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 evacuation
Below is a list of describing words for evacuation. 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 evacuation:
- sudden, complete and secret
- immediate and unguaranteed
- immediate civilian
- regular, gradual
- recent speedy
- supposedly easier
- bulky and copious
- complete and secret
- gleeful on-air
- powerful and quite involuntary
- incomplete or partially successful
- speedy and difficult
- operative or spontaneous
- morbidly frequent
- imperative intestinal
- perhaps final
- smooth and skillful
- final, panicky
- unannounced but unmistakable
- probable upcoming
- final, covert
- it—medical
- also pathetic
- other immoderate
- infrequent or difficult
- urinary or even seminal
- complete and perfectly satisfactory
- _--final
- copious fecal
- free and thorough
- other posterior
- free and entire
- main official
- early private
- complex and unprecedented
- almost unconditional
- less watery
- thorough and final
- rather ready
- also excessive
- unguaranteed
- full surgical
- immediate total
- cramped, dusty
- japanese civilian
- regular and easy
- imply complete
- temporary british
- immediate medical
- complete and brilliant
- other debilitating
- --final
- final hasty
- usually difficult
- orig-inal
- quite involuntary
- nearly complete
- other salutary
- full and regular
- daily free
- general federal
- fæcal
- biggest human
- orig\-inal
- tri-state
- biggest military
- partially successful
- speedy and complete
- immediate and permanent
- free and natural
- sudden and extraordinary
- faecal
- speedy
- japanese military
- on-air
- f�cal
- noncombatant
- city-wide
- locial
- intestinal
- immediate
- expeditious
- slow, sure
- full-scale
- fecal
- earliest possible
- civilian and military
- urinary
- daring and successful
- other ordinary
- cautionary
- civilian
- hasty
- menstrual
- perfectly satisfactory
- more massive
- complete
- busier
- speedier
- pathologic
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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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