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 hypotheses
Below is a list of describing words for hypotheses. 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 hypotheses:
- next philosophical
- earliest standard
- traditionally respectable
- thermal solar
- nebular
- rationally respectable
- starkly unbelievable
- spiral nebular
- facile and untested
- planetesimal
- inaccurate and superficial
- full-blown aquatic
- so-called aquatic
- admittedly intriguing
- tenable and probably true
- tenable and perhaps sufficient
- complementary and equally untenable
- doubtful and almost absurd
- mere probable
- modern nebular
- hopelessly vague and untrustworthy
- hopelessly vague
- well-worn and charitable
- new nebular
- famous nebular
- old nebular
- recent and most fruitful
- totally irreconcilable
- interplanetary legal
- incomprehensible fourth
- forward ingenious
- plausible literary
- new darwinian
- exceedingly ingenious and probable
- unreasonable and often unintelligible
- far-away, fantastic
- ingenious and extravagant
- whole atheistical
- mechanical explanatory
- mere but magnificent
- probable but doubtful
- mystical far-fetched
- arbitrary and unsustainable
- sublime nebular
- hibernico-sartorial
- absurd textual
- bold and ill-founded
- paradoxical but not absurd
- completely transcendent
- ``planetesimal
- re�lational
- impious and extravagant
- adlational
- potentially workable
- extravagant subordinate
- plausible operational
- baseless critical
- perfectly tenable
- mere unverifiable
- still admissible
- gratuitous and even contradictory
- etymologico-historical
- aside fanciful
- inevitable and legitimate
- irreconcilable astronomical
- tenable and probable
- ingenious and most fruitful
- plausible or probable
- irrelevant and improbable
- poetic and subjective
- sober and philosophic
- optimistic or sentimental
- impossible and infamous
- ready and very sad
- separable and distinct
- unpopular physical
- quite separable and distinct
- ingenious linguistic
- cautious, impersonal
- well-known nebular
- materialistic and evolutionary
- verifiable scientific
- flimsy and imaginary
- wildest and most incredible
- possible and arbitrary
- unproved and very improbable
- abstractly tenable
- arbitrary and unfounded
- wildest and most untenable
- gratuitous metaphysical
- uncertain, subjective
- altogether plausible
- perverse psychological
- new and most suggestive
- unreasonable and false
- excessively probable
- mysterious and sufficiently extraordinary
- scandalous, false
- reckless and baseless
- scientific auxiliary
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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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