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 departure
Below is a list of describing words for departure. 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 departure:
- radical and even frenzied
- unplanned and apparently permanent
- totally unscheduled
- abrupt and stealthy
- earlier unexpected
- reluctant and hasty
- unfortunately hasty
- sudden and uncivil
- clandestine or unauthorized
- arrival and hasty
- preternaturally unseen
- radical offensive
- final unhurried
- abrupt, new
- unannounced, unexplained
- speedy and soft
- silent and abrupt
- sombre and sad
- tolerably decorous
- tolerably decorous and comfortable
- sudden and eternal
- overdue but unwelcome
- sudden impending
- immediate, secret
- subsequent necessary
- abrupt and secretive
- clean and unchallenged
- swift, calamitous
- arduous or harsh
- swift, unnoticed
- unexplained, unplanned
- purposeful and deliberate
- remarkably nonstandard
- final stealthy
- sudden and creative
- rather sudden and creative
- unwise and needless
- slightly abrupt
- open and abrupt
- courageous and triumphant
- essential and fraudulent
- nonchalant and curt
- jocose or conventional
- hasty and ill-equipped
- violent or wide
- tremendous constitutional
- suggestive and far-reaching
- miserably long and dull
- widest democratic
- casual, business-like
- peaceable voluntary
- plantations--final
- single but grievous
- unhurried and unperturbed
- sudden and absent-minded
- seemingly concerted
- sudden and seemingly concerted
- good-night and fearful
- slow dusty
- obviously unwarrantable
- simple and obviously unwarrantable
- fearless and often reckless
- apparent and imminent
- arrival and equally sudden
- sudden and unauthorized
- sudden and frenzied
- new and very memorable
- stealthy and permanent
- gradual and stealthy
- least fractional
- swift, unkind
- abrupt and wild
- somewhat reluctant but cumulative
- reluctant but cumulative
- usually extravagant
- good navigational
- private rapid
- menacing and abrupt
- uncompromisingly italian and liberal
- uncompromisingly italian
- former sudden
- hasty, inexplicable
- radical and wide
- interesting and radical
- therefore wicked
- injurious and even dangerous
- sorrowful and abrupt
- autumal
- secret and unconscious
- gradual but rapid
- rapid, joyous
- inevitable ultimate
- polite but hasty
- abrupt and silent
- quicker and larger
- sorrowful, silent
- necessary quick
- hasty and unexpected
- earliest available
- continually promising
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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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