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 evidence
Below is a list of describing words for evidence. 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 evidence:
- abundant positive
- last, plain
- strong circumstantial
- irrefutable astronomical
- ever circumstantial
- fake psychiatric
- dumb circumstantial
- good circumstantial
- trustworthy circumstantial
- internal typographical
- continual and conclusive
- circumstantial or testimonial
- merely circumstantial
- circumstantial
- important fresh
- good impartial
- slight and suspicious
- present indecisive
- enough circumstantial
- other incontrovertible
- historical or indirect
- abundant circumstantial
- just circumstantial
- direct archaeological
- solid circumstantial
- damnably vast and overwhelming
- damnably vast
- new and most unsettling
- back conclusive
- dim and often contradictory
- historical and internal
- good and exceedingly powerful
- confessedly secondary
- necessarily indisputable
- purely circumstantial
- always physiological
- much overwhelming
- current other
- irrefutable physical
- conclusive circumstantial
- merest apparent
- strongest circumstantial
- rather conclusive
- almost indubitable
- almost conclusive
- sufficient circumstantial
- tardy and very suspicious
- unmistakable internal
- best pragmatic
- internal and circumstantial
- palpable negative
- internal critical
- relevant scientific
- authentic or trustworthy
- convincing circumstantial
- competent and satisfactory
- bold and complex
- certain circumstantial
- wildly suggestive
- true convincing
- earthly logical
- usually vague and unsatisfactory
- circum\-stantial
- indirect linguistic
- unexpected, conclusive
- contemporary and respectable
- prime admissible
- ample geological
- forward immediate
- considerable circumstantial
- awful unhealed
- positive, irrefutable
- perfect circumstantial
- ample internal
- stronger circumstantial
- abundant geological
- slight but terrible
- idle, hare-brained
- geological or historical
- ample and conclusive
- extant direct
- valuable and decisive
- irrefutable circumstantial
- positive and unimpeachable
- grave circumstantial
- inscriptional and other
- clearest and most immediate
- direct circumstantial
- overwhelming internal
- conclusive
- hardly satisfactory
- much literal
- further circumstantial
- mere circumstantial
- incontestable historical
- sufficient ancient
- full and conclusive
- such conclusive
- hardly conclusive
- unmistakable scientific
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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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