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 extinction
Below is a list of describing words for extinction. 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 extinction:
- ultimate peaceable
- outright human
- megafau-nal
- final and magnificent
- probable gradual
- gradual and apparently pleasant
- local or complete
- peaceable and speedy
- ultimate, peaceful
- swift and dreary
- horrid and complete
- effective organic
- simultaneous furtive
- complete, utter and absolute
- megafaunal
- inevitable and often bloody
- bloodless and gradual
- utter corporeal
- unanticipated and almost painless
- fate--final and utter
- fate--final
- total and definitive
- happy and highly desirable
- evolutionary preputial
- final or nearly final
- almost total and complete
- healthy and effectual
- slow but absolutely certain
- speedy and noiseless
- natives--gradual
- consequent racial
- probable and almost certain
- total and imminent
- certain and total
- probable imminent
- slow, humiliating
- therefore ultimate
- more but final
- barren and utter
- capricious, meaningless
- probable and imminent
- grim, total
- potential racial
- total, everlasting
- final national
- untimely dreary
- astonishingly sudden and complete
- slow medi�val
- slow mediaeval
- sharp and complete
- be--_total and immediate
- be--_total
- gradual and total
- dark, utter
- brave political
- gradual but grievous
- powerless and apparent
- less entire
- effectively total
- peaceful and gradual
- apparent gradual
- nearly final
- ultimate and utter
- vital and psychical
- unusually sudden
- spectacular pre-industrial
- such global
- rapid or instantaneous
- gradual but certain
- gradual and ignominious
- tolerably rapid
- certain and unavoidable
- utter financial
- astonishingly sudden
- slow or quick
- gradual and silent
- speedy and total
- immediate and total
- own unthinkable
- inevitable financial
- final and irreversible
- ultimate racial
- speedy and entire
- partial and complete
- total and sudden
- gradual and peaceful
- immediate or gradual
- probable speedy
- premature physical
- final and hopeless
- final sharp
- total political
- sometimes personal
- sudden and premature
- utter and entire
- least immediate
- gradual but sure
- almost total
- gradual
- almost painless
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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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