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 competition
Below is a list of describing words for competition. 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 competition:
- stiff international
- impressive and unexpectedly grand
- injurious foreign
- free-trade and active
- intense intergroup
- unbridled and ferocious
- helpful, brisk
- unfair foreign
- severe mutual
- unexpectedly grand
- downright biological
- nationwide academic
- worst potential
- endless nasty
- monstrous and mythical
- eternal and relentless
- galactic tactical
- free-trade, unrestricted
- monthly medal
- wild literary
- intense global
- intense intercollegiate
- younger men--real
- vain and unpatriotic
- aggressive pecuniary
- wholly unregulated
- healthy and free
- childish, wasteful
- absent sufficient
- breakneck economic
- unfair and ruinous
- unlimited, unrestricted
- effective and almost irresistible
- much denominational
- long-term traditional
- effective or profitable
- ultra masculine
- unfair or dishonest
- unfair and unwholesome
- intense and unregulated
- unlimited, unregulated
- purely gymnastic
- frantic and cut-throat
- unfettered economic
- comical turn-out
- national divisional
- eager and relentless
- optimum effective
- sharp commercial
- present fierce
- inter-organismal
- bitter and wasteful
- severe foreign
- especially potential
- ongoing informal
- destructive, dog-eat-dog
- subtle and constant
- cutthroat economic
- much unmarried
- stagnant and new
- horizontal, perpendicular
- foreign successful
- often victorious
- insufficient or injurious
- ingenious but very easy
- same, unnecessary
- always cutthroat
- unfair and dangerous
- capital and adverse
- chinese and domestic
- cruel commercial
- incisive and merciless
- ceaseless, incisive and merciless
- nearer and keener
- good-will and unfair
- fair unrestricted
- cut-throat international
- illegitimate and fraudulent
- unceasing peaceful
- blood-thirsty economic
- wide and spirited
- fiercest individual
- unequal and almost unfair
- free and destructive
- least avowed
- fierce and disastrous
- merely national but world-wide
- rapacious individual
- usual, keen
- noiseless but irresistible
- episcopal cathedral
- self-content, unrestricted
- intense and wasteful
- sharp industrial
- keen and fierce
- unceasing and inexorable
- tough foreign
- colonial individual
- other plutocratic
- severe and almost homicidal
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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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