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 disappearances
Below is a list of describing words for disappearances. 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 disappearances:
- ol inexplicable
- further inexplicable
- total and unexplained
- sudden and completely unexplained
- sudden and hitherto unexplained
- mysterious and temporary
- far broader and more
- gradual rosy
- recent and unaccountable
- alternate periodical
- miraculous, incomprehensible
- apparently sudden and tragical
- further unexplained
- abrupt, noiseless
- completely unexplained
- unaccountable and perfidious
- impossible and mysterious
- almost osmotic
- recent and much-publicized
- slow but entire
- sudden and ungracious
- melancholy funereal
- entire, gradual
- unquestionably accurate and clear
- complete and very sudden
- sudden and almost unaccountable
- subsequent startling
- final and welcome
- gradual and universal
- mysterious and heart-rending
- own coincidental
- equally sudden and mysterious
- quiet and magical
- later entire
- mysterious joint
- removal and complete
- resentful and sudden
- abrupt and uncivil
- sudden and inexcusable
- mysterious and unauthorized
- frequent, sudden and complete
- woodland and complete
- subsequent sudden
- hasty and complete
- rapid and utter
- strange and most complete
- strange and unexplainable
- sudden and mysterious
- previous mysterious
- moderately alarming
- puzzling human
- usual limber
- more, further
- sudden, unwilling
- several momentary
- final, unexplained
- spontaneous total
- dramatic, mysterious
- absolutely mysterious
- magical and somewhat sudden
- abrupt, unexplained
- unexplained overnight
- crisp and definite
- silent, instantaneous
- troubling and inexplicable
- subsequent unexplained
- sudden but not unexpected
- constant and mysterious
- extra tragic
- unforeseen and mysterious
- strange and seemingly unaccountable
- previous spontaneous
- late hasty
- contemporaneous and mysterious
- sudden and tragical
- perfectly providential
- complete and irreparable
- sudden and very surprising
- complete and mysterious
- absolute, final
- rather proximate
- total and unnecessary
- sudden and permanent
- supposedly mystical
- former mysterious
- further wholesale
- absolute and sudden
- numerous and frequent
- quite abrupt
- unquestionably accurate
- abrupt and dramatic
- extraordinary and sinister
- peculiarly opportune
- curiously complete
- sudden and shocking
- seemingly unaccountable
- complete external
- equally unaccountable
- recent mysterious
- sudden and final
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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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