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 charge
Below is a list of describing words for charge. 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 charge:
- permanent static
- ingenious and wholly surprising
- thick static
- headlong desperate
- initial residual
- brutal initial
- idiotic all-out
- aimless, destructive
- larger and horrendous
- huge vicarious
- residual static
- wholly surprising
- dreadful and unfounded
- permanent and ever-increasing
- injurious and very improbable
- rapid successful
- minimal explosive
- ridiculous, unspoken
- frightful atomic
- commonly least
- whole transferable
- magnetic explosive
- net positive
- impressive electrical
- stored-up static
- alien static
- insane and blasphemous
- dear and peculiar
- former nicaraguan
- courageous but futile
- random electric
- all-out direct
- immediately crippling
- headlong seven-year-old
- steady static
- single, heroic
- unfounded political
- strangely electrical
- minimum electric
- peripheral electrostatic
- intense and tremendous
- memorable and effective
- absurd and undefined
- definite categorical
- so-called residual
- direct and unexpected
- reckless and monstrous
- tangible or serious
- heavy or full
- haphazard, sidelong
- swift, avaricious
- consequent annual
- perfunctory judicial
- further and equally serious
- direct and fiery
- miniature clerical
- new, worse
- virtually sole
- standard propulsive
- wild, disorganized
- unjust and most unfounded
- massive, heroic
- careless offensive
- sacred pious
- dumbfounded alien
- other trumped-up
- hopeless, suicidal
- famous suicidal
- massive negative
- vague but mischievous
- vast and suspicious
- rapid and merciless
- special and most respectful
- quantitative electric
- suitable and solemn
- utterly groundless and unfair
- glorious, final
- chief tangible
- gallant but impossible
- trivial, trumped-up
- burdensome and important
- desperate and extremely gallant
- monstrous and unbelievable
- equally unjust and extravagant
- solid, impregnable
- self-contained impulsive
- placid self-contained
- refusal, exorbitant
- vague and damaging
- sacred and pitiful
- undefined mysterious
- gallant but useless
- net negative
- own bioelectrical
- disgraceful and impertinent
- hideous mediaeval
- indirect public
- sole medical
- furious, frenzied
- small explosive
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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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