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 fulfilment
Below is a list of describing words for fulfilment. 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 fulfilment:
- nominal and tardy
- exact and awful
- harmonious cognitive
- hitherto singular
- fearful and striking
- brief and perfect
- simultaneous and remarkable
- special and exact
- unrecognized, unsatisfactory
- nearer historical
- historical and approximate
- rigid, stark
- confusing vicarious
- vicarious aesthetic
- maximum joint
- ultimate and literal
- literal and perfect
- heartless, fanatical
- standard and approximate
- special positive
- final, satisfactory
- energetic, unflinching
- puerile so-called
- subsequent specific
- distinct voluntary
- partial, preparatory
- punctual and perfect
- historical and immediate
- new delicate
- voluntary and eager
- valuable and punctual
- final, fierce
- entire and unexpected
- terribly truthful
- total, unqualified
- ultimately passionate
- ignorant, careless or inattentive
- literal and incomplete
- complete and spiritual
- final and equitable
- primary and lesser
- pleasant organic
- punctual and exact
- strange but actual
- final musical
- exact and striking
- poetical and symmetrical
- complete and amazing
- worst and fatal
- swift and definite
- speedy and literal
- spiritual and larger
- partial, past
- literal and startling
- rapid and literal
- real and highest
- actual perfect
- partial and material
- other literal
- literal and external
- rich and ripe
- actual and precise
- grim and unexpected
- final and happy
- perfect voluptuous
- last partial
- striking and complete
- accidental or natural
- richer and happier
- vigorous and faithful
- steady and uncompromising
- specific and literal
- exact and constant
- literal and exact
- brief but sufficient
- practical and fruitful
- exact and punctual
- diligent and zealous
- ultimate and speedy
- severely literal
- still glorious
- curious parallel
- ample and complete
- apparently slow
- local and immediate
- simple but perfect
- unexpectedly rapid
- careless or inattentive
- gloomy and disastrous
- such gratifying
- speedy and prosperous
- exact and regular
- same complete
- merely apparent
- easy and accurate
- grand and complete
- strict and faithful
- exact and scrupulous
- faithful and fearless
- greater imaginative
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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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