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 conjunctions
Below is a list of describing words for conjunctions. 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 conjunctions:
- sad grotesque
- pitiful and imperfect
- deplorable but inevitable
- arbitrary, idiomatical
- fortuitous social
- favorable orbital
- possible or remote
- sometimes subordinate
- exquisite and accurate
- peaceable and amiable
- similar and closer
- unspeakable passional
- sufficiently suspicious
- habitual and efficacious
- opportune stellar
- monstrous and ruinous
- unfortunate planetary
- such, monstrous and ruinous
- mournful and involuntary
- fortunate or unlucky
- quaint and rather terrible
- promiscuous and illicit
- metamorphostical
- particular pleasurable
- servile and frigid
- queer or grotesque
- playful sexual
- auspicious stellar
- unspeakably distasteful
- capricious subjective
- rhetorical but happy
- preposterously sentimental
- extra exciting
- amicable and beautiful
- untoward planetary
- extraordinary stellar
- dark, exquisite
- auspicious planetary
- next inferior
- wonderful and unforeseen
- next economical
- fourfold loose or approximate
- marvellously unexpected
- fourfold loose
- unfortunate astrological
- most subordinate
- peculiar planetary
- ascertainable particular
- instantaneous cosmic
- harsh or difficult
- brief astrological
- sure and hearty
- seemingly reciprocal
- unlucky astrological
- propitious planetary
- permanent and extrasacramental
- curiously appropriate
- syntactic and grammatical
- spatial, syntactic and grammatical
- obsolete or antiquated
- truly incongruous
- present bare
- sufficiently mysterious
- away impossible
- equally malignant
- loose or approximate
- past relative
- next fortuitous
- extrasacramental
- unexpected and disastrous
- sufficiently odd
- particular or local
- romantic and improbable
- idiomatical
- constant and regular
- quite unnatural
- frequent or constant
- true interior
- such subordinate
- such triple
- next lunar
- inferior or superior
- certain celestial
- curious astronomical
- equally fortunate
- same unwelcome
- less propitious
- altogether happy
- more unworthy
- immediate and obvious
- several sexual
- other temporal
- great planetary
- certain elemental
- inevitable red
- altogether impossible
- such disastrous
- conjugial
- certain temporal
- merely arbitrary
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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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