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 emperor
Below is a list of describing words for emperor. 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 emperor:
- great and pacific
- great and orthodox
- timid and wasteful
- glorious and most august
- second, german
- exceedingly affable and full
- last byzantine
- sole and victorious
- devout or jealous
- present byzantine
- powerful and most warlike
- ephemeral french
- would-be apathetic
- dummy ceremonial
- weak former
- late eternal
- barbaric ethiopian
- illustrious and brilliant
- disgusting heathen
- cruel profligate
- aforementioned infamous
- warlike and vigilant
- needy austrian
- great and most wise
- powerless byzantine
- distressed and itinerant
- forceful and incorruptible
- rich powerful
- untried and perhaps unstable
- inconvenient new
- properly remote
- exceptionally idiotic
- great vietnamese
- present self-styled
- childless last
- self-styled illustrious
- currently ill
- currently ill and invisible
- new, underage
- admiral and equally strong-willed
- public, rogue
- new corrupt
- lazy and feeble
- extremely simple and elegant
- good and contemplative
- timid and absent-minded
- volatile and epileptic
- great but egotistical
- titular german
- indebted austrian
- exalted and most powerful
- extraneous austrian
- pliant german
- generally gay and ready
- tolerably sane
- fickle or restless
- rival pagan
- indulgent, youthful
- strong or energetic
- sufficiently strong or energetic
- devout but literary
- omniscient german
- versatile and auspicious
- powerful and far-sighted
- easy-going, incompetent
- crafty and adventurous
- feeble chinese
- white-haired, careworn
- helpless austrian
- extraordinary and perverse
- young and afterwards illustrious
- cosmopolitan buddhist
- uneasy but confident
- incompetent chinese
- most gentlemanly
- tolerant and always sensible
- suave and feeble
- cruel and worthless
- present magnanimous
- able and youthful
- magnificent and unfortunate
- mad, ambitious
- weary but self-confident
- pallid, silent
- now remote and inaccessible
- cruel and self-indulgent
- distant and vaguely magnificent
- sinister excellent
- mighty sole
- decorous and popular
- somewhat older and graver
- humane chinese
- chinese elective
- revolutionary and all-powerful
- profane german
- now phantom
- shadowy and impotent
- last galactic
- naturally noble and generous
- warlike and successful
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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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