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 demeanor
Below is a list of describing words for demeanor. 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 demeanor:
- unmistakably cool
- excessively grave
- suddenly modest
- courteous and bland
- mild-mannered and quiet
- serious and self-contained
- singularly serious and self-contained
- decent and dainty
- icy nighttime
- lofty and regal
- calm and somber
- tbrmal
- more tbrmal
- properly pedagogical
- often cold and serious
- defiantly audacious
- deliberate and indifferent
- mystic and pompously solemn
- pompously solemn
- various and high-handed
- wild and almost frantic
- sinister, furtive
- aggressively businesslike
- certain fortress-like
- stern and stiff
- incongruously sorrowful
- entire audial
- reckless and furious
- gay and courteous
- singularly serious
- new ladylike
- otherwise businesslike
- reasonably calm
- calm, intense
- unhurried, casual
- magnificently frigid
- satisfactory and polite
- slow, inanimate
- reckless and unmoved
- bafflingly serene
- perfectly quiet and modest
- indeed affable
- plaintively modest
- rustic, unpolished
- expressionless, passive
- alert and martial
- vivid, alert and martial
- actively joyous
- indeed humble
- severe and correct
- clever and opportunistic
- distinctly fierce
- rigorously proper
- otherwise professional
- stiff, uptight
- notably malevolent
- appropriately tentative
- convincingly magisterial
- icy, aloof
- fearless and regal
- entirely business-oriented
- somehow arrogant
- languid and unruffled
- brisk and even truculent
- self-effacing, cheerful
- traditional cool
- politely supercilious
- informal and often eccentric
- submissive and quiet
- usually sad and quiet
- gawky and timid
- quiet and uninterested
- unconsciously proud and gentle
- rough, saucy
- fawning and sycophantic
- courteous official
- august but glib
- zeal and gentle
- staid and calm
- habitually staid and calm
- habitually staid
- confident, assertive
- modest and ladylike
- studiously impressive
- proper reticent
- inexpressibly aristocratic
- wary and decorous
- wholly urbane
- wholly urbane and conciliatory
- impatient and lofty
- oppressive haughty
- pleasant and unruffled
- amiable meek
- irresolute and timid
- grotesquely haughty
- contrite, abject
- grave and almost troubled
- generally winsome
- abstracted and careless
- self-contained, impenetrable
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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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