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 immigration
Below is a list of describing words for immigration. 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 immigration:
- undoubtedly healthy and natural
- undoubtedly healthy
- total jewish
- foreign and industrial
- maximum jewish
- voluntary black
- fifth vast
- total and jewish
- much defective
- thence hungarian
- uncontrolled, indiscriminate
- unchecked asiatic
- unrestricted japanese
- permissible annual
- japanese unrestricted
- much asiatic
- further jewish
- indiscriminate foreign
- vast direct
- consequent french
- total austro-hungarian
- numerous asiatic
- unrestricted chinese
- plentiful european
- limited japanese
- spanish and especially foreign
- selective and restrictive
- considerable voluntary
- fresh gradual
- consequently white
- inclusive federal
- perpetual urban
- onillegal
- japanese and oriental
- simple invisible
- mid-century irish
- desirable and permanent
- recent, large
- later teutonic
- intermittent foreign
- sure large
- indirect german
- sudden, unprecedented
- ill-advised or hopeless
- steady and numerous
- jewish and total
- wholesale european
- wholesale white
- wholesale asiatic
- northern and foreign
- enormous irish
- regular and individual
- vast foreign
- largest and most ancient
- ordinary alien
- hence voluntary
- further alien
- total alien
- enormous european
- immense foreign
- constant annual
- further female
- racist and exclusionary
- uniformed bahamian
- local and long-haul
- tem-poral
- large-scale human
- actually chinese
- past, german
- limited other
- practically unrestricted
- annual jewish
- recent jewish
- pure british
- steady and large
- capital and foreign
- strong and valuable
- extensive chinese
- total austrian
- unrestricted foreign
- necessary free
- vigorous french
- vast jewish
- direct european
- authentic irish
- further illegal
- european criminal
- three-judge
- total irish
- impending german
- foreign white
- much european
- somewhat recent
- same motley
- large and sudden
- greater european
- practically exclusive
- slow and constant
- entire jewish
- great burmese
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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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