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 estimate
Below is a list of describing words for estimate. 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 estimate:
- rather conservative
- inadequate, mental
- false and insolent
- original confident
- terribly conservative
- nice, comparative
- sudden and true
- comprehensive and judicious
- conservative
- profound and most eloquent
- modest provisional
- sociological or political
- tolerably favorable
- final comparative
- own offhand
- initial rough
- original caustic
- current current
- generous and difficult
- weighty general
- able and always generous
- old-time monkish
- one-sided ethical
- conjectural and probable
- unreal moral
- contradictory formal
- hasty and really erroneous
- total corresponding
- low-ball, rough
- relative mineral
- proportionately low and limited
- popular one-sided
- imaginative and most unflattering
- impartial and philanthropical
- adequate and truly esthetic
- healthily high
- cautious and modest
- fair total
- measurably accurate
- modest average
- lowest modern
- rude and necessarily imperfect
- unfortunately favorable
- just comparative
- satisfactory and just comparative
- impartial and convincing
- wife--occidental and oriental
- wife--occidental
- contemptuous and hopeless
- amazingly sanguine
- latest turkish
- frigid and final
- lowest rough
- entirely chimerical
- eloquent comparative
- unfavorable and wholly incorrect
- previous and rather correct
- unduly favorable
- rough but approximate
- dull and economic
- fair or true
- scant, cynical
- current and apparently authoritative
- initial, revolutionary
- low and unjust
- candid but unflattering
- extravagant official
- careful phrenological
- public and non-partisan
- competent and fairly concordant
- impartial or judicial
- former unworthy
- refusal, low
- comparative or quantitative
- useful or true
- hasty and somewhat imperfect
- relatively disproportionate
- false and singularly unjust
- provisionally final
- fresh and even higher
- absurdly excessive
- quietly judicial
- safe minimal
- relative critical
- regretfully low
- evidently low
- worth formal
- old, rough and ready
- current or academic
- middle-class, social
- secret and honest
- least optimistic
- flattering native
- fair, common-sense
- scrupulously modest and sincere
- scrupulously modest
- swift but correct
- accurate probable
- unjustly contemptuous
- individual and low
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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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