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 endeavour
Below is a list of describing words for endeavour. 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 endeavour:
- astounding technological
- protracted but vain
- minor, chaotic
- calm, hopeful
- mechanical, vain
- continuous and purposeful
- collective unified
- commendable industrial
- animate missionary
- stale and slow
- continual, deliberate
- former slavish
- perfectly inconclusive
- conscientious but feeble
- infinitely conscientious
- spirited but misguided
- corresponding constructive
- alert and puissant
- laborious but unsuccessful
- always single-minded
- pathetic and always single-minded
- partly unforeseen and unintentional
- partly unforeseen
- avowedly unremitting
- recent and industrious
- expensive and spirited
- curiously trifling
- ill-timed and futile
- fierce but impotent
- purely futile
- frantic, solitary
- altruistic and disinterested
- solid, painstaking
- arduous and unavailing
- sudden and well-nigh successful
- aggressive and enlightened
- apparently ardent
- constant fearless
- righteous and dutiful
- frantic and almost superhuman
- dangerous and prejudicial
- cautious and solicitous
- comprehensive and thoroughly painstaking
- uttermost and strongest
- rather tireless
- hopeless and essentially immoral
- vain and wild
- rare and unsurpassed
- practically single-handed
- uninterrupted artistic
- ceaseless, constant
- desperate and hostile
- superior and vassal
- petulant and self-willed
- stuff--social
- unceasing and consistent
- self-denial, honest
- primitive missionary
- worthy thine
- honest and hopeful
- utterly impotent
- beauteous vain
- honest and unceasing
- finest criminal
- extreme joint
- altogether kindred
- distinctly fresh
- hitherto futile
- wrong, high
- general and energetic
- thy ill-advised
- honest and terrific
- old preposterous
- utmost and best
- often commonplace
- well-nigh successful
- strenuous and courageous
- mad public
- toilsome and tedious
- aforesaid mental
- similar philanthropic
- strenuous and frantic
- resolute, cheerful
- gallant and forlorn
- strenuous slow
- altogether laudable
- frantically fierce
- constant conscientious
- vain many
- old and futile
- loving and honest
- faint and futile
- potentially difficult
- thy staunch
- human, personal
- premature grave
- almost vain
- joyful, joyful
- foolish narwhal
- rugged youthful
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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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