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 espionage
Below is a list of describing words for espionage. 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 espionage:
- computerized industrial
- necessarily brief and intermittent
- conventional industrial
- small but quite effective
- well-financed industrial
- elementary civic
- self-aggrandizing corporate
- government-supported industrial
- state-supported industrial
- best-financed electronic
- mutual and pervasive
- military high-tech
- foremost technical
- benignant compassionate
- maybe industrial
- little quasi-legal
- unregistered military
- deliberate capitalist
- extraordinarily strict
- simultaneously religious and political
- gentler and freer
- curious and almost ridiculous
- consequent worshipful
- fuzzy secret
- efficient and extensive
- intercorporate
- counter-industrial
- quasi-legal industrial
- span>�industrial
- adtrial
- now political and economic
- cut-and-dried industrial
- sometimes industrial
- british, london-based
- rampant industrial
- largest soviet
- low-risk industrial
- long-range technical
- band—physical
- industrial and political
- unceasing and sleepless
- skilful and incessant
- indirect diplomatic
- efficient industrial
- vigilant personal
- covert and overt
- industrial atomic
- practised commercial
- rather jewish
- simultaneously religious
- especially industrial
- airborne electronic
- invisible international
- well-established, freelance
- down industrial
- soviet technological
- little extra-curricular
- complex soviet
- maybe commercial
- top-flight british
- built-in industrial
- lengthy industrial
- freelance industrial
- secret but thorough
- proper and virtuous
- key soviet
- serious and risky
- presumably dead
- top-secret federal
- highly clandestine
- fictional psychic
- fairly faithful
- secret financial
- enormously sensitive
- capable german
- military or industrial
- constant industrial
- just industrial
- necessarily brief
- exceedingly efficient
- quite effective
- greatest international
- more galling
- secret corporate
- normal industrial
- crafty and subtle
- ndustrial
- somewhat jealous
- industrial
- tyrannical and cruel
- military and industrial
- high-level corporate
- such commonplace
- industrial and economic
- political
- now political
- little civilized
- serious industrial
- “industrial
- occasional minor
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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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