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 destiny
Below is a list of describing words for destiny. 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 destiny:
- already independent
- manifest racial
- small but dreadful
- dim and tragic
- so-called manifest
- thine adverse
- royal or ruinous
- fantastic sentimental
- joint racial
- dynamic manifest
- unimaginably glorious
- sometime tragic
- separate and infinitely high
- blind and inscrutable
- worth and eternal
- unknown but fearful
- historic or providential
- ruthless ordinary
- disastrously impending
- libyan thy
- benevolent manifest
- peaceful utilitarian
- manifest and peculiar
- great unitary
- prosaic biological
- low, knotted
- damned sterile
- vile seductive
- short and mortal
- absolute and sublime
- vague, immaterial
- inexorable national
- economic, ethnic and political
- far eventful
- unknown, mad
- steady righteous
- peculiarly sterile
- consequent noble
- dark, ungrateful
- dumb and dark
- tremendous, inevitable
- manifestly opposite
- awe-inspiring, exalted
- ever august and unerring
- august and unerring
- unrelenting evil
- unified and splendid
- airy and exalted
- miraculous, majestic
- dark dual
- obscure and extremely limited
- common doleful
- ultimate and unique
- exalted and benignant
- cruel and immutable
- unknown and possibly dreadful
- wonderful, cruel
- dark, adverse
- sinister spiritual
- heartless and irrelevant
- stormy but illustrious
- blind, unavoidable
- own valueless
- apparently relentless
- bitter and apparently relentless
- cruel, fantastical
- strenuous male
- bigger eventual
- blind but intelligent
- glorious, illustrious
- inevitable and splendid
- worth and auspicious
- remote individual
- transient tragic
- incredibly cruel and malicious
- unseen and remorseless
- irreversible and miserable
- unknown but exalted
- great or strange
- inept, extravagant
- meaningless and unintelligible
- capriciously evil
- nameless, absolute
- awful, unflinching
- strange and adverse
- difficult but glorious
- more overweening
- ruthless and unrelenting
- own funereal
- mysterious larger
- silent, impersonal
- blind, inexorable
- probable and desirable
- inevitable and merciless
- possible larger
- obscure and rigorous
- strange and separate
- same transcendent
- austere and exalted
- always bloody
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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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