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 care
Below is a list of describing words for care. 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 care:
- enough constant
- great and meticulous
- away dull
- appreciative and unremitting
- precious good
- queer, unnecessary
- fastidious technical
- conscientious technical
- durable constant
- sacred and anxious
- petty and exclusive
- compassionate and unselfish
- maternal and magnanimous
- inexpensive medical
- unremitting and arduous
- surgical intensive
- uniparental
- awkward and infinite
- vigilant and authoritative
- feeble, especial
- male parental
- skilled robotic
- cardiac intensive
- more up-close-and-personal
- doubly gentle
- previous, meticulous
- extraordinary painstaking
- shoddy animal
- heavenly intensive
- pious, conscionable
- most scrupulous
- permanent custodial
- watchful, sympathetic
- specially considerate
- prepaid medical
- basic, affordable
- neonatal intensive
- repossessed, animal
- efficient, unemotional
- female parental
- male uniparental
- hence parental
- obvious loving
- however scrupulous
- definitive medical
- spongy, great
- thy closest
- precise ordinary
- petty degrading
- scarlet, due
- deserving philosophic
- particular and almost ostentatious
- constant thoughtful
- youthful love--paternal
- loving and strenuous
- pastoral and parental
- ceaseless and watchful
- watchful and paternal
- hitherto royal
- constant and avowed
- thy providential
- incessant maternal
- infinite and expensive
- lavish continuous
- exacting extreme
- fond, incessant
- sad external
- state-of-the-art intensive
- much watchful
- vigilant maternal
- proper dental
- certainly medical
- hospital, intensive
- general cradle-to-grave
- fierce and pious
- utmost loving
- intense chronic
- long-term respiratory
- biparental
- intensive cardiac
- grateful and peculiar
- now-prenatal
- basic sick
- loud-voiced and blasphemous
- uncouth, clumsy
- minutely painstaking
- quiet and immediate
- decorous loving
- thoroughly safe and proper
- philanthropic missionary
- tactful and loving
- great and watchful
- considerate and skillful
- honest and anxious
- desirable, extreme
- strict and watchful
- insane, much
- impossible, hospital
- extreme and jealous
- particular and providential
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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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