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 compensation
Below is a list of describing words for compensation. 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 compensation:
- private monetary
- lawful annual
- full valuable
- limited but definite
- precious but inadequate
- valuable and exorbitant
- grand and bloody
- ample, joyful
- valuable and sufficient
- _actual and nominal
- never pecuniary
- adequate territorial
- petite, immense
- scarcely generous
- idea--real
- excellent idea--real
- elsewhere ample
- ally reciprocal
- therefor due
- late and partial
- more, reliable
- reasonable ultimate
- overwhelming and ample
- approximately fair and liberal
- disgracefully penurious
- trifling or moderate
- accurate chromatic
- certain or adequate
- other and perfect
- adequate eventual
- reasonable and entire
- indeed liberal
- unworthy, shameful
- fine or pecuniary
- full financial
- full pecuniary
- resolute and selfless
- overall tidal
- outrageous financial
- adquately glorious
- additional monetary
- pitiful and inadequate
- eventual territorial
- tacit and inadequate
- necessary, full
- sufficient monetary
- certain and ample
- fair reasonable
- fair and just pecuniary
- partial but immediate
- always suitable
- immediate or subsequent
- hence extra
- exacting territorial
- paltry and inadequate
- indeed scanty
- invalid full
- direct but illicit
- exactly fair
- else full
- regular and extra
- large and honest
- unreasonably heavy
- approximately fair
- exact territorial
- public pecuniary
- slightest subsequent
- unspeakable moral
- fair and liberal
- just psychological
- enough monetary
- worth greater
- usual monetary
- practically sufficient
- always obvious
- just pecuniary
- due and complete
- corresponding simple
- reasonable additional
mercurial - slight pecuniary
- full and honorable
- near-maniacal
- high and liberal
- capital and good
- supply spiritual
- such manual
- adequate and sufficient
- ample pecuniary
- exact ample
- equal and reasonable
- also financial
- unspeakably sweet
- pecuniary
- small pecuniary
- hardly adequate
- unconsciously humorous
- together ample
- such ministerial
- _liberal
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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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