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 commandments
Below is a list of describing words for commandments. 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 commandments:
- ultimate unspoken
- unwritten sure
- invaluable eighth
- acceptable and likable
- new opposite
- unfortunate seventh
- immediately straight
- holy fourth
- stringent and inescapable
- important public-school
- thine inescapable
- external, carnal
- inexplicable and apparently petty
- complex eleventh
- wide, absolute
- prime net
- rational and traditional
- considerable sensible
- explicit and rigorous
- apocryphal twelfth
- infinite and spiritual
- obedient and thy
- frivolous and unjust
- brief and easily intelligible
- >biological
- incompatible divine
- latest dietary
- seventh, ninth and tenth
- own unstated
- highest, hardest
- german eleventh
- new eleventh
- supernatural and distinct
- sixth and ninth
- moral and perpetual
- righteous and faithful
- lawful and honest
- original fourth
- cruel such
- eighth and sixth
- vague and unformed
- so-called eleventh
- fourth and tenth
- second greatest
- numerous particular
- next, inevitable
- impressive and memorable
- necessary and solemn
- arbitrary and dogmatic
- apparently petty
- principal moral
- greatest and foremost
- eighth, ninth and tenth
- such unconditional
- so-called traditional
- fifth and ninth
- old but ever new
- down definite
- holy high
- plain and unmistakable
- eleventh
- cold, sober
- eighth
- tenth
- solemn and emphatic
- wide, general
- seventh
- more insane
- many rigid
- basic moral
- such straight
- ninth and tenth
- easily intelligible
- great negative
- so-called divine
- great, eternal
- simple, artless
- direct divine
- simple and clear
- fourth, fifth and sixth
- fifth
- least moral
- ninth
- eternal and unchangeable
- natural and supernatural
- such stringent
- fundamental moral
- fourth
- small and great
- new or strange
- many divine
- harsh guttural
- innumerable petty
- sixth
- great and general
- thy wise
- carnal
- many specific
- eleventh and twelfth
- more negative
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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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