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Words to Describe exploits

Below is a list of describing words for exploits. 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 exploits:

  • romantic and daring
  • sundry superb
  • far negligible
  • ferocious and audacious
  • eminent and great
  • wonderful warlike
  • next murderous
  • miscellaneous heroic
  • superb and outstanding
  • famous, warlike
  • picturesque and horrible
  • showy administrative
  • inopportune, arithmetical
  • wonderful and warlike
  • mad or monstrous
  • daring and even dangerous
  • gory, gorgeous
  • unceasing martial
  • frantic military
  • glorious and frequent
  • consecutive military
  • prosperous legislative
  • accidental, military
  • earliest and most daring
  • best aquatic
  • rare or fanciful
  • innumerable and astonishing
  • heroic aerial
  • also free-lance
  • �ronautical
  • favorite and daring
  • signal and daring
  • magnificent but fruitless
  • unparalleled and bold
  • lesser diminutive
  • further truculent
  • sometimes capital
  • glorious and extraordinary
  • bold aerial
  • hardy but murderous
  • ill-starred colonial
  • purposeless and impetuous
  • equally fictitious
  • mere idyllic
  • athenian military
  • similar unnatural
  • later legendary
  • weird mental
  • own hair-raising
  • absurdly risky
  • desperate undersea
  • sundry legendary
  • sordid amorous
  • reckless, spectacular
  • occasionally impressive
  • dramatic, self-centered
  • courageous and dangerous
  • more thaumaturgical
  • hair-raising topological
  • especially feasible
  • imaginative and witty
  • fiercely imaginative and witty
  • various errant
  • marvelously dangerous
  • thy insignificant
  • dangerous other
  • daring and picturesque
  • incessant nautical
  • gallant and memorable
  • truly great and illustrious
  • spectacular and important
  • marital and extra-marital
  • strategic naval
  • hazy and distant
  • brilliant and notable
  • wonderful heroic
  • previous brilliant
  • mad chivalrous
  • numerous valiant
  • numerous clear-headed
  • former audacious
  • rare glacial
  • dangerous and masculine
  • unlikely sexual
  • several imaginary
  • daring naval
  • undoubtedly splendid
  • largely fictitious
  • endless magical
  • subsequent secret
  • romantic and remarkable
  • brilliant and perilous
  • numerous bold
  • great congressional
  • sensational military
  • many daring
  • past romantic
  • earlier sexual
  • similar daring
  • own homicidal

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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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