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 importance
Below is a list of describing words for importance. 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 importance:
- impressions--commercial
- considerable strategic
- enormous archaeological
- minimal economic
- such paramount
- considerable physiological
- less physiological
- great but elusive
- fancy, adventitious
- incalculable psychological
- unequal physiological
- trifling physiological
- undue relative
- high systematic
- astrological mysterious
- vital primary
- lesser administrative
- social or biological
- paramount practical
- domination--practical
- immediate and paramount
- considerable hygienic
- extremely hyperbolical
- acoustical and harmonic
- superlative and awesome
- capital, decisive
- high classificatory
- such vital
- historical and sentimental
- sudden and central
- momentarily equal
- sober female
- vast dietary
- minor economic
- utmost vital
- marito-national
- considerable strategical
- less, scientific
- much economical
- largely estimable
- intimate biographical
- slight vital
- equal national
- historic and dramatic
- utmost practical
- immense strategic
- incomparable strategic
- vital, desperate
- sudden inflated
- such earthshaking
- undeniable strategic
- intense and paramount
- transcendent national
- grandest and most thrilling
- overwhelming practical
- intermediate and independent
- historic and industrial
- quite primary
- secondary but still grave
- unusual and extraneous
- nature--original
- commercial and ornamental
- national or diplomatic
- considerable medico-legal
- tremendous and vital
- first-rate international
- fibres--physiological
- dunes--geological
- numercial
- rather ecclesiastical
- --chorological
- scarcely external
- epochal historical
- incalculable and depressing
- graver or greater
- vast and even decisive
- grave and decisive
- highest historical
- paramount
- minor or secondary
- historic and cultural
- philosophical and symbolic
- immense and final
- utmost and most mighty
- ostentatious and belligerent
- obvious and momentous
- cul�tural and religious
- pardonable, gay
- transcendent practical
- grave and well-founded
- high physiological
- high and immediate
- prime and fundamental
- first-rate strategic
- merely judicial
- little functional
- great or very small
- israel--historical
- far-reaching ethical
- secondary or even fallacious
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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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