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 followers
Below is a list of describing words for followers. 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 followers:
- idle rascal
- ferociously-loyal
- thoughtful and eager
- weary, sweaty
- good emergent
- servile and venal
- illiterate and rabid
- silent obedient
- gay enthusiastic
- ragged but faithful
- vassal or voluntary
- supposedly obedient
- instinctively imitative
- brave and enthusiastic
- reverent but independent
- five-and-twenty resolute
- notorious mercenary
- rapacious and sensual
- shabby female
- berserk superstitious
- perverse and contemptible
- bestial and ignorant
- valiant or loyal
- thy professional
- perplexed but laborious
- brave but deluded
- unfortunate and loyal
- morose and grief-stricken
- more unshackled
- few and ardent
- stalwart and privileged
- still loyal and honest
- faithful and one-sided
- still weak and weary
- wild but fervent
- faithful gallant
- frivolous empty
- exceptionally sober and strict
- staunchest native
- dastardly native
- least and littlest
- unworthy and humble
- wholly unromantic
- zealous and unscrupulous
- unquestionable loyal
- loyal, able
- loyal, zealous
- loyal, steadfast and true
- loving monkish
- villainous, deluded
- gentle whimsical
- villainous and ignorant
- passionate and humble
- skilled, unscrupulous
- humble, eighteenth-century
- staunch and reactionary
- humble consistent
- largely potential
- ordinarily intelligent and imaginative
- credulous and frantic
- sure and somewhat sour
- rough and possibly mischievous
- worthy legitimate
- brutishly savage
- genial, simple
- consistent and worthy
- other hushed
- boastful and empty
- silent but loyal
- comparatively powerless and obscure
- petty slavish
- powerless and obscure
- worthiest and closest
- rigid and often fanatical
- strong and unswerving
- awkward and enthusiastic
- submissive or blind
- humble and practically nameless
- exceedingly devout and loving
- practically nameless
- austere and trustworthy
- cheerful tanned
- ordinary, sincere and candid
- other and still younger
- faithful but ill-fated
- prominent and enthusiastic
- faithful and extraordinary
- willing or giddy
- mostly unworthy
- ignorant but successful
- reluctant and refractory
- obedient male
- gracious, charitable
- timid and blind
- well-equipped and hopeful
- once well-equipped
- once well-equipped and hopeful
- dauntless and intolerant
- ardent and obsequious
- often conscious
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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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