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 collision
Below is a list of describing words for collision. 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 collision:
- unpredictable ongoing
- unfortunate but catastrophic
- titanic lurid
- head-on military
- unnecessary and hostile
- possible and unwelcome
- perpetual and mad
- rude, unaided
- spectacularly violent
- cometary or asteroidal
- latest planetary
- frequent and unfortunate
- possible inert
- original, catastrophic
- maybe multiple
- major and possibly final
- violent, slow-motion
- particularly bruising
- explosive and fertile
- gruesome moist
- futile physical
- routine and unpleasant
- inevitable and disastrous
- singular comico-tragical
- constant unsupported
- unavoidable and disastrous
- inevitable hostile
- sharpest and freest
- keen and unavoidable
- possible oblique
- aggregate and ruinous
- immediate and fierce
- unimpeded and decisive
- needless and deplorable
- seemingly unavoidable
- severe cultural
- scarcely imaginable
- frequent and bloody
- sufficiently violent
- undersea hit-and-run
- possibly final
- low random
- weird temporal
- momentary unavoidable
- forthcoming cosmic
- brief but frantic
- imminent planetary
- raucous but enthusiastic
- fresh violent
- immediate and disagreeable
- comico-tragical
- violent or impetuous
- bloody and final
- anglo-continental
- painful and constant
- massive and dark
- perpetual and endless
- closest and most frequent
- direct and angry
- apparently disordered
- sharper and fiercer
- incessant logical
- direct hostile
- hard and direct
- last continental
- temporary and apparent
- peculiarly annoying
- earlier sexual
- inevitable and fatal
- direct frontal
- fantastically powerful
- apparently imminent
- cold and bruising
- recent catastrophic
- thoroughly violent
- major vehicular
- sharp and fatal
- hard and frequent
- frequent actual
- dangerous and disagreeable
- open and violent
- sharp official
- immediate and painful
- major orbital
- possibly catastrophic
- potential asteroid
- terribly disastrous
- less catastrophic
- constant and direct
- sharp, musical
- slow, noisy
- usually dependable
- simple, unexpected
- violent, sudden
- personal and painful
- occasional disastrous
- ancient asteroid
- diplomatic or political
- similar apparent
- furious political
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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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