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 foresight
Below is a list of describing words for foresight. 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 foresight:
- zeal and accurate
- sufficient provincial
- intensely apprehensive
- unusual cool
- uttermost celestial
- independent and bold
- unexpected and superior
- neat and explicit
- dangerous and despairing
- vaguely prophetic
- keen martial
- fundamental and wise
- substantial and essentially british
- simultaneously considerable
- usual remarkable
- usual tricky
- rather providential
- rare selective
- quick and prudent
- sensible and skillful
- considerate and patriotic
- fatal deep
- cool and shrewd
- precise and numerical
- sad maternal
- great and diligent
- demented pious
- incredible editorial
- profound strategic
- astonishing artistic
- unfailing and miraculous
- same providential
- rare instinctive
- absolutely purposeless
- kindred poetic
- cooperative intelligent
- pious and subtle
- occasional intellectual
- impartial and consistent
- true and sane
- indeed preternatural
- sane and deliberate
- considerable constructive
- zeal and equal
- sheer cold-blooded
- just speculative
- rare commercial
- angelic and human
- much prudent
- thoughtful and sober
- absolutely uncanny
- equally acute
- such strategical
- happy instinctive
- high divine
- little methodical
- vain, thy
- merely interested
- political or intellectual
- utmost political
- rare political
- mere shrewd
- political and strategic
- clear military
- same vigilant
- almost prophetic
- true and infallible
- keen political
- exceptional moral
- essentially british
- much logical
- cool and cautious
- almost clairvoyant
- small anxious
- truly maternal
- great logical
- bad more
- real intelligent
- true prophetic
- same shrewd
- superior political
- fine scientific
- truly exquisite
- such prophetic
- keen and subtle
- clear political
- reasonable human
- statesmanlike
- considerable political
- same prophetic
- usual courteous
- prudent
- much critical
- same imperial
- great strategical
- futurological
- financial and military
- prophetic
- certain vital
- such 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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