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 exertion
Below is a list of describing words for exertion. 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 exertion:
- utmost conscious
- perpetual legislative
- violent and unaccustomed
- special and intelligent
- spirited and quick
- immense but quite useless
- sharp extra
- fitful or desultory
- purposeless physical
- equal or proportional
- severest muscular
- slightest ordinary
- temporary extravagant
- immediate, concerted
- regular or powerful
- equally regular or powerful
- healthy, mental
- requisite muscular
- undue or extreme
- savage grand
- disproportionate mental
- undue or extraordinary
- little physi\-cal
- disastrous muscular
- unfettered physical
- gigantic and self-sacrificing
- gratuitous individual
- hot and unremitting
- slow, more
- toilsome mental
- strenuous indefatigable
- usual arterial
- honest and conditional
- new and unjustifiable
- hard, pleasant
- rhythmical physical
- individual and unassisted
- laborious and incessant
- undisturbed literary
- active and most incessant
- irksome voluntary
- devotional and philosophical
- imply excessive
- keen, mental
- tedious and very tiresome
- old and severe
- apparent muscular
- pulmonary or muscular
- vigorous or successful
- great manifest
- daring arbitrary
- free and diligent
- useful and strenuous
- vigorous voluntary
- continuous lifelong
- violent and even dangerous
- impetuous muscular
- wanton or injurious
- irksome, physical
- worth virtuous
- aside diligent
- brief but toilsome
- astonishing and generous
- ungracious or severe
- vigorous, ceaseless
- thoughtful, laborious
- corporeal or mental
- general and most laborious
- continual and laborious
- hearty and strenuous
- subsequent extra
- literary or general
- intense monotonous
- late zealous
- terrific but futile
- evident and deliberate
- pleasurable intellectual
- sudden powerless
- strenuous voluntary
unusual - immediate or personal
- recent and violent
- immediate concerted
- real strenuous
- slight and pleasurable
- active and military
- much corporeal
- violent and clumsy
- active, self-sacrificing
- continual and active
- visible temporary
- perpetual voluntary
- extraordinary gymnastic
- resolute and cheerful
- continuous muscular
- previous violent
- violent physical
- little physi�cal
- constant magnetic
- last, horrific
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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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