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 harangues
Below is a list of describing words for harangues. 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 harangues:
- inconceivably dull
- brave and elegant
- final raucous
- long and very effective
- carnal and heartless
- cruel, carnal and heartless
- monarchical and pious
- extravagant and often blasphemous
- forth monarchical
- cold, stilted
- forth monarchical and pious
- violent vegetarian
- tiresome apologetic
- stuffy technical
- many harmonic
- short and pompous
- inflammatory and insulting
- spirited but inconclusive
- humorous convivial
- brilliant and particularly lucid
- notable and florid
- absurd bombastic
- interminable and prosy
- violent and pompous
- lengthy and apparently meaningless
- empty canting
- coherent and explanatory
- elegant and complimentary
- long and very solemn
- foolish and inflammatory
- particularly intelligible
- plausible or implausible
- crafty and eloquent
- virulent sectarian
- ludicrous, bombastic
- listless, monotonous
- strictly profane
- long, egotistical
- short and strictly profane
- eloquent and defiant
- vehement and menacing
- scandalizing and iniquitous
- fragmentary and topsy-turvy
- noisy bombastic
- long and pithy
- so-called eloquent
- deep rustic
- seditious popular
- amazing and wholly unexpected
- stern or pathetic
- spirited and rather angry
- still instructive and erudite
- vain, futile and foolish
- instructive and erudite
- highly contemptuous
- impassioned and fanciful
- bold and rational
- ornate and philosophical
- eloquent and oratorical
- loud and declamatory
- tedious supplementary
- unpremeditated colloquial
- well-written, formal
- popular and disaffected
- 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
- indiscriminate and perpetual
- cautionary and instructive
- interminable and unintelligible
- mercifully brief and bland
- sundry inflammatory
- effective two-hour
- didactic and philosophic
- last fifteen-minute
- forth impassioned
- laborious, obscure
- artful and seditious
- often blasphemous
- still instructive
- short, sharp and decisive
- stale and senseless
- personal and acrimonious
- eloquent, impressive
- metaphysical and poetical
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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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