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 fighter
Below is a list of describing words for fighter. 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 fighter:
- ex-prize
- notably tenacious
- grim, methodical
- single, inferior
- best close-in
- remarkable rough-and-tumble
- wealthy, cautious
- terrifyingly fierce
- efficient and terrifyingly fierce
- same much-lauded
- dark-haired, lean
- bitter, brave
- good and ruthless
- individual imperial
- crazy female
- beloved and greatest
- tough and cruel
- tough unarmed
- particularly renowned
- sturdy and hearty
- long-necked swiss
- quiet and valiant
- fearless, persistent and uncompromising
- tremendous rough-and-tumble
- good hand-to-hand
- barrel-chested old
- single scarred
- resolute and ruthless
- vain, doughty
- mature, intelligent and capable
- powerful, alert
- tough and aggressive
- thin and devious
- unfair and degraded
- good or strong
- frenzied, undisciplined
- matchless defensive
- rough and fearless
- sinister strong
- willing ex-prize
- exceptionally formidable
- straightforward and loyal
- shrewd and hard
- stronger rough-and-tumble
- ardent or cheerful
- formidable two-fisted
- best rough-and-tumble
- rascal, hardest
- first-class rear-guard
- stubborn and often reckless
- gallant and relentless
- stolid bulldog
- sane and high-spirited
- impetuous and active
- dauntless naval
- terrible rough-and-tumble
- greatest renowned
- wild and hard
- desperate, successful
- light-weight rough-and-tumble
- vicious, feathered
- quickest and most courageous
- rough and heedless
- stern and courageous
- impetuous but hard
- clean, sporty
- audacious and able
- stalwart hand-to-hand
- excellent rough-and-tumble
- desperate, scientific
- seasoned and notable
- stubborn legal
- first-rate and vigorous
- huge ex-prize
- lone phantom
- brutal, narrow-minded
- good vicarious
- furious but clumsy
- grimly efficient
- decidedly unmagical
- rusty, dilapidated
- good and wary
- full massive
- drunken, mad
- best hand-to-hand
- fearsome and formidable
- capable, self-assured
- tough and durable
- good, aggressive
- destructive hand-to-hand
- brilliant hand-to-hand
- finest hand-to-hand
- reliable long-range
- big, twin-engined
- propeller-driven, single-engine
- dangerous or cruel
- cool and hard
- bold and forthright
- hottest and most modern
- stronger, dirtier
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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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