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 government
Below is a list of describing words for government. 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 government:
- transitional national
- three-year-old marxist
- marxist nicaraguan
- damn paternalistic
- provisional republican
- self-governing parliamentary
- honest local
- comparatively tolerant and progressive
- three-year transitional
- iraqi transitional
- iraqi interim
- temporary territorial
- biggest and proudest
- parliamentary federal
- rural local
- economical and honest
- incumbent georgian
- socialist-led
- benign civil
- unitary, centralized
- bankrupt spanish
- deeply paternalistic
- compact, centralized
- watchful, observant and suspicious
- unified galactic
- rational centralized
- solidarity-led
- new solidarity-led
- civil central
- somali interim
- efficient and forceful
- vague benevolent
- tyrannical and repressive
- free, enlightened and efficient
- full responsible
- comparatively tolerant
- imperial german
- transitional federal
- imperial galactic
- irish local
- unpopular autocratic
- stable and benevolent
- present insurgent
- increasingly ineffective
- large, provisional
- less apathetic
- legal territorial
- haughty and most undecided
- consular or imperial
- reasonable constitutional
- capital and sane
- stable central
- wise and frugal
- french provisional
- federal and territorial
- republican french
- free and righteous
- presidential parliamentary
- consolidated, national
- tripartite local
- independent monarchical
- impoverished and disorganized
- legal, historical
- liberal or healthy
- new provisional
- real supranational
- civil internal
- national and adequate
- loosely feudal
- strong but democratic
- extortionate and tyrannical
- corrupt central
- genuine constitutional
- chronic large
- constitutional free
- consolidated national
- _supra_-national
- free and paternal
- honest municipal
- parliamentary national
- more burmese
- never civil
- incomplete national
- observant and suspicious
- internal self-governing
- competitive and hypocritical
- highest-ranking imperial
- magnanimous, democratic
- spanish partisan
- frantic belgian
- efficient central
- impotent central
- single-party constitutional
- centralized federal
- absolute popular
- bankrupt popular
- exterior and canonical
- royal austro-hungarian
- provisional and revolutionary
- republican and free
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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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