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 consistency
Below is a list of describing words for consistency. 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 consistency:
- scholastic logical
- stern self-destructive
- recognizably liquid
- tragic and glaring
- delightfully creamy
- elusive internal
- animal and organic
- wonderful, disturbing
- healthful psychological
- general awful
- regular and unparalleled
- weak and fleeting
- logical or speculative
- unflinching logical
- almost rocklike
- dense, clotted
- moral, physiological and psychological
- commendable political
- almost gluey
- unflinching and resolute
- hard or elastic
- compact, unyielding
- elastic or soft
- unformed national
- characteristic colloidal
- subtle sylvan
- seldom practised
- morbidly soft
- admirable and human
- utterly trivial and contemptible
- perfect heraldic
- pasty, sticky
- impenetrable, milky
- yellow, gluey
- hardest or toughest
- fine bell-metal
- soft and buttery
- steadfast and almost proverbial
- imperative and beautiful
- hard and waxy
- vigorous logical
- popular equal
- homely physical
- quiet and robust
- viscous and transparent
- pure grammatical
- clear-eyed intellectual
- popular logical
- sticky and stringy
- antique and austere
- less soapy
- sandy or granular
- rigid ideological
- terrible logical
- calm logical
- comparatively firmer
- complex symbolic
- telltale wispy
- rich gluey
- impeccable lunar
- viscous, leathery
- tactical logical
- wonderfully creamy
- same soupy
- nice, gooey
- thick and unhealthy
- slippery, leathery
- almost fleshy
- tremendous technological
- almost glutinous
- damned ironclad
- continuous but ever-changing
- peculiar tenacious
- clear, grammatical
- inexcusable and comical
- preferred political
- strict and deep
- absolute sceptical
- remorseless logical
- enormous and outrageous
- hard or tough
- rather mushy
- s--logical
- almost chalky
- soft but elastic
- evangelical and scriptural
- almost rubbery
- fearless and unselfish
- excessive scientific
- dreamy far-away
- quite natural and explicable
- highest logical
- greater inner
- greater logical
- equally relentless
- otherwise unstable
- logical and artistic
- harder or softer
- personal ministerial
- more milky
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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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