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 exactness
Below is a list of describing words for exactness. 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 exactness:
- quiet and cruel
- painful and accurate
- painful, giddy
- relentless, punitive
- scrupulous nervous
- singular rotund
- universal rigid
- servile and chinese
- scientific and literal
- comparative geographical
- mathematical rectilinear
- painstaking and scientific
- material, greater
- wonderful and microscopic
- extreme astronomical
- possible quantitative
- same circumspect
- terrible, oppressive
- complex and awesome
- curved exquisite
- nice, mathematical
- stiff and geometrical
- appropriate and significant
- nearly literal
- strict arithmetical
- literal historical
- proportionally less
- usual artificial
- such arithmetical
- stern but salutary
- such punctual
- conceivable practical
- such geometrical
- scrupulous and conscientious
- quite curious
- scrupulous
- greatest dutch
- perfect logical
- sufficient critical
- careful and scrupulous
- severe critical
- rigid mathematical
- usual unerring
- nice mathematical
- cold and careful
- almost mathematical
- more mathematical
- greatest attainable
- almost prescient
- certain perfect
- almost horrible
- almost machinelike
- utmost attainable
- strict scientific
- fine and clear
- strict chronological
- such methodical
- usual decisive
- almost psychic
- strict logical
- painful and humiliating
- same verbal
- pedantical
- rubrical
- same scrupulous
- such effortless
- such scrupulous
- rigorous scientific
- prosodial
- such circumstantial
- mathematical
- almost stereotyped
- almost excessive
- definite logical
- almost unfailing
- almost photographic
- almost monotonous
- almost scientific
- own busy
- almost unerring
- such mathematical
- same conscientious
- same mathematical
- mere historical
- great mathematical
- same scientific
- utmost
- more wary
- cold, logical
- almost literal
- almost morbid
- tolerable
- more scrupulous
- photographic
- such ludicrous
- parrot-like
- horological
- such critical
- quite comfortable
- such faithful
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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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