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 digestion
Below is a list of describing words for digestion. 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 digestion:
- loyally perfect
- detectable physical
- other and mental
- kindly normal
- hence slow
- hence imperfect
- impatient legal
- ostrich, extraordinary
- articulate intellectual
- hence defective
- coloured, simple
- ceaseless and unending
- perfect and singularly rapid
- still sensible and vigorous
- thy logical
- almost palpable and tangible
- weakest and most sensitive
- sluggish or overactive
- badly deranged
- faulty or natural
- mature official
- hasty or solemn
- overtaxed canine
- good intestinal
- ~--mechanical
- leisurely mental
- incomplete or difficult
- fermentation and then long
- weak or disordered
- subsequent healthy
- spontaneous enzymatic
- still sensible
- imperfect or sluggish
- pleasing and wholesome
- good gastric
- probable rapid
- parenteral
- extra-stomachal
- healthy and undisturbed
- imperfect or faulty
- separate good
- younger literary
- male mental
- good horticultural
- usually defective
- healthy, stubborn
- real weak
- weak and painful
- _intestinal
- especially weak
- abnormally weak
- weak or delicate
- ~animal
- most perfect
artificial - finest intellectual
- chronically poor
- vaunted good
- gastric
- difficult or painful
- salivary
- virtual perpetual
- stomachal
- wholesome, normal
- powerful and rapid
- strong, robust
- singularly rapid
- ~intestinal
- rapid and perfect
- almost bovine
- happy and easy
- rather unreliable
- gastric and intestinal
- grand civic
- good normal
- healthy spiritual
- larger mental
- less laborious
- such inexorable
- ~chemical
- corporeal and spiritual
- perfectly marvelous
- political and material
- rapid and complete
- intestinal
- individual personal
- remarkably complete
- healthy and active
- duodenal
- slow, difficult
- poor wretched
- easy and quick
- famous national
- perhaps bad
- naturally weak
- unusually active
- enzymatic
- unimpaired
- swiftest possible
- good and easy
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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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