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 eulogy
Below is a list of describing words for eulogy. 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 eulogy:
- less indiscriminating
- thoughtless and good-natured
- fluent and splendid
- liberal or even profuse
- special and very characteristic
- pompous but sincere
- somewhat pompous but sincere
- succinct and powerful
- truly elegant and eloquent
- awful and merciless
- enthusiastic and partial
- grotesque, uncritical
- subtle and yet trenchant
- almost rhapsodical
- formal and energetic
- invidious but splendid
- heartfelt funeral
- extravagant, high-pitched
- ample and well-deserved
- complete and most splendid
- long and very eloquent
- high and exclusive
- short but decent
- lavish and completely disingenuous
- completely disingenuous
- fervent but most truthful
- complete and sublime
- warm and not indiscriminate
- somewhat zealous
- enthusiastic and extravagant
- unnatural and extravagant
- high and accurate
- short and graceful
- absurd, pompous
- rather nauseous
- sickening and nauseous
- high and even enthusiastic
- noble funeral
- unmistakably sincere
- almost immoderate
- famous and memorable
- sure human
- somewhat provocative
- magnificently eloquent
- highest and final
- generous and impassioned
- naturally enthusiastic
- concise but comprehensive
- famous anonymous
- high and warm
- warm and eloquent
- also abundant
- elegant and eloquent
- equally vulgar
- pathetic and beautiful
- simplest and grandest
- strange incomprehensible
- much patriotic
- usual pompous
- noble humanitarian
- long and most interesting
- grand and splendid
- much warm
- brief but eloquent
- pithiest
- less warm
- cold and hollow
- brief but warm
- almost extravagant
- interesting and able
- much vain
- loyal and affectionate
- such indiscriminate
- indiscriminating
- rhapsodical
- such unqualified
- somewhat boisterous
- comparatively modest
- mere meaningless
- truly elegant
- national and personal
- particularly warm
- somewhat pompous
- almost enthusiastic
- rhapsodic
- ciceronian
- old funeral
- more eloquent
- oft-quoted
- somewhat extravagant
- almost unbounded
- quite unexpected
- such unbounded
- indiscriminate
- mere individual
- more fervent
- panegyrical
- funeral
- warm and generous
- eloquent
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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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