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 contract
Below is a list of describing words for contract. 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 contract:
- occasional mercenary
- exclusive seven-year
- one-year trial
- fine, favorable
- short-term parental
- open-ended exclusive
- remarkably lucrative
- new two-year
- simple temporal
- reliable, independent
- lawful main
- blank mercenary
- unsigned and nameless
- authentic and voluntary
- absurd civil
- five-year monogamous
- ridiculous, unspeakable
- legal matrimonial
- implicit social
- unwritten but immutable
- hypothetical ideal
- cool and villainous
- pleasant five-year
- fully formal
- standard monogamous
- goddamned ironclad
- exclusive two-year
- multi-year exclusive
- free and purely voluntary
- explicit and purely voluntary
- simple, common-law
- compact or social
- equally immoral and illegal
- lifelong and anti-sentimental
- valid simple
- special customary
- profitable, small
- primitive literal
- lengthy and ironclad
- ordinary consensual
- infamous pecuniary
- informal flimsy
- onerous or improvident
- highly natural and commendable
- rational and obligatory
- naturally valid
- logical and business-like
- private and even oral
- life-long and artificial
- valid and obligatory
- excellent rental
- famous and most lucrative
- virtual mutual
- shrewdly one-sided
- great six-year
- enforceable and valid
- leviathan and social
- special and voluntary
- tacit or implicit
- cost-plus
- old mute
- so-called loose
- unspoken social
- occasional risky
- nice municipal
- mammoth five-year
- unbreakable long-term
- two-season
- ducal betrothal
- fifth one-year
- lucrative, meaningful
- standardized legal
- attractively lucrative
- mere six-month
- corporate or individual
- medium-term civilian
- enthusiastic but unwise
- unlimited cost-plus
- as-yet unsigned
- unusual mercenary
- simple worthless
- seven-year exclusive
- legal pre-nuptial
- inviolable public
- profitable haulage
- remote and imaginary
- solemn verbal
- standard one-year
- certain bilateral
- larger postal
- unreasonable or impossible
- consistent and impartial
- fixed-price
- haphazard matrimonial
- oral or unwritten
- important onerous
- utterly idiotic and suicidal
- idiotic and suicidal
- mutual and perpetual
- definite and unqualified
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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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