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 forbearance
Below is a list of describing words for forbearance. 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 forbearance:
- prudent and commendable
- long and astonishing
- therefore loving
- similar and wonderful
- strange habitual
- complete and indulgent
- sympathetic and expectant
- long-suffering and quiet
- weary but polite
- grim and wooden
- entirely indulgent
- long and considerate
- hard, autocratic
- hereditary, easy-going
- temporary and politic
- intense innate
- finest and heartiest
- women--mutual
- equally unexpected and merciful
- wiser and milder
- self-denial or humane
- lengthy pitiful
- long-suffering, generous
- mutual and respectful
- certainly commendable
- mawkish, maudlin
- foolish and excessive
- much gracious
- unaware such
- quiet feminine
- usual undisturbed
- conscientious and affectionate
- miraculous and mysterious
- inscrutable divine
- relatively humane
- necessary great
- such compassionate
- good-will and mutual
- own stoical
- otherwise incomprehensible
- almost fastidious
- more god-like
- truly angelic
- delicate and generous
- wise national
- decent and respectful
- same or greater
- _mutual
- old weak
- much mutual
- mutual
- otherwise inexplicable
- great loving
- almost ominous
- equally unexpected
- much sweet
- more compassionate
- such civil
- such loving
- thy past
- same severe
- magnanimous
- same wise
- seemingly inexhaustible
- such generous
- such mutual
- such useful
- sweet and gracious
- wise and noble
- little mutual
- christ-like
- considerate
- generous
- little temporary
- thoughtful little
- utmost
- long-suffering
- clear and distinct
- such unusual
- commendable
- thy gentle
- reciprocal
- utmost possible
- more proper
- such overwhelming
- merciful
- good-will
- contemptuous
- mere external
- long and difficult
- such singular
- tight-lipped
- almost unlimited
- skeptical
- politic
- stoical
- almost incredible
- polite
- loving
- respectful
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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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