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 fact
Below is a list of describing words for fact. 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 fact:
- naked, frigid
- hard geological
- coincidental and meaningless
- mere categorical
- central and unavoidable
- basic, implicit
- undeniably disturbing
- strange but reliable
- embarrassingly well-known
- strange but demonstrable
- ugly central
- sad but inescapable
- meagerly suggestive
- main chief
- significant and gratifying
- plain and leafy
- obvious unbelievable
- small, incomprehensible
- individual astronomical
- stubborn and triumphant
- humiliating but true
- fresh and disconcerting
- relevant, dangerous
- blindly obvious
- mere disastrous
- well-known and undisputed
- unequivocal anatomical
- new and intensely disagreeable
- last and most astounding
- unfair but inescapable
- unavoidable, heavy
- singularly fresh and fascinating
- poorest historical
- depressing and undeniable
- hard, natural
- graphic and extraordinary
- clumsy and offensive
- literal and solemn
- terrible obvious
- odd and injurious
- notorious, unquestionable
- cold and horrifying
- puzzling and distressing
- undisciplined and aggressive
- great significant
- palpable and stubborn
- above-mentioned physical
- wholly unquestionable
- erroneous, economic
- salient, awful
- immediate delightful
- abstract and transient
- notorious and undisputed
- sad but unavoidable
- private and latent
- damn unfunny
- huge and hilarious
- troublesome and quite unforeseen
- amusing but distressing
- simple and rather obvious
- notorious and incontrovertible
- external, strange
- central puzzling
- starkly tragic
- ultimately profound
- absolute, cold
- curious but indisputable
- notorious contrary
- inexorable, immutable
- mournful strange
- massive and important
- important and basic
- sad but undeniable
- other, crucial
- equally irrefutable
- inescapable and unpleasant
- normally unimpeachable
- actual, truthful
- bald, beatific
- simple and fairly obvious
- plain and present
- strict biographical
- coldly colossal
- simple and somewhat beautiful
- flaming logical
- rather curious and inexplicable
- essen-tial
- substantial, real
- amazing but undeniable
- mathematically inescapable
- scientific, indisputable
- nevertheless sober
- overwhelming, astounding
- entirely indisputable
- inescapable and somewhat uncomfortable
- fourth significant
- sad but useful
- curious philological
- new, tremendous
- unimportant or irrelevant
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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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