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 favour
Below is a list of describing words for favour. 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 favour:
- deserving greater
- other but unlawful
- blind and prodigious
- undeserved and uncommon
- sure smart
- fallacious and brief
- gracious and surprising
- preferred royal
- nationalistic public
- brief, fickle
- gracious and angelical
- cordial and special
- internally hard and relentless
- internally hard
- vain public
- ill, such
- sure and irreversible
- generous and partial
- sufficiently icy
- weak promiscuous
- occasional and unjust
- great, extra
- further unasked
- singular and partial
- gracious and endless
- _bridal
- momentary and widespread
- small vicarious
- greater royal
- signal and most acceptable
- sic high
- fickle and grudging
- hitherto partial
- paltry public
- mercurial royal
- past, high
- troubled and thy
- peculiar and sentimental
- attainable public
- transient and uncertain
- imperial and aristocratic
- private and general
- unexpected and general
- extreme hard
- terribly uncertain
- imperial and popular
- incalculably enormous
- rocal
- lional great
- doubtful and short-lived
- previous and preferable
- unbounded but capricious
- tempting but dangerous
- especial royal
- unspeakable special
- conspicuous or continuous
- single frugal
- royal and social
- ever-increasing imperial
- prodigious immense
- wondrous supernatural
- occasional unworthy
- royal and popular
- greatest and most signal
- comparatively ridiculous
- much partial
- general or even partial
- valuable royal
- thine human
- constantly more and more
- constant and peculiar
- remarkable royal
- hard and relentless
- other amorous
- brief but gracious
- surely never-to-be-forgotten
- direct and manifest
- royal or popular
- special and splendid
- further signal
- italian great
- *special
- chief and almost exclusive
- bigger white
- royal or papal
- bare small
- particularly gracious
- constantly more
- much extraordinary
- brief high
- enthusiastic popular
- high and gracious
- thy especial
- back public
- less entire
- poor and petty
- royal and ministerial
- thy worth
- further literary
- particular and personal
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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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