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 contribution
Below is a list of describing words for contribution. 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 contribution:
- original and very valuable
- stranger--total
- realistic and decidedly original
- substantial editorial
- relative creative
- original impromptu
- genuinely asiatic
- net imperial
- significant and imperishable
- brilliant and crystalline
- truly brilliant and crystalline
- steady and material
- small but pertinent
- astute and important
- large and completely voluntary
- interesting, authentic and reliable
- perennially important
- signal and perennially important
- precious unique
- eccentric charitable
- unimaginably important
- worthwhile original
- unsteady and precarious
- magnificent and imperishable
- energetic or significant
- liberal and widespread
- spontaneous, generous
- voluntary but really compulsory
- smallest and most superficial
- major and exceptional
- due and well proportioned
- absolutely meritless
- useful and unpretentious
- tireless and effective
- astounding and valuable
- sole reproductive
- outstanding and valuable
- revolutionary and final
- original, revolutionary and final
- adequate voluntary
- heavy and unwarrantable
- attractive and eloquent
- new and highly indigestible
- highly appropriate and acceptable
- old neighbours--real
- neighbours--real
- fresh and irreducible
- permanent and capital
- direct acceptable
- indirect voluntary
- net initial
- small and exotic
- characteristic and most precious
- important and very instructive
- unheard-of enormous
- unexpected and extremely welcome
- substantial and distinctive
- distinctively inventive
- smaller reproductive
- positive and valuable
- intelligent and rather solemn
- hazy and speculative
- rather hazy and speculative
- complementary and valuable
- definable and positive
- essentially beautiful and satisfying
- essentially beautiful
- latest and most brilliant
- voluntary and promiscuous
- chief idealistic
- suggestive and pertinent
- enormous but yet possible
- important nor remarkable
- liberal personal
- especially distinct and worthy
- short and tentative
- pointless and insignificant
- worthy and permanent
- massive and most amazing
- incisive and liberal
- conscientious and reliable
- consequent maximum
- temperate and instructive
- decidedly new and important
- distinctive recent
- terribly trivial
- uplifting and apostolic
- wonderfully uplifting and apostolic
- short recent
- _only genuine
- genuinely desirable
- interesting & important
- conspicuous real
- annual determinate
- significant anthropological
- annual and anonymous
- agreeable, gossipy
- generous atmospheric
- exorbitant and unprecedented
- important, systematic
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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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