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 guild
Below is a list of describing words for guild. 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 guild:
- proper paid-up
- pale and austere
- troublesome and unpredictable
- self-perpetuating mutant
- loose international
- old but criminal
- grand and potent
- mysterious and tremendous
- audacious and free-wheeling
- always fair and reasonable
- small and very well-placed
- arbitrational
- doughty arbitrational
- bitrational
- stodgy true
- real top-notch
- purely religious and social
- less standardized
- reasonably strong
- chief democratic
- such civic
- never-ending, inconclusive
- rigid hereditary
- local mercenary
- same worshipful
- common private
- \-rival
- liberal intellectual
- entire professional
- other, white
- medieval religious
- powerful mercenary
- own lethal
- own rogue
- older chinese
- great and formal
- compact and powerful
- ancient sacred
- early danish
- several high-level
- vast and comprehensive
- always fair
- complex and ever-changing
- entire damned
- various educational
- religious and charitable
- whole filthy
- other active
- earliest poetic
- strange and ancient
- so-called true
- feudalistic
- ancient old
- ancient and interesting
- whole goddam
- musical and literary
- leaderless
- old rigid
- best and most profitable
- such historic
- great architectural
- powerful and influential
- great and universal
- local commercial
- self-interested
- large and influential
- amoral
- ancient and honorable
- numerous and powerful
- purely religious
- largest and richest
- old mediaeval
- bloody stupid
- perfectly legal
- undeclared
- richest and most powerful
- free-wheeling
- religious and social
- great ecclesiastical
- own humble
- worshipful
- literary
- varicolored
- same ancient
- several key
- rich and powerful
- great mediaeval
- high-ranking
- wealthiest
- burial
- highest ranking
- guiltless
- literary and artistic
- anti-social
- honorable
- grubby little
- unwritten
- medieval
- great literary
- whole damn
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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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