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 employer
Below is a list of describing words for employer. 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 employer:
- late former
- secretive and clandestine
- uncommon and gigantic
- especially disgusting
- good-natured, sympathetic
- wishful prospective
- richest and most irritable
- notoriously unfair
- competent, shrewd
- ungrateful and unscrupulous
- generous and long-suffering
- probably absent
- such nonresident
- marginal or no-profit
- naturally industrious and thrifty
- good-natured previous
- pettishly exacting
- imperatively good-natured
- universal and most noble
- impersonal corporate
- still prospective
- genial former
- considerate and conscientious
- considerate and philanthropic
- insolvent or dishonest
- irresistible corporate
- prosperous and avaricious
- responsible capitalist
- disagreeably affectionate
- generous and confidential
- good-natured former
- special emblematic
- new and very temporary
- delightful, sympathetic
- less hyperactive
- still unwitting
- last or current
- ordinarily oblivious
- elegant and rhetorical
- unlikely private
- rather tempermental
- scabrous former
- absent or even unknown
- new and totally unsympathetic
- considerate and agreeable
- stern, unemotional
- naturally industrious
- old and liberal
- easy and improvident
- rational white
- sometimes unreasonable
- dour and unsympathetic
- liberal, honest
- well-known and most liberal
- indulgent and honorable
- mere wealthy
- wealthy, young
- exacting and overbearing
- liberal and punctual
- same enraged
- present oppressive
- hard and unjust
- no-profit
- new, would-be
- idle, irresponsible
- less indulgent
- tempermental
- present or previous
- competent modern
- beloved and generous
- genial and indulgent
- largest local
- nice amiable
- soon-to-be former
- last corporate
- good and considerate
- same considerate
- obliging old
- equally reckless
- truly illustrious
- perturbed young
- average bourgeois
- totally unsympathetic
- temporarily absent
- more prodigal
- specially skilled
- selfish and unscrupulous
- largest corporate
- less malleable
- generous and high-minded
- generous and considerate
- same unjust
- once cheerful
- comparatively wealthy
- stern and exacting
- ferocious young
- generous and sympathetic
- now deceased
- modern capitalist
- new temporary
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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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