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 god
Below is a list of describing words for god. 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 god:
- eternal and most gracious
- most merciful
- evil, uncaring
- orthodox, scriptural
- infinitely wise and powerful
- insane elder
- great, ancient and immortal
- glorious lame
- wise, good and powerful
- possible, pleasing
- weak, soft-looking
- sore unwilling
- bland proper
- eternal transcendent
- merciful and intelligent
- bhaal, dark
- dark and omnipresent
- bhaal, murderous
- great magnanimous
- cosmic or tribal
- infinitely good
- exceedingly glorious and wonderful
- exceedingly glorious
- infinite and all-powerful
- mad faceless
- obscene and repulsive
- maimed and demented
- gray pagan
- spiritual and solitary
- far-famed lame
- devastatingly hot
- silken, nordic
- merciless and indifferent
- wise but distant
- pitiful, dear
- present and oppressive
- eternal, merciful
- infinitely good and powerful
- pitiless and barbarous
- long-suffering and merciful
- prying and all-powerful
- imaginable best
- golden self-styled
- happy, pitiless
- mighty aztec
- damned aztec
- grim lesser
- babylonian personal
- evil, worthless
- benevolent or wrathful
- serene and unquestionable
- infinitely wise and good
- merciful and benevolent
- rewarding and avenging
- new and feral
- golden, angry
- unintelligible and certainly nonexistent
- certainly nonexistent
- bloodthirsty new
- secret or unknown
- all-powerful, omnipresent
- unconscious handsome
- irritating celtic
- fun-loving, irreverent
- mind-blowingly sexy
- irrepressible and riotous
- shapeless, colossal
- cruel idiot
- intolerant and sadistic
- savage, lustful
- loving and terrible
- apocryphal heathen
- righteous and angry
- new nameless
- all-powerful unknown
- infinitely good and merciful
- true but invisible
- personal, ethical
- elder native
- infinite, great
- anthropomorphic personal
- silent, uncongenial and uncomfortable
- gilded chinese
- mighty and most merciful
- angry heathen
- paternal and true
- loathsome, hypnotic
- infinite and omniscient
- heartless jewish
- youthful pagan
- dreadful, mighty
- good and most great
- thine organ-peal
- harsh or merciful
- horrible unconquerable
- empty and inadequate
- greatest, wisest
- infinitely good and wise
- intolerant, jealous
- powerful and very evil
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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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