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 career
Below is a list of describing words for career. 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 career:
- brilliant judicial
- desperately negative
- valueless, heedless
- long and influential
- brilliant undergraduate
- busy military
- brief, cometary
- gory but virtuous
- long and largely unknown
- incomplete and promising
- long and profligate
- brilliant and entirely useless
- bustling and most lucrative
- unusual and somewhat surprising
- signal legal
- safe paunchy
- moderately audacious
- long and colorless
- clever but asocial
- morose and vicious
- startling and universal
- promising civil-service
- ordinary, definite
- strenuous scholastic
- reckless and mad
- former adventurous
- long and voracious
- absurd and inconsequential
- bold missionary
- eventful and adventurous
- hardy and wonderful
- occasionally historic
- risky military
- eventful and startling
- brilliant and uninterrupted
- adventurous and erratic
- short and extraordinary
- equally short and splendid
- subsequent journalistic
- successful, astonishing
- hitherto erratic
- professional musical
- brilliant academic
- eight-year professional
- breathtakingly industrious
- long and impeccable
- previous fertile
- genuinely adequate
- long and speckled
- unexpected three-year
- entire uneventful
- decent big-league
- uninterrupted republican
- entire perfessional
- stormy and precarious
- short, daring
- blasphemous and infidel
- brilliant and lucrative
- prodigal and stormy
- somewhat short but notable
- long and somewhat reckless
- unhappy and profligate
- bright political
- eventful military
- short, wondrous
- curiously adventurous
- magnificent and spanking
- eventful and laborious
- brief and gallant
- short and sleepless
- wondrous and gentle
- decorous and domestic
- perfectly decorous and domestic
- shameless personal
- long and outwardly respectable
- busy, worthless
- godless and derogatory
- new, peaceful
- short and sour
- long and eminently useful
- tempestuous political
- undistinguished academic
- short parliamentary
- brilliant and fortunate
- brilliant and eventful
- long public
- long and marvelously prolific
- complex and moderately successful
- long and promising
- money-making or even useful
- long and somewhat incendiary
- brief and comparatively uneventful
- eight-year long
- immensely disastrous
- immensely disastrous and accidental
- resonant strenuous
- erstwhile innocent
- dangerous aquatic
- your hacking
- unchecked and triumphant
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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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