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 grief
Below is a list of describing words for grief. 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 grief:
- drowsy, unimpassioned
- possible digital
- silent but almost tangible
- full and inevitable
- unaffected maternal
- great, poignant
- sole and great
- haply ancient
- terrible, heart-wrenching
- utter sickening
- sacred but frightful
- extreme and theatrical
- numb, foggy
- further untold
- helpless, heart-wrenching
- quite ungovernable
- keen and wild
- deepest and most pitiful
- private, inviolate
- utter desolate
- icy dismal
- unreleasable
- great unfocused
- separate additional
- violent or selfish
- dead, excessive
- helpless passionate
- shy and sacred
- all-pervading and hopeless
- constant and natural
- unaffected but easy
- bitter childish
- intolerable and persistent
- untold and esoteric
- sweet and agonizing
- poignant and private
- endless, immortal
- family deep
- extreme and ungovernable
- more, vain
- old, unspeakable
- unbelieving, cold
- troubled passionate
- fully poignant
- hysterical and passionate
- intolerable, unyielding
- late and private
- dry-eyed, such
- calm and almost happy
- two-fold special
- secret, poignant
- eloquently sincere
- repentant, contrite
- meanest loud
- impatient and bitter
- still poignant
- recent and still poignant
- lofty, righteous
- bitter and unbearable
- absolute, archaic
- immediate, poignant
- old, long-standing
- untold and hideous
- chronic silent
- poignant and remorseful
- constant and deep
- deep and very real
- deep and voiceless
- sad, deep
- bitter great
- unspoken and unhealed
- frantic, unrestrained
- helpless, furious
- terrible, noiseless
- profound, silent
- placid and too artistic
- evidently deep and profound
- genuine and poignant
- violent and perturbed
- simple but undisguised
- keen, ever-increasing
- passionate, ungoverned
- solitary and sleepless
- hence genuine
- often deepest
- excessive and poignant
- always wild and angry
- dumb, bitter
- irreparable, mortal
- undying and irremediable
- somewhat mercenary or personal
- inert and torpid
- unreasoning, tempestuous
- ungovernable, passionate
- young and bitter
- sacred and reverential
- unspeakable, immeasurable
- genuine and excessive
- unreasonably violent
- terrible dry-eyed
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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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