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 fallacy
Below is a list of describing words for fallacy. 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 fallacy:
- familiar logical
- oft-quoted pathetic
- ever indestructible
- humorous and pleasant
- psychological pathetic
- plausible but deceptive
- pleasing but pernicious
- bold and gross
- romantic pathetic
- transparent, insulting
- profound and fatal
- consistent and philosophical
- plausible and poisonous
- common but unhappy
- popular and prevalent
- egregious logical
- popular but pleasant
- common and thoroughly normal
- outworn economic
- typical idealistic
- broader or bolder
- ridiculous and most harmful
- fond luxurious
- pitiable, worn-out
- mightiest and most prodigious
- cowardly intentional
- pathetic, gigantic
- so-called numerical
- misleading and mischievous
- common logical
- apparent logical
- theliberal
- enough psychotherapeutic
- dangerous logical
- old deterministic
- intention-al
- nogical
- ethical, rhetorical
- age-old capitalist
- fatal and mischievous
- vain, ridiculous
- current sociological
- old physiological
- complete and humorous
- shockingly transparent
- remarkable and pernicious
- famous logical
- tenacious popular
- medæval
- curious medæval
- chronological and moral
- absurdly fundamental
- extra-logical
- much fundamental
- monstrous and wicked
- poor conventional
- whole theistic
- great disastrous
- old darwinian
- gigantic economic
- strange artistic
- ridiculous popular
- singular verbal
- intentional or accidental
- much impassioned
- peculiar financial
- hitherto prevalent
- dreary and depressing
- strange popular
- formal deductive
- mere mock
- general fine
- more unaccountable
- old critical
- old absurd
- whole intolerable
- other and deeper
- old metaphysical
- elementary logical
- fundamental scientific
- old pathetic
- rather popular
- vicious and dangerous
- real essential
- thoroughly dangerous
- wildest possible
- thoroughly normal
- great romantic
- whole sick
- pleasant and harmless
- trite old
- same industrial
- moral and logical
- less prevalent
- mere male
- same logical
- spencerian
- pathetic
- further similar
- same particular
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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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