Describing Words

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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 company

Below is a list of describing words for company. 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 company:

  • state-owned coal
  • national african
  • royal african
  • same agrichemical
  • royal philippine
  • worthless and vile
  • giddy and rollicking
  • imperial dramatic
  • cold but attractive
  • national lead
  • average mercenary
  • showy great
  • small seattle-based
  • squalid and loathsome
  • numerous and promising
  • �pharmaceutical
  • worse, low and bad
  • australian agricultural
  • egyptian commercial
  • much and very good
  • merry and very fine
  • public limited
  • obsolete, official
  • agrichemical
  • undisputably charming
  • domestic peacekeeping
  • french canal
  • moody, vivid
  • nevertheless capital
  • free and loose
  • british lunar
  • well-dressed, talkative
  • whole honorable
  • unimproved original
  • strangest and lowest
  • whole jocund
  • unfailing and familiar
  • formal fine
  • respectable and superior
  • foolish and troublesome
  • amusing and uncommonly good
  • exceedingly joyful
  • heterogeneous mythological
  • vagrant, fragrant
  • bond-insurance
  • much like-minded
  • solitary and noble
  • chartered commercial
  • dull and crusty
  • dangerous and exclusive
  • tight, uneasy
  • unsmiling, sunburnt
  • itinerant carnival
  • whole worshipful
  • worst provincial
  • witty and good
  • heterogeneous and ever-changing
  • biggest pharmaceutical
  • unsuitable or demeaning
  • disreputable and vulgar
  • disturbing good
  • fashionable good
  • pastoral, gaudy
  • western cereal
  • naked and despairing
  • crooked coal
  • harmless and genial
  • dull and very bad
  • dressy, greedy
  • much genteel
  • enormous and prestigious
  • large, diverse
  • pleasant and numerous
  • abundant and opulent
  • stormy and belligerent
  • guileless and happy
  • witty and splendid
  • lately merry
  • economical suburban
  • miserably desolate
  • general chemical
  • excellent sexual
  • almost decent
  • small second
  • ever congenial
  • closer, dearer
  • malignant spiritual
  • national dramatic
  • arrogant mercenary
  • quite unfit
  • obsolete worshipful
  • whole gay
  • gal, good
  • unwashed, motley
  • maceutical
  • aggressive, talkative
  • tightest mere
  • goodly grown-up
  • decent southern
  • decent mercenary

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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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