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 diplomacy
Below is a list of describing words for diplomacy. 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 diplomacy:
- adroit and flawless
- new and military
- little face-saving
- sinister and secret
- trifling and treacherous
- relentless and machiavellian
- adroit, insincere
- subtle and specialized
- effective interstellar
- accordingly japanese
- costly worldwide
- quarrelsome and unscrupulous
- skilful and concerted
- recent pan-american
- earlier marital
- forth moorish
- tedious moorish
- loving and alert
- venomous secret
- astute byzantine
- secret and mendacious
- cunning and far-reaching
- decisive and comprehensive
- dull and devious
- old-style secret
- brilliant or deep
- present rumanian
- vicious oriental
- utmost marital
- clear-eyed, judicious
- shrewd and proud
- skillful, shrewd and proud
- unskilled or malicious
- self-sufficient, insulting
- finest and most adroit
- last, chinese
- british pre-war
- sweet and long-cherished
- insincere or crafty
- timid european
- profound and deceitful
- meanwhile european
- crafty politic
- deferential, australasian and canadian
- forward spanish
- unscrupulous but supremely skilful
- handicapped british
- imminent and spanish
- late senatorial
- cool and well-balanced
- powerful and mutually jealous
- merely protective
- imperfect german
- tedious and seemingly unnecessary
- devious byzantine
- high-powered byzantine
- difficult and tiresome
- high interstellar
- traditional international
- shifty oriental
- perhaps marital
- usual skilful
- ruthless and effective
- turbulent and aggressive
- interplanetary or interregional
- treacherous and unpatriotic
- delicate marital
- natural, untrained
- cool and cunning
- vigilant and able
- usual devious
- adroit and capable
- delicate and indefinable
- spanish and papal
- cunning and pitiless
- british matrimonial
- similar persuasive
- convincing european
- astute, unfathomable
- preferred german
- subtle and skilful
- much crafty
- present questionable
- suave political
- little, artful
- vigorous and open
- wily french
- farcical secret
- calm and skilful
- australasian and canadian
- cool and consummate
- immediately pre-war
- own preventive
- lightest and most delicate
- energetic and methodical
- open and underground
- complex european
- usual unscrupulous
- much skilful
- usual keen
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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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