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 incident
Below is a list of describing words for incident. 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 incident:
- juicily dramatic
- exciting and often humorous
- odd but significant
- good shocking
- possible disgraceful
- sad or dreadful
- next amusing
- subsequent painful
- fresh inexplicable
- trivial but desirable
- exciting dramatic
- embarrassing interplanetary
- significant and traumatic
- deeply significant and traumatic
- dazzling central
- unexpected and scandalous
- incongruous or childish
- whole regrettable
- ~truly regrettable
- major embarrassing
- low-risk, cheap
- striking or thrilling
- original traumatic
- mysterious and unforeseen
- previous unreported
- particular off-duty
- massive interplanetary
- single unhappiest
- particularly brutal or grotesque
- brutal or grotesque
- strange and very opportune
- startling single
- entirely unfortunate
- juicy cardiac
- single regrettable
- supply beautiful
- beautiful or simple
- romantic but sad
- final and miraculous
- significant hacking
- cheerful or humorous
- bad, unhappy
- manifestly abnormal
- alarming and portentous
- acutely embarrassing
- merest transient
- nasty galactic
- pointless, irrelevant
- mere unsavory
- strangely destructive
- unsensational little
- minor day-to-day
- puzzling, frightening
- rather fleeting
- strange and altogether supernatural
- fresh interstellar
- single supernormal
- dreadful and miserable
- small and fanciful
- unnatural and exceptional
- comparatively thrilling
- zeal, picturesque
- untoward little
- moral and little
- grotesque and annoying
- abnormal and nauseous
- least tiresome
- small and very natural
- curious or unheard-of
- especially curious or unheard-of
- essential and praiseworthy
- casual or unimportant
- pathetic or mournful
- rather commendable
- trifling and commonplace
- perfectly trifling and commonplace
- sensational and mysterious
- trifling or amusing
- former humiliating
- singular and most embarrassing
- exciting nor alarming
- major diplomatic
- mere untoward
- admirable maternal
- singular domestic
- trifling and casual
- minor natural
- queer nocturnal
- apparent further
- unpublicized comic
- bizarre, self-inflicted
- full-fledged diplomatic
- apparently racist
- minor awkward
- supposedly actual
- whole macabre
- latest, ill-fated
- unfortunate but instructive
- provocative international
- humiliating, disgusting
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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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