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 detachment
Below is a list of describing words for detachment. 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 detachment:
- savvy and seeming
- serene avian
- suitably regal
- cool and clinical
- near-clinical
- weakest french
- earnestly loud
- small but earnestly loud
- empty, stonelike
- usual self-confident
- consistent and serene
- soft but complete
- sick and shaky
- comparatively long and complete
- well-equipped photographic
- lofty or airy
- almost professorial
- oddly dispassionate
- somewhat consistent
- apparently callous
- basically sympathetic
- remarkable icy
- critical and cool
- fond, distant
- severe, contemptuous
- remarkable clinical
- calm and omniscient
- necessary philosophic
- affectedly ironical
- undying ironic
- gentle or satirical
- ill-equipped naval
- cynical or ironical
- flippant, smart
- resolute and complete
- truer tragic
- scornful and complete
- calm, dreamlike
- weary and squalid
- probably retinal
- clear and olympian
- possibly preferred
- proper cynical
- new unprecedented
- cool olympian
- mere cool-headed
- pathetic philosophic
- total scientific
- certain uninhibited
- poetic and passionate
- certain clinical
- same schizophrenic
- complete, calm
- calm, malicious
- small, able
- independent, space-based
- necessary ruthless
- calm, lucid
- calm but wary
- quiet and definite
- german or swedish
- den\-tal surgical
- such olympian
- characteristic academic
- mere coolheaded
- rigid, clinical
- splendid ironic
- cold, elfin
- normal cool
- regular three-man
- queer, calm
- inical
- personal three-man
- absolute, icy
- crazed and glacial
- cheerful academic
- prudent professional
- perfect analytical
- continental clinical
- clinical, logical
- passive academic
- real airborne
- current strange
- tolerant and impersonal
- well-drilled, smart
- remote aesthetic
- cold and splendid
- calm and foolhardy
- curious happy
- own comedic
- quixotically impracticable
- lightly agreeable
- persistent and ardent
- mere universal
- mezquital
- essential inherent
- certain infantile
- almost clinical
- sweet, impersonal
- entire individual
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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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