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 guardians
Below is a list of describing words for guardians. 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 guardians:
- profligate so-called
- watchful, helpless
- magical and monstrous
- planetary constitutional
- tattered, swarthy
- reprehensibly sensitive
- angry and silent
- malicious, ancient
- practically undying
- old-time coastal
- wise and fierce
- exasperated feminine
- faithful and jealous
- jealous unknown
- scheming and brutal
- careless or unfaithful
- considerate but careful
- vigilant and joint
- single gouty
- mighty all-powerful
- still self-appointed
- metal nor sinister
- clumsy and thoughtless
- black, phantasmal
- soft blood-filled
- immediate and unofficial
- obdurate or exacting
- faithful and ever watchful
- natural and most effective
- strong and wakeful
- intrepid and vigilant
- automatic orbital
- good passive
- moderately efficient
- unseen fairy
- gaunt, indifferent
- relentless organic
- uniformed societal
- annviral
- reasonable and conscientious
- self-styled galactic
- terrible, venomous
- foremost imperial
- protective and enraged
- stern and faceless
- pious and watchful
- highly watchful
- disagreeable and unknown
- large and highly watchful
- vigilant and inflexible
- degenerate, unfaithful
- surly puritanical
- primitive monstrous
- self-styled unconquerable
- seeming and not real
- intrepid and incorruptible
- heavy, liveried
- surprisingly simple and swift
- special and jealous
- divine or monstrous
- fanatical and morbid
- apparently vigilant
- unelected, self-appointed
- cautious, black
- venal or heedless
- fearless, independent and enterprising
- affectionate and observant
- smart stern
- legal and sacerdotal
- interested, affectionate
- uniformed and suspicious
- faithful and most uncompromising
- divinely self-appointed
- important and rather dreadful
- vigilant and humane
- definite and very efficient
- childless, new
- inflexibly honest and faithful
- chief or elder
- titular and legal
- officious and zealous
- gouty and repentant
- steadfast and watchful
- watchful unobtrusive
- deluded philosophic
- severe and hateful
- grim and legal
- benevolent and irresponsible
- watchful and natural
- imperturbable natural
- sleepy and unfaithful
- watchful, tyrannical
- eager and careful
- legal and sole
- social available
- fond grave
- irresponsible and callous
- criminal or drunken
- special and benign
- zealous franciscan
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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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