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 grievance
Below is a list of describing words for grievance. 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 grievance:
- whimsical and unanticipated
- general and cruel
- permanent and momentous
- wickedly unjust
- illusory but tremendous
- special flaming
- acute and substantial
- cognate and definable
- palpable, intolerable
- greatest and most real
- intolerable practical
- fresh and reasonable
- intense eternal
- huge and bitter
- hot and rancorous
- great and deep-seated
- old well-established
- great and insupportable
- abstract legitimate
- sometime chief
- old, unanswered
- trivial and absurd
- distinct tangible
- long-cherished and inveterate
- palpable and immediate
- further intolerable
- fresh and formidable
- clear, compulsory and final
- domestic, political or social
- ongoing personal
- old and painful
- less good-humored
- outrageous and intolerable
- real and bitter
- strong and real
- ill-defined personal
- small but loud
- monstrous and intolerable
- honest genuine
- particular and authentic
- stitutional
- tribal or political
- good tangible
- more maddening
- old and deep
- positive national
- particular and separate
- compulsory and final
- peculiar and private
- odious and pernicious
- serious and deep
- important popular
- former irish
- thin and bitter
- great and legitimate
- severe practical
- terribly cruel
- restless and anxious
- real, substantial
- much consequent
- small or great
- great fiscal
- adequate personal
- somewhat inconsistent
- quite imaginary
- great and genuine
- equally remote
- last irish
- fresh, raw
- real public
- real irish
- great additional
- general vague
- urgent personal
- particular public
- local or personal
- special and private
- little sore
- great and signal
- little jealous
- less imaginary
- chief educational
- well-known public
- equal and similar
- private or personal
- particular private
- eight-month-old
- great and peculiar
- adtal
- real original
- chief personal
- special and personal
- mere theoretical
- entirely personal
- own serious
- mere sentimental
- good social
- real economic
- real serious
- regular irish
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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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