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 executive
Below is a list of describing words for executive. 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 executive:
- universal and compulsory
- rich but not ostentatious
- healthy soviet
- competent and hard-nosed
- high-profile female
- `highly capable
- `highly capable and aggressive
- successful earth-bound
- aggressive youngish
- former secondary
- ordinarily sensible and humane
- entire transnational
- capable and aggressive
- youthful senior
- white-haired literate
- able top
- foreign and uncontrolled
- genteel alien
- casual, more
- overweight balding
- ever-present chief
- flagrant, former
- oddball junior
- top-level planetary
- wise, disinterested
- matchless and most opportune
- hearty and influential
- relatively subordinate and unimportant
- incompetent or disloyal
- separate and wholly irresponsible
- irresponsible and inexperienced
- own stingy
- corrupt or dangerous
- insignificant or weak
- plural, republican
- supposedly harmonious
- independent but supposedly harmonious
- strong, unassailable
- recent chief
- plural federal
- vigorous, responsible
- energetic, indefatigable
- active, unscrupulous
- central provisional
- overly forceful
- canny minor
- strong and regal
- unconstitutional and unscrupulous
- incapable or radical
- young, busy
- least problematic
- weak and subordinate
- arrogant and bureaucratic
- also able
- powerful, centralized
- previous chief
- superbly competent
- best sedentary
- short junior
- disgustingly wealthy
- average aggressive
- bold and impatient
- universal and mandatory
- ordinarily sensible
- single chief
- gray-haired handsome
- mere corporate
- corporate senior
- proper corporate
- professional or corporate
- knowledgeable former
- large overstaffed
- infamously intractable
- highest-ranking local
- chic and sophisticated
- late secondary
- urbane top
- florid top
- spare, solemn
- royal former
- blue chief
- corporate chief
- new, shadowy
- senior jovian
- keen, competent
- brilliant and responsive
- initial chief
- strong chief
- unsuspecting corporate
- middle-management corporate
- powerful upper-level
- notoriously hard-to-please
- former top-rated
- new, extra-constitutional
- devilish chief
- nice midlevel
- successful junior
- dishonest oil-and-gas
- federal provisional
- responsible and vigorous
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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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