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 demand
Below is a list of describing words for demand. 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 demand:
- depressed international
- average monetary
- insistent popular
- recurrent, imperative
- last unreasonable
- apparently fair and reasonable
- well-placed final
- general urgent
- extensive or urgent
- large unfulfilled
- full nationalist
- frenzied public
- unexpected and most unnecessary
- conceivable unjust
- general and very insistent
- due and real
- individual monetary
- maximum monetary
- eager popular
- formal and intrinsic
- unreasonable or insolent
- powerful insistent
- separate and imperative
- sudden and exceptionally large
- especial and imperative
- aristocratic four-in-hand
- general and persistent
- imperious physical
- initial outrageous
- relentless, urgent
- taut, urgent
- foolish and almost impracticable
- apparently imperative
- fierce, startling
- new, macabre
- inappropriate and incongruous
- rigid fantastical
- universal or very wide
- local, present
- particular reciprocal
- extra foreign
- violent and insistent
- present cynical
- similar and subsequent
- unprecedented and extortionate
- insatiable local
- gentle but never weak
- extreme and insolent
- strange and unwarranted
- consumer-driven
- last insolent
- gruff, insolent
- immediate and impressive
- fairly militant
- healthy per-capita
- appropriate commercial
- peremptory, predictable
- urgent and very elemental
- supply global
- final rhetorical
- increasingly well-paid
- general and urgent
- gratingly harsh
- ever-increasing public
- eager, unceasing
- maddening and unuttered
- inner and truthful
- normal and local
- abnormal and avaricious
- above-mentioned immense
- considerable and certain
- steady and proportionate
- facile and moderate
- now ever-increasing
- _individual monetary
- extraordinary and totally unexpected
- hot, captious
- nation-wide and irresistible
- deceptive and apparently plausible
- imperative financial
- speculative but genuine
- private weal
- further, false
- new and almost revolutionary
- maximum nationalist
- joint eight-hour
- strong, unchecked
- urgent and extraordinary
- inevitable and mighty
- imperative british
- universal and vehement
- equally universal and vehement
- infinite, imperious
- steadily voracious
- unprecedented and increasingly enormous
- imperious and belligerent
- foolish but pathetic
- straightforward, respectful
- imperious and insistent
- extensive and incessant
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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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