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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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