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 defenders
Below is a list of describing words for defenders. 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 defenders:
- past male
- traditional, symbolical
- talented, fearless
- tenacious civilian
- zealous and resolute
- unimaginative robotic
- electronic planetary
- constant and gallant
- wisest and most intrepid
- noblest and most loyal
- fanatical japanese
- strong and merciful
- last and most gallant
- avowedly quixotical
- bravest and most obstinate
- blind, intrepid
- fearless, nerveless
- reluctant but effective
- uncompromising and eloquent
- down disorganized
- crusty and reclusive
- down beleaguered
- skilled, well-trained
- enraged and impotent
- dissident or outspoken
- last hard-line
- young and already well-known
- frayed human
- mere horrible
- many and respectable
- patriotic and safe
- georgian out-and-out
- zealous and dauntless
- rare and timorous
- weak-kneed and rather apologetic
- fearless and terrible
- rude and tipsy
- faithful or courageous
- jovial, loyal
- late, zealous
- zealous and humble
- absolute and strong
- valiant and unselfish
- fifth, good
- loyal and constant
- loyal, valiant
- able, outspoken
- resolute and fanatical
- perpetual and constitutional
- ardent and conspicuous
- georgian and ardent
- indignant and powerful
- gallant and gilt-edged
- also indignant and powerful
- skilful and erudite
- also indignant
- invincible and puissant
- junior, sole
- courageous and virtuous
- prominent and faithful
- obdurate judicial
- nevertheless staunch
- vigorous or chivalrous
- hungry but indomitable
- robust and resolute
- tireless and heroic
- ardent and ferocious
- german true
- faithful, able and brilliant
- brave civilian
- bravest and most zealous
- brave but few
- stalwart and prominent
- dead and brave
- eloquent but equally ardent
- staunchest clerical
- loyal and skilled
- hopelessly gallant
- pious and successful
- enthusiastic and chivalrous
- generally astute
- male public
- vigorous and doctrinaire
- warmhearted public
- good and dependable
- staunchest and most resourceful
- necessarily die-hard
- defensive public
- clerical and magical
- cautious, stubborn
- fanatically stubborn
- eloquent, underpaid
- fierce and well-prepared
- court-appointed public
- fiercest and most outspoken
- annoyingly adroit
- valiant, critical
- passionate and adamant
- bravest and most heroic
- local stalwart
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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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