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 honor
Below is a list of describing words for honor. 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 honor:
- unstained martial
- degrading british
- greatest collegiate
- august and socialist
- present, your
- indeed mutual
- dead proper
- exquisitely unexpected
- high imperishable
- therein immortal
- remarkable and incontestable
- delightful great
- implacable calm
- sacred and strictest
- politic and eternal
- aware, thy
- high instinctive
- dangerous and burdensome
- studiously balanced
- scrupulous and exemplary
- thankful, sympathetic
- gracious blind
- same unblemished
- entirely astounding
- inviolate, stainless
- perilous austere
- inevitable but still cumbersome
- due but not exclusive
- stern and stupid
- unappreciated and too nice
- fallacious and fatal
- empty and temporary
- high, imperishable
- worthy double
- relative inferior
- lax, cheap
- clearest, highest
- unexpected and unsolicited
- empty hereditary
- unsolicited and entirely unexpected
- good or private
- jealous personal
- singularly direct and positive
- empty such
- immediate or posthumous
- successful, high
- absolute, unswerving
- nasshumal
- absolutely individual and personal
- perpetual and world-wide
- northwest--equal
- honor--professional
- however sacred
- empty and unavailing
- fantastic inborn
- signal and rare
- own high-set
- poor and doubtful
- conspicuous and rare
- highest martial
- free, jealous
- singular and high
- invincible spanish
- dead due
- true, conscious
- namely military
- always least
- due great
- highest civilian
- singularly distinctive
- down to--personal
- rival due
- great and prestigious
- full and life-changing
- clear-eyed pragmatic
- intensive, personal
- >�personal
- unprecedented and most undeserved
- great and unflagging
- special, spectacular
- spotless thine
- instinctive chivalrous
- nice and jealous
- same, national
- significant official
- additional immortal
- new, angry
- great and most unexpected
- hopeless and silent
- impeccable moral
- worthy highest
- high forensic
- chief prime
- perilous and burdensome
- capitalist unusual
- hitherto untarnished
- complex mutual
- much gratifying
- lofty and patriotic
- high and rigid
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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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