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 enthusiasm
Below is a list of describing words for enthusiasm. 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 enthusiasm:
- sufficiently noisy
- suicidal and impractical
- current girlish
- usually rebellious
- jubilant and uncontrolled
- half-hearted and doubtful
- somewhat half-hearted and doubtful
- downright infectious
- simple revolutionary
- wildest and most passionate
- cordial and joyous
- of--tropical
- sentimental sad
- phosphorial
- raw technological
- sunny, mad
- sheer, frenzied
- pious and warlike
- distinguishable vigorous
- uncritical and indiscriminate
- rousing artificial
- reckless self-sufficient
- ever fresh and youthful
- intense, inflexible
- down messianic
- national gymnastic
- sincere pious
- usual lyrical
- much devout
- zeal and fiery
- useless but fashionable
- zeal and ignorant
- chipper, clear-headed
- sincere and urgent
- innocent uncensored
- rampant and acceptable
- cool idealistic
- wildest and most sensational
- beautiful, unaffected
- resolute feudal
- ambitious and unthinking
- polemic and religious
- poetic and sincere
- warm, poetic and sincere
- fiery missionary
- wholly fortunate
- contagious and passionate
- genuine antiquarian
- great religio-sexual
- enlightened and serious
- unconscious, fierce
- former fanatical
- spontaneous, unanimous
- far devout
- forth indescribable
- transient and vain
- great and unrestrained
- rapt and hysterical
- genuine and romantic
- cordial and serious
- blind and restless
- strong but transient
- fierce and inexhaustible
- indescribable national
- favourably religious
- amorous or sublime
- communist and religious
- noble and self-contained
- earlier unbounded
- keener religious
- great, cathartic
- passionate and ever-growing
- ludicrous and idle
- morbid and oblique
- reverential and deep
- almost indiscreet
- excessive juvenile
- wild and intense
- mad national
- grave and even solemn
- artfully feigned
- previous childlike
- false or feeble
- visible or vocal
- thorough, wholehearted
- fawning, fraudulent
- undisguised boyish
- popular telepathic
- quiet but most contagious
- unusual and genuine
- pious but morbid
- genuine and overwhelming
- perhaps premature
- habitual national
- zealous and passionate
- tranquil and mild
- passionate, noisy
- steady and universal
- inexplicable but genuine
- momentary and fallacious
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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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