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 exercise
Below is a list of describing words for exercise. 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 exercise:
- =oral
- enthusiastic and monotone
- healthy, mindless
- stern and ever watchful
- unthinking and mechanical
- merely unthinking and mechanical
- reasonably pointless
- largely automatic and futile
- automatic and futile
- constant linguistic
- sanitary, intellectual
- willful and arrogant
- monumentally misguided
- mere gymnastic
- uncorrected french
- last, weary
- straightforward perceptive
- humble but vigorous
- gentle but regular
- changeable and perplexed
- rude athletic
- systematic outdoor
- healthy and violent
- fruitful and natural
- amusing and healthy
- chief devotional
- regular early-morning
- pleasant semi-automatic
- materielly inexpensive
- primary regular
- comfortably monotonous
- mere toilsome
- rather disgusting and gross
- merely unthinking
- honest and healthful
- much and violent
- normal and temperate
- foul, moderate
- graceful and trifling
- free but temperate
- orderly muscular
- free and unbridled
- totally successful
- contrary, continuous
- dangerous, arduous
- lazy and constant
- better or harder
- exclusively theoretical
- constant athletic
- faithful and enlightened
- unconstitutional or wrongful
- systematic, vigorous
- insufficient outdoor
- enough equestrian
- daily gentle
- exhilarating and healthful
- public and peaceable
- healthy and not unlawful
- excessive or unwise
- healthful, appetizing
- decisive and fateful
- enough healthful
- pointless military
- necessary and lawful
- much indefatigable
- free and public
- primitive and pointless
- foolishly primitive and pointless
- foolishly primitive
- pathetic, halfhearted
- appropriate and endless
- frequent naked
- suitable and cheerful
- popular youthful
- repetitive, pointless
- formal, noncompetitive
- little early-morning
- amusing but rather difficult
- watchful and strong
- unsuitable or excessive
- persistent outdoor
- feminine athletic
- delightfully vigorous
- increasingly unrestrained
- previous muscular
- keen and frequent
- daily outdoor
- profitable or delightful
- extraordinary and mutual
- persistent and unfailing
- great and alluring
- nobler and divine
- toilsome and arduous
- conscientious and philanthropic
- daily vigorous
- excessive and premature
- occidental spiritual
- dutiful and beneficial
- active and abundant
- tranquil and moderate
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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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