Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
Click words for definitions.
Words to Describe conscience
Below is a list of describing words for conscience. 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 conscience:
- vincibly erroneous
- rudimental european
- overdeveloped artistic
- clear, ethical
- deep and strenuous
- thoroughly guilty
- damned pure
- hard puritanical
- urgent and troublesome
- particularly guilty
- permanently troubled
- timid maternal
- lofty useless
- fastidious scientific
- mobile and complaisant
- exceptionally scrupulous
- goddam guilty
- clearest and most serene
- temporarily active
- doubtful or guilty
- perfectly sensitive
- spotless and pure
- scrupulous and sensitive
- overly dirty
- personal or civic
- susceptible and annoying
- modestly guilty
- leathery seventeenth-century
- uncomfortably sensitive
- brand-new good
- thy perplexed
- honest clean
- guilty, murderous
- good and serene
- jolly elastic
- fiendish guilty
- insistent but vicarious
- vigilant national
- healthy courageous
- dull or obvious
- pure and spiced
- permanently guilty
- delicate, watchful
- remarkably delicate and sensitive
- superstitious and erroneous
- timorous evil
- austere artistic
- amazingly elastic and creative
- genuinely clear
- cold, guileless
- collective spanish
- organic-societal
- alert and highly suspicious
- sick or nonexistent
- guilty urban
- uneasy moral
- unbearably guilty
- indeed awake and alive
- indeed awake
- singularly pliable
- scrupulous artistic
- unsophisticated, universal
- merely false and conventional
- exceedingly acute and subtle
- spotless and chaste
- systematically misguided
- clean international
- healthy eugenic
- invincible erroneous
- paramount and infallible
- comfortable canadian
- owne miserable
- obtuse human
- irritable radical
- great scrupulous
- weak scrupulous
- abstracted intellectual
- dumpy comfortable
- livelier literary
- duly sensitive
- technical or physiological
- uneasily active
- sickly feminine
- keenly acute
- rigid anti-papistical
- certain phantom
- easy-going artistic
- tame good
- unfettered social
- robust, unswerving
- usually laggard
- austere historical
- best deterministic
- rude and oppressed
- sophisticated and well-trained
- always alive and active
- hereditary guilty
- sincere and very efficient
- fierce exacting
- large civic
Popular Searches
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.
Please note that Describing Words uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. To learn more, see the privacy policy.
