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 disciples
Below is a list of describing words for disciples. 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 disciples:
- true and most faithful
- foremost teenage
- keenest archaeological
- secret and imperfect
- self-willed false
- lately sorrowful
- loving and eloquent
- true but defective
- faithful and not unsuccessful
- ardent jewish
- meek receptive
- sanguine and absurd
- affectionate, fickle
- trenchant and energetic
- impetuous and unstable
- dull and almost stupid
- zealous and favorite
- erratic and wild
- enthusiastic and trenchant
- avowed ardent
- impulsive but repentant
- excessively zealous
- humblest, poverty-stricken
- affectionate and eager
- rational contemporary
- hitherto stanchest
- out-and-out greasy
- beloved artistic
- divine and beloved
- young, open-mouthed
- loyal, negligible
- still few and indigent
- humble but life-long
- submissive and sympathetic
- tolerant and hearty
- discerning faithful
- degenerate and reactionary
- prominent genuine
- loving and studious
- extreme and talented
- dull and incompetent
- needy, clever
- brilliant and unfaithful
- zealous, unrestrained
- perplexing and ardent
- staunchly enthusiastic
- less-experienced european
- pornographic, other
- nearly ignorant
- wisest and most subtle
- young and nearly ignorant
- innocent or humble
- fervent and intelligent
- ignorant and pliant
- blind and docile
- wholly ignorant and pliant
- young and reverent
- eager or intelligent
- chief rightist
- chief leftist
- discreet and appreciative
- late and distant
- uncertain but yet ardent
- far-sighted and resolute
- individual jewish
- obscure, unnoticed
- fair but unconscious
- zealous and skilful
- young and glib
- oldest and fiercest
- else unwitting
- freckled, perspiring
- exceedingly perfect
- feeble and incompetent
- forth jubilant
- fiery and imaginative
- docile darwinian
- faithful and fervent
- undogmatical
- zealous and trustworthy
- untrained, untamed
- now sincere
- credulous and interested
- real philological
- courageous and valuable
- worthy and welcome
- thither zealous
- chief nineteenth-century
- silent but rabid
- loving and zealous
- ardent political
- many and sincere
- most favored
- meek, loving
- fair but false
- elegant and harmonious
- faithful and brilliant
- western literary
- numerous secular
- stern peremptory
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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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