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 epoch
Below is a list of describing words for epoch. 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 epoch:
- tranquil present
- earliest secondary
- _interglacial
- impending bourgeois
- distant and disastrous
- famous and most vigorous
- last glacial
- indefinably remote
- prodigiously intellectual
- serene and somewhat dull
- unquiet and delightful
- whole glacial
- by-gone barbarous
- tranquil, unruffled
- whole tertiary
- minor glacial
- bimillennial
- fortunate and triumphant
- happiest and most durable
- discreetly remote
- initial and most turbulent
- last mythological
- primitive medieval
- earlier conceivable
- fertile and dangerous
- great and febrile
- responsible historical
- golden literary
- _primordial
- earlier cosmic
- remote geological
- recent glacial
- fifth political
- ancient tertiary
- long barbarous
- foul, reptilian
- profound or religious
- recent ultra-oligarchical
- ultra-oligarchical
- great, longed-for
- rather coarse and childish
- strong, laborious
- luxurious and fantastic
- recurrent glacial
- brilliant but fleeting
- momentous volcanic
- thoughtful, clever and refined
- intermediate secondary
- single rival
- grand, adventurous
- seafaring elizabethan
- intrinsically vacant
- revival or new
- prosperous artistic
- dusty mediaeval
- utilitarian and liberal
- present or historical
- political, commercial and artistic
- bi-millennial
- remote anterior
- own rationalistic
- intertropical cold
- laborious and dauntless
- next temperate
- memorable and almost unique
- purely conventional and arbitrary
- intense glacial
- finite or reflective
- secondary geologic
- stagnant, mannered
- terrorist republican
- average inter-glacial
- average glacial
- creative and classic
- last creative
- portentous millennial
- momentous, unmistakable
- barren literary
- seductive and delicate
- revolutionary and early national
- distant and almost fabulous
- grand idyllic
- second republican
- hero-mythical
- admirable and unparalleled
- far-off imaginary
- interesting and influential
- present geological
- strange, unsettled
- dictatorial and arbitrary
- republican or early imperial
- awfully triumphant
- sedate and moderate
- alien organic
- contemporary glacial
- new, humane
- latest tertiary
- equally memorable
- uncertain and dreadful
- inter-glacial
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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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