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 fleetness
Below is a list of describing words for fleetness. 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 fleetness:
- admiral danish
- british grand
- main robotic
- inconvenient dutch
- effective and creditable
- obscure mercenary
- imperial second
- oppressed neutral
- victorious and affectionate
- fresh athenian
- larger, imperial
- much twelfth
- worse, twelfth
- naval combatant
- lesser athenian
- oncoming danish
- full-fledged robotic
- unsuspecting robotic
- rational, well-educated
- elusive french
- whole invincible
- revolutionary baltic
- enormous hostile
- next proud
- huge mercenary
- free mercenary
- regular exploratory
- weirdly assorted
- entire nationalist
- punitive imperial
- hostile senior
- precious and righteously upstanding
- respectable aerial
- smaller infidel
- smashing second
- fresh mobile
- large athenian
- victorious athenian
- compact and numerous
- british manned
- tardy sicilian
- tiny aerial
- unwieldy french
- intense or realistic
- fine and pompous
- british main
- old glib
- feisty royal
- sizable and powerful
- fresh fanatical
- ostentatious new
- entire britannic
- entire mercenary
- once-mighty nuclear
- purported auxiliary
- impressive commercial
- mighty ursal
- newly beefed-up
- large and highly efficient
- ridiculously nondescript
- vast and ridiculously nondescript
- better, total
- damn biggest
- male asiatic
- eleventh imperial
- meticulous imperial
- weaker german
- effective ocean-going
- snowy, self-supporting
- all-important, british
- stronger spanish
- formidable and numerous
- entire athenian
- superior italian
- homogeneous and mobile
- nimble inferior
- comparatively homogeneous and mobile
- illusive french
- last baltic
- turkish principal
- impatient spanish
- modern iron-clad
- main ironclad
- alert and powerful
- austrian ironclad
- well-equipped athenian
- compact numerous
- british baltic
- large and nondescript
- subsequently victorious
- predominant and subsequently victorious
- dutch auxiliary
- tremulous pale
- whole stygian
- tremendous chinese
- national aerial
- vague elusive
- grand chinese
- auxiliary dutch
- original inferior
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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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