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 currencies
Below is a list of describing words for currencies. 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 currencies:
- metallic or convertible
- freely convertible
- exclusive metallic
- stable convertible
- assorted planetary
- european single
- relative foreign
- present, ethiopian
- assorted galactic
- internationally convertible
- freely usable
- preferred linguistic
- immediate liquid
- next weakest
- much negotiable
- exclusively metallic
- standard or international
- quite healthy and vital
- intangible and fuzzy
- own, local and humble
- much-needed foreign
- local and humble
- unpopular global
- new eritrean
- economical and sure
- obsolete, physical
- mass-produced social
- bogus postal
- eerily strong
- stronger swedish
- biggest hard
- much-needed hard
- hard universal
- tattered foreign
- enough galactic
- debt-free new
- limited hard
- invariable and well-regulated
- irredeemable and worthless
- partial ecclesiastical
- previous metallic
- heterogeneous corporate
- new gold-backed
- safe redeemable
- solvent, convertible
- unstable, dishonest
- reliable, steadfast
- contemporary metallic
- civilised and common
- unlimited lawful
- purely fiduciary
- supply actual
- general actual
- familiar decimal
- mystic and separate
- acceptable or efficient
- available linguistic
- variable, irredeemable
- worn-out verbal
- active extensive
- dreadful fractional
- hard lunar
- vital hard
- own world-wide
- proper digital
- true or perfect
- useful hard
- assorted human
- scarce foreign
- ancient or obsolete
- flexible international
- hard-earned foreign
- excellent counterfeit
- intentionally transitory
- kinda soft
- unequivocally hard
- enough israeli
- non-notional
- impossible, new
- counterfeit local
- just nicaraguan
- universal interdimensional
- decimal bloody
- everywhere legal
- official and statistical
- partial metallic
- permanent and standard
- honest, stable
- new decimal
- new philippine
- appropriate minor
- cumulative hard
- convenient and stable
- net autumnal
- relatively redundant
- counterfeit religious
- stable colonial
- ample federal
- adequate internal
- hard and legal
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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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