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 charity
Below is a list of describing words for charity. 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 charity:
- indiscreet and tyrannical
- wide but comparatively unknown
- sensitive pastoral
- blind, imprudent
- good and fraternal
- active marital
- trivial and impulsive
- active and most intelligent
- often grudging
- worthy local
- pious and truly generous
- private or general
- pure economical
- private and judicious
- useful or extensive
- voluntary or legal
- well-managed and useful
- quite cold and dead
- systematic and public
- divine and fruitful
- often reluctant
- old and well-regarded
- much heroical
- broad altruistic
- frigid and indolent
- new truer
- instead unbounded
- distant, habitual
- soft and nerveless
- broad and lax
- petty and economical
- new thy
- individual and casual
- half-hearted, fearful
- precarious and grudging
- sober but boundless
- mainly fraternal
- vague and spacious
- perhaps indiscriminate
- now perfect and imperfect
- especially fraternal
- divine and fraternal
- flaming and even fantastic
- manifest fraternal
- valiant and pitiful
- serene and meek
- sometimes reckless and harmful
- universal and habitual
- queer cynical
- genuine and large
- private and institutional
- indiscriminate private
- broad tolerant
- active and fecund
- white, innocuous
- worth and ever active
- easy, mock
- systematic or casual
- vigorous co-operative
- conscientious and evangelical
- fervent, conscientious and evangelical
- wise and anonymous
- mere, ordinary
- uncomplaining and modest
- mere compassionate
- benign and difficult
- self-denial, sweet
- magnificent, prospective
- eighth, more
- lavish or careless
- supposedly deserving
- immense and indiscriminate
- largely comprehensive
- once humble and submissive
- self-sacrificing, self-consuming
- jealous and scanty
- self-denial and secret
- eternal indefinable
- bankrupt human
- unreasonably scented
- meek, noiseless
- particularly well-managed
- official or polite
- supernatural fervent
- arduous, self-sacrificing
- legal or voluntary
- pure, universal
- bright, ribald
- pure humane
- liberal and systematic
- more humanitarian
- indifferent and easy
- broad and universal
- same ready
- local canine
- bogus educational
- little unselfish
- currently trendy
- truly impersonal
- normal hollow
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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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