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 enthusiast
Below is a list of describing words for enthusiast. 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 enthusiast:
- passionate, young
- quiet and sublime
- technically talented
- artless but ardent
- generous, creative
- youthful and eccentric
- visionary or political
- somewhat mad
- energetic phonetic
- poor talkative
- single-minded religious
- young but stern
- fanatical, unpractical
- ardent, religious
- overweening and tiresome
- fairest and chief
- honest idiotic
- insatiable, genuine
- true ostrich
- perhaps amiable
- protectress--celestial
- young protectress--celestial
- turbulent and refractory
- eloquent, half-crazy
- weird, religious
- poor, unbalanced
- visionary or theoretical
- quick, susceptible
- impracticable and impatient
- young and blind
- honest but visionary
- mad, scheming
- affectionate, religious
- deluded and culpable
- extremely curious and rare
- gentle, warm-blooded
- exceptional solitary
- apprehensive and visionary
- fearless, deluded
- illiterate or frenzied
- overbearing visionary
- unhealthy, unlucky
- optimistic conservative
- honest and deluded
- solitary, singular
- young, simple-minded
- gentle, grey-haired
- well-known eccentric
- last impudent
- ardent vocal
- wealthy freelance
- presumptuous and heretical
- amiable and original
- antiquated or obscure
- generous creative
- young economic
- mild oriental
- atheist or religious
- handsome and fluent
- idle or vague
- clever and sincere
- courteous literary
- visionary but honest
- imaginary musical
- mere ecstatic
- worthy and sincere
- zealous and self-sacrificing
- eccentric religious
- unknown, beautiful
- gloomy and superstitious
- wild, hare-brained
- noisy talkative
- military sci-fi
- small ecstatic
- weak, shallow
- ardent literary
- mystic and religious
- enough, young
- young and hot
- generous, reckless
- wild and eager
- innocent, wise
- wild and dreamy
- particularly crazy
- gallant new
- weak sentimental
- young evangelical
- young poetic
- painstaking young
- respectable european
- thorough literary
- heretical religious
- utterly unpractical
- rapt young
- bright, talkative
- modern and practical
- eloquent irish
- sole scientific
- former young
- young religious
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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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