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 coincidence
Below is a list of describing words for coincidence. 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 coincidence:
- bizarrely improbable
- totally staggering
- sheer and amazing
- accidental and involuntary
- incredible but meaningless
- ol fortunate
- strange, terrible and extraordinary
- curiously unfortunate
- unimaginably helpful
- occasional nightmarish
- welcome and felicitous
- rare, welcome and felicitous
- purely unnoticed
- blissful and appropriate
- extra-casual
- curious and apparently unnoticed
- slightest or most commonplace
- hideous but astonishing
- equally hideous but astonishing
- sinister and mournful
- small lucky
- tragical and terrible
- now seeming
- impossibly rare
- bizarre cosmic
- awfully unusual
- unfortunate but suspicious
- incredible but genuine
- merely macabre
- admittedly amazing
- somewhat grim and ominous
- principal textual
- likely triple
- louise--ideal
- quaint but invariable
- infernally odd
- truly interesting and appropriate
- equally odd and embarrassing
- dretfully funny
- curious and somewhat awkward
- particular and trivial
- happy and unpremeditated
- marvellously pleasing
- notable and somewhat humorous
- fortunate and interesting
- natural and quite impressive
- odd paradoxical
- casual, fortuitous
- singular and certainly curious
- frightfully unhappy
- accidental and short-lived
- striking and happy
- remarkable and complex
- trifling but noticeable
- fortuitous and insubstantial
- wholly fortuitous and insubstantial
- curious orthoepical
- further and most remarkable
- invariable magical
- quaint olfactory
- rare and prodigious
- physical or purest
- curious and dramatic
- actual exact
- apparently unnoticed
- mere fortunate
- funny damned
- odd and pleasing
- singular and fatal
- curious and unwelcome
- entirely meaningless
- “absolutely extraordinary
- staggeringly convenient
- bloody unfortunate
- miraculous numerical
- too-coincidental
- interesting linguistic
- latest quaint
- hardly impossible
- blind damn
- dreadful triple
- sheer, appalling
- comic biological
- big inevitable
- exquisitely dangerous
- same socalled
- truly providential
- admittedly odd
- weird and irrelevant
- mere, unimportant
- remarkable and yet unfortunate
- oddest and most singular
- likely pure
- amazingly opportune
- partial but not complete
- unimportant but interesting
- absolutely stupendous
- strange and suitable
- strangely tragic
- further fortunate
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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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