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 conduct
Below is a list of describing words for conduct. 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 conduct:
- imperial safe
- extravagant, incomprehensible
- cautious but prudent
- good and civilized
- sympathetic and heroic
- present incomprehensible
- infamous or notoriously disgraceful
- deceitful and artificial
- own unepiscopal
- courteous and equitable
- extraordinarily discourteous
- insubordinate and stealthy
- turbulent and dishonest
- subsequent handsome
- quarrelsome and contradictory
- shameful, such
- amiable and chivalrous
- jolly gross
- consistent and public
- selfish and pernicious
- grossly dishonorable
- gallant and meritorious
- seeming passive
- repellent childish
- vigorous and moderate
- thoughtless and vicious
- unreasonable such
- always modest and unassuming
- notoriously disgraceful
- unlawful or improper
- former mutinous
- consistent and virtuous
- refractory and stubborn
- excess, loose and sinful
- troublesome and eccentric
- correct and even conventional
- enig-matical
- somewhat enig-matical
- interested and fraudulent
- tyrannical or capricious
- promising safe
- personal nor social
- unwise and unpatriotic
- immodest and shameless
- erratic and frequently irrational
- simply secular and political
- humane and gallant
- patriotic and bold
- cold or unsympathetic
- late officious
- persistent immoral
- harsh and illiberal
- petty and ungrateful
- improper official
- entire virtuous
- scandalous and aristocratical
- unusual and unministerial
- reprehensible such
- perfectly virtuous and respectable
- absolute bad
- bushes--brutal
- weak and often tyrannical
- perhaps exemplary
- scandalous professional
- rude or awkward
- harsh and apparently cruel
- prudent and lenient
- further atrocious
- high and sometimes arrogant
- insolent and public
- lute--unclerical
- unaccountable and unpatriotic
- fractious and insubordinate
- specially gallant
- mal or corrupt
- possible unethical
- ordinarily prosaic
- insane and desperate
- tyrannical and evil
- previous and contemporaneous
- down unprofessional
- openly sexual
- anomalous and incongruous
- punctual and industrious
- curiously cool and deliberate
- insulting and insolent
- outrageously insubordinate
- uniformly wicked
- rude and unaccountable
- unprecedented and parricidal
- immoral or disgraceful
- famed thy
- tardy and inactive
- ruinous and destructive
- unaccountable and extremely piratical
- consequent oppressive
- prudent and noble
- admittedly anti-social
- systematic and uninterrupted
- previous daring
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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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