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 dignity
Below is a list of describing words for dignity. 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 dignity:
- gentle and exquisitely modest
- cross-legged alien
- sweet and capable
- fierce, apologetic
- precisely judicial
- sinister totalitarian
- exquisitely modest
- tattered and tragic
- worth and solid
- cheerful but solid
- visionary and primeval
- serenely cockeyed
- regal overbearing
- mighty god-like
- great high-strung
- impressive stolid
- wholly quiet
- sub-regal
- gray but unbroken
- abbotorial
- impassible and awful
- aristocratic, haughty
- stiff and forlorn
- masculine and magisterial
- undeniable, massive
- episcopal and ecclesiastical
- unusual and almost menacing
- decisive and unthinking
- calm and pompous
- impersonal and expressionless
- unaffected and indescribable
- inflexible and slow
- sudden and native
- feminine and peculiar
- sour and virtuous
- majestic and condescending
- furious red-cheeked
- resilient, vertical
- immense intrinsic
- paternal and magisterial
- quiet, patriotic
- conscious tragic
- habitual native
- certain miniature
- pious and severe
- severe and frigid
- noble serene
- government--regal
- youthful magisterial
- nervous slipshod
- open, gracious
- proper icy
- imperial and hereditary
- stiff patrician
- damned complacent
- youthful and characteristic
- native unaffected
- magisterial and orthodox
- regal, public
- such apostolical
- curious and profound
- serious but graceful
- additional and solemn
- full, angry
- grave and habitual
- innate and graceful
- ineffectual six-year-old
- infinite easy
- native and naked
- pale and pathetic
- sedate self-contained
- calm, inanimate
- proud, philosophical
- solemn and ponderous
- happy consistent
- clumsy but impressive
- newborn moral
- refined graceful
- courteous old-fashioned
- pre-existence and superhuman
- singular, wonderful
- matchless, serene
- much hierarchal
- unimpeachable royal
- stiffly pompous
- piteous regal
- serene and virtuous
- confident, self-conscious
- ponderous and sorrowful
- episcopal or electoral
- imperious and even majestic
- conscious royal
- masculine marital
- pathetic and cordial
- somewhat cold but gentle
- cold defensive
- frugal and antique
- severe but quiet
- proper aristocratic
- strange august
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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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