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 conviction
Below is a list of describing words for conviction. 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 conviction:
- special, awful
- devious but increasingly strong
- painful and positive
- unsteady but gruesome
- curious but unshakeable
- profound unshakable
- inward private
- clever, dull
- fullest judicial
- absolute, overwhelming
- rhetorical and fugitive
- fleeting but certain
- court-martial and certain
- full and naive
- sullen and unanimous
- joyful and yet painful
- contradictory, honest
- deep-seated and immovable
- unspoken but powerful
- sudden unshakable
- ancient subconscious
- evident profound
- subtle but invincible
- clear and insurmountable
- contrary, profound
- clear and long-established
- instantaneous and final
- perhaps sincere
- perhaps exasperated
- vivid and ever-present
- strong, involuntary
- gradually less and more
- shamelessly specious
- deep but involuntary
- fevered, panicky
- lifelong innocent
- instantaneous and unalterable
- trial, speedy
- secret but overpowering
- secret imperishable
- strange, unemotional
- genuine and deepest
- sufficiently optimistic
- profoundest intellectual
- far-reaching, utter
- usually deep-rooted
- genuine and usually deep-rooted
- justifiable, such
- unconquerable, imperial
- necessary and generous
- double personal
- sad but immovable
- intuitive and necessary
- common idealistic
- full and reluctant
- intimate, deliberate
- heartfelt, active
- partly sorrowful
- sober and partly sorrowful
- old methodological
- grateful, influential
- innermost religious
- full, mournful
- profound and staggering
- inward sure
- purest coldest
- uneasy but irresistible
- rational and independent
- usual discontented
- rather baseless
- deep and thorough
- impossible, lunatic
- slightly irrational
- sudden and weary
- thorough and universal
- abrupt and wrenching
- previous inner
- irrationally obstinate
- senseless, deep
- easy and delicious
- previously unproved
- unflinching, cold
- deep-seated and entire
- infinitely greater and deeper
- intuitive, deep
- sympathetically sad
- entire and solemn
- silent but general
- profound and joyous
- manly religious
- simple and manly religious
- egotistical, divine
- unshakable feminine
- fortunate and laudable
- simple and buoyant
- apathetic general
- subjective independent
- rather suitable and fortunate
- gladly resolute
- fundamental and unswerving
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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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