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 committee
Below is a list of describing words for committee. 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 committee:
- provisional intergovernmental
- national congressional
- corporate recreational
- original intergal
- democratic central
- joint congressional
- orange burial
- military revolutionary
- late tyrannical
- expensive advisory
- central unemployed
- secret wise
- provisional central
- tripartite advisory
- agricultural consultative
- joint special
- democratic national
- anonymous central
- sleepless permanent
- dramatic theatrical
- small and really strong
- irish transvaal
- central modernist
- yon damned
- oriental central
- necessary but routine
- central revolutionary
- archaeological joint
- treacherous and insulting
- overbearing, treacherous and insulting
- certainly incomplete and disingenuous
- certainly incomplete
- brown, national
- permanent consultative
- national provisional
- colonial congressional
- large and self-chosen
- unemployed central
- defunct national
- international consultative
- special three-man
- one-man welcome
- informal advisory
- congre~sional
- hungarian central
- casual fact-finding
- joint legislative
- norwegian parliamentary
- large and very informal
- public incendiary
- central anti-slavery
- central corresponding
- perpetual matrimonial
- ignorant or officious
- domestic austrian
- own non-partisan
- self-appointed, temporary
- thrifty and considerate
- joint anglo-irish
- modern self-appointed
- official centenary
- principal agrarian
- mennonite central
- notorious ornithological
- congressional central
- polish central
- ill-fated special
- patriotic small-arms
- august and astute
- special interdepartmental
- democratic general
- large and very able
- similar hard-working
- also revolutionary and destructive
- also revolutionary
- merely baronial
- autocratic permanent
- legislative advisory
- painstaking, able
- honorable or effective
- literary or athletic
- political consultative
- fictitious central
- |floral
- legendary editorial
- bourgeois central
- informal joint
- original provisional
- central aeronautical
- strictly non-party
- autocratic judicial
- calm workable
- regular revenue-raising
- definite and very strong
- whole hypochondriacal
- extremely cautious and conservative
- remorseless french
- norwegian central
- feminine vigilant
- permanent supervisory
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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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