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 exponents
Below is a list of describing words for exponents. 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 exponents:
- athletic and strenuous
- negative and fractional
- passionate and luminous
- scientific and well-equipped
- eloquent and uncompromising
- greatest present-day
- vigilant and fanatical
- thorough and eminent
- highest and most illustrious
- tuneful poetical
- broad and perhaps sufficient
- chief authoritative
- fittest musical
- renowned western
- british poetic
- greatest and most fearless
- sad but powerful
- salient notable
- brilliant and unsafe
- best and most outstanding
- foremost and clearest
- conspicuous pictorial
- best-known colonial
- saner and abler
- complacent, parochial
- always lucid
- clear-headed and unswerving
- wholly orthodox
- able and reflective
- sturdiest practical
- final and most active
- best-known non-jewish
- satisfactory creative
- other unblushing
- shrewd and valuable
- brilliant and most authoritative
- spontaneous and legitimate
- often reckless and violent
- stringent and consistent
- coequal literary
- purely critical and intellectual
- uncompromising and vigorous
- eminent and most authoritative
- powerful and lifelike
- analytic and explicit
- beloved and confidential
- amazingly versatile
- sympathetic and able
- sufficiently quaint
- formidable and somewhat sinister
- capable and eloquent
- independent and able
- conspicuous royal
- enthusiastic modern
- purest and most eloquent
- persistent and insistent
- integral and fractional
- true and unique
- fractional or negative
- fair and conservative
- daring and most subtle
- brilliant and most eloquent
- conscious and articulate
- fearless and aggressive
- strongest and most typical
- visible, public
- pregnant and significant
- tireless and intrepid
- terribly fitting
- watchful and industrious
- admirable and promising
- selfless and incorruptible
- extreme but significant
- gracious and brilliant
- haughty and proud
- remarkable contemporary
- boldest and most brilliant
- brilliant and influential
- successful periodical
- able and aggressive
- ready and zealous
- artistic and delightful
- foremost ancient
- powerful and fearless
- truest literary
- often eloquent
- effective and graceful
- altogether typical
- faithful and favorite
- main popular
- trenchant, vigorous
- fearfully significant
- extreme modern
- true and harmonious
- reckless and violent
- earliest and most influential
- somewhat necessary
- least acceptable
- conspicuous british
- earliest and most complete
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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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