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 harangue
Below is a list of describing words for harangue. 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 harangue:
- inconceivably dull
- brave and elegant
- final raucous
- long and very effective
- carnal and heartless
- cruel, carnal and heartless
- extravagant and often blasphemous
- cold, stilted
- stuffy technical
- short and pompous
- spirited but inconclusive
- brilliant and particularly lucid
- absurd bombastic
- violent and pompous
- lengthy and apparently meaningless
- empty canting
- coherent and explanatory
- elegant and complimentary
- long and very solemn
- particularly intelligible
- crafty and eloquent
- ludicrous, bombastic
- strictly profane
- short and strictly profane
- vehement and menacing
- fragmentary and topsy-turvy
- long and pithy
- deep rustic
- amazing and wholly unexpected
- spirited and rather angry
- vain, futile and foolish
- highly contemptuous
- bold and rational
- eloquent and oratorical
- tedious supplementary
- well-written, formal
- stereotyped sentimental
- logical, unbroken
- disgusting diplomatic
- tedious and impious
- quaint and horrible
- wordy and pointless
- brave and imperial
- characteristic passionate
- cool, spiritless
- feeble & deranged
- elegant and inflated
- ornate and sensational
- short but inspiring
- subtle, captious
- able but artificial
- curt and pithy
- long, premeditated
- loud and spirited
- cautionary and instructive
- mercifully brief and bland
- effective two-hour
- last fifteen-minute
- laborious, obscure
- often blasphemous
- short, sharp and decisive
- personal and acrimonious
- metaphysical and poetical
- rather oratorical
- violent clerical
- voluble and enthusiastic
- wild, incendiary
- long and inflammatory
- picturesque and impassioned
- pompous and inflammatory
- powerful and lengthy
- long squeaky
- nobly outspoken
- loud animated
- italian vile
- long and abusive
- usual two-hour
- extraordinary and characteristic
- seemingly nonsensical
- tedious judicial
- genial loud-voiced
- lengthy and exhaustive
- inflammatory political
- long, incredible
- rare bitter
- shrill and passionate
- brilliant and convincing
- energetic and eloquent
- strong, impassioned
- particularly lucid
- thy eloquent
- warmly coloured
- long prophetic
- long metaphysical
- artful and pathetic
- long and plausible
- eloquent and pathetic
- long, wordy
- long and prosy
- passionate and furious
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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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