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 commission
Below is a list of describing words for commission. 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 commission:
- unicameral pontifical
- court-martial or military
- independent electoral
- twelve-year naval
- peruvian hydrographical
- rather complimentary
- joint high
- late joint
- western sanitary
- truly loyal and indigent
- federal industrial
- international electrotechnical
- top-secret, military
- brazilian telegraphic
- patently divine
- regional federal
- capable fact-finding
- bipartisan national
- court-martial, military
- arbitrary special
- northwestern sanitary
- ruthless ecclesiastical
- loyal and indigent
- special agrarian
- nicaraguan canal
- high honorary
- official but meaningless
- unusually exorbitant
- second philippine
- impartial, international
- unreasonable and stupid
- notorious repressive
- skillful governmental
- hungarian governmental
- brazilian and french
- atrocious military
- papal biblical
- extra sacramental
- quiet and unimportant
- nuclear regulatory
- seal and military
- presiden\-tial advisory
- goddam fascist
- large and urgent
- international metrical
- original lineal
- benevolent royal
- new and most intimate
- scanty, limited
- technical advisory
- governmental industrial
- conservative and bureaucratic
- subconstitutional centennial
- british civil-service
- wide and unqualified
- subordinate and formal
- british and transvaal
- economical central
- infamous egyptian
- authoritative financial
- more plainer
- peculiar legislative
- able royal
- joint electoral
- central territorial
- formal and especial
- international technical
- necessary apostolic
- imaginary divine
- small, justifiable
- temporary governmental
- swiss meteorological
- provisional international
- analytical sanitary
- perilous and precious
- artistic-arch�ological
- provisional consular
- own centennial
- secret decretal
- fair, lawful
- electrical international
- competent parliamentary
- absolutely competent and disinterested
- oppressive, august
- germanic imperial
- expensive political
- inquisitorial ecclesiastical
- ideal royal
- long-delayed royal
- treble pastoral
- tremendous wholesale
- communal arch�ological
- communal archaeological
- illegal and blood-stained
- afghan british
- pious and profitable
- damned economic
- recent royal
- new inquisitorial
- sweet and ample
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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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