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 decision
Below is a list of describing words for decision. 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 decision:
- unwelcome, such
- dumbest military
- tactically correct
- devastating unilateral
- terrible, difficult
- thought-out, logical
- bloody simple
- inevitable but immoral
- completely easy
- cruel but simple
- final, harsh
- initial, fateful
- conscious, cold-blooded
- sensible tactical
- dangerous and heartfelt
- unwise and absurd
- bad or unlucky
- welcome spontaneous
- totally inverse
- speedy and righteous
- monumentally foolish
- honorable but difficult
- sudden, dreamy
- tough or questionable
- regrettable but probably wise
- ready and serene
- calm legal
- personal and definite
- fiery, hasty
- short caustic
- momentous, ultimate
- infallible and ultimate
- incremental near-term
- single well-intentioned
- substantive judgmental
- wild and potentially dangerous
- difficult but heroic
- wise and prosaic
- somber and momentous
- drastic and possibly far-reaching
- difficult and agonizing
- unilateral and irrevocable
- collective but somewhat reluctant
- dangerous and extremely ill-advised
- agreeable theological
- next unanimous
- inevitable artistic
- courageous and momentous
- rapid strategical
- definite and speedy
- magnificent spontaneous
- fateful and ignominious
- weighty epoch-making
- positive and irrevocable
- unanswerable or puzzling
- practical and harmonious
- utterly erroneous or unjust
- final or definite
- quick and usually accurate
- irrevocable dogmatic
- majestic and uncompromising
- recent solemn
- free ethical
- transparent and public
- arguably immoral
- rapid and sensible
- definite and drastic
- quiet and cultured
- nasty, cold-blooded
- usual incomparable
- swift and momentous
- decentralized economic
- highly unauthorized
- singular passionate
- almost virile
- humane and strategic
- masterful tactical
- ridiculous and totally arbitrary
- critical inner
- probably wise
- joint interracial
- free and own
- entirely clear-cut
- sudden but difficult
- stupid, untenable
- perhaps irrevocable
- typically hasty
- rather underhanded
- wholly unilateral
- harsh and honest
- initial stupid
- foolish and unpatriotic
- wrong strategic
- courageous and logical
- dramatic and potentially ominous
- remarkably rational
- mutual lousy
- sexist editorial
- extra-legal, extra-judicial
- wise and acceptable
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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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