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 fund
Below is a list of describing words for fund. 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 fund:
- small discretionary
- turkish compassionate
- principal and ordinary
- british charitable
- general theatrical
- special discretionary
- cash-flush
- memorial and benevolent
- dramatic benevolent
- royal literary
- canadian patriotic
- gigantic mutual
- common and similar
- donegal industrial
- international momentary
- central environmental
- general incidental
- local sick
- stupid educational
- gratifying national
- sparkling, inexhaustible
- irish consolidated
- pious and harmonious
- genial, pious and harmonious
- aggregate available
- uniform special
- rental, special
- immense and apparently inexhaustible
- hospital christmas-tree
- royal patriotic
- inexhaustible and incorrigible
- inexhaustible and tragic
- distributable
- equally boyish
- +ual
- little testimonial
- turkish benevolent
- spontaneous and inexhaustible
- large adventitious
- entirely unlimited
- meager public-school
- prolific and inexhaustible
- entire old-age
- official sick
- immediate and easily available
- central theatrical
- communal sick
- imperial invalid
- ever amusing
- permanent orphan
- charitable, episcopal
- temporary and inadequate
- vast disposable
- musical benevolent
- requisite burial
- honorable and pious
- additional discretionary
- famous pious
- permanent productive
- obscure charitable
- official special
- dismally inadequate
- risky mutual
- healthy and sizable
- hospital general
- definite permanent
- military contingent
- permanent and irreducible
- immense common
- constant, open
- weekly meal
- inviolable public
- unlimited secret
- separate communal
- jewish poor
- world-wide common
- brilliant and inexhaustible
- full ample
- greater disposable
- small benevolent
- corrupt legislative
- ample new
- sacred and intangible
- assembly contingent
- sick and burial
- various blind
- principal or sole
- common poor
- precious special
- large and natural
- imperial memorial
- benevolent and orphan
- sick and funeral
- ecclesiastical literary
- free and disposable
- occasionally scanty
- national agrarian
- european social
- ancient charitable
- no-load mutual
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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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