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 delayed
Below is a list of describing words for delayed. 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 delayed:
- reluctant, amorous
- reluctant amorous
- relevant chronological
- further avoidable
- trifling and wearisome
- un-conscionably long
- inevitable further
- regular six-minute
- considerable bureaucratic
- timorous and doubtful
- built-in ten-minute
- ordinarily insignificant
- higher acceptable
- totally frustrating
- inevitable and totally frustrating
- temporarily life-saving
- least avoidable
- denial or unnecessary
- unnecessary or unreasonable
- tiny further
- least practicable
- further needless
- further and unprofitable
- constantly protracted
- unavoidable and fatal
- denial or undue
- similar intentional
- long and artful
- listless dull
- much vexatious
- least possible
- down neural
- unexpected ten-day
- standard two-hour
- three-second round-trip
- drastic and fatal
- brief, inevitable
- equally unavoidable
- three-second signal
- refusal and subsequent
- reluctant truculent
- two-hour vexatious
- long but unavoidable
- avoidable and most undesirable
- inevitable and very considerable
- additional tedious
- hence long
- irksome and perhaps inconvenient
- long or unwarrantable
- protracted and unavoidable
- contemptuous and artful
- considerable needless
- further and wholly natural
- impious, strange
- inevitable and possibly fatal
- least unendurable
- protracted and fatal
- perennial and everlasting
- incomprehensible and mad
- hot portentous
- maren--fatal
- semi-feudal routine
- necessary but wearisome
- short insufficient
- seemingly unforgivable
- careless but not criminal
- already great and embarrassing
- nearly two-year
- reluctant sweet
- minimum further
- desperate and further
- long and democratic
- long unavoidable
- long and apparently needless
- extraordinary or unnecessary
- hideous legal
- quite unreasonable and impossible
- intentionally long
- inexcusable and almost criminal
- slight signal
- such reluctant
- brief necessary
- simply unnecessary
- otherwise unwelcome
- inevitable and deplorable
- evidently supernatural
- decent and discreet
- further weak
- full, many
- further troublesome
- ten-minute medical
- momentary but appreciable
- six-hour built-in
- chancy postal
- mighty pleasurable
- endlessly dangerous
- endless and endlessly dangerous
- two-month signal
- momentarily crippling
- usual frustrating
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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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