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 influence
Below is a list of describing words for influence. 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 influence:
- deep, nameless
- wide and salutary
- steady external
- vicious viral
- slight or trivial
- indirect or political
- high, probable
- distinctly scholastic
- awful or supernatural
- something-residual
- depressing nervous
- materially beneficial
- steadying and heartening
- persistently strong
- gentle but persistently strong
- immediate, disturbing
- distinctly marked--diabolical
- hypnotic and suggestive
- telepathic or hypnotic
- cohesive and constructive
- exhilarating and heady
- calm inspiring
- wide and beneficial
- destructive and anarchic
- soft, overwhelming
- mysteriously sinister
- equally operative
- cheerful decorative
- sufficient compulsory
- gazette--moral
- mighty and permanent
- unknown--oriental
- royal or gracious
- wide and genuine
- species--reciprocal
- irresistible and all-powerful
- sensible seismic
- tumultuous and thrilling
- complete and pernicious
- continual and direct
- largest visible
- gravest and most decisive
- mysterious and almost uncontrollable
- local and respective
- manifestly beneficial
- subtle and inconceivable
- undue preternatural
- criminally disruptive
- recursive, mutual
- vague, eerie
- weak and indirect
- infinite and invasive
- feeblest and most transient
- improper corporate
- unfavorable mental
- unexpected and irresistible
- optically discernible
- illiberal clerical
- undue and fearful
- vexatious and tyrannical
- beautiful but baneful
- full, beneficial
- subtle and irresistible
- positive masculine
- steady gravitational
- covert but very real
- immense electoral
- meal, moral
- salient and curative
- obviously moorish
- residual bad
- great and bad
- subtler, other
- indefinable hypnotic
- tremendous underground
- foreign magical
- habitual and powerful
- benignant upper
- secret celestial
- malign or benignant
- main conservative
- widest helpful
- wholesomely repressive
- undefined and unbounded
- undefined and enormous
- ever slight
- real and preponderating
- french and democratic
- strong and beneficial
- unrecognized but malicious
- constant and potent
- farther evil
- far-reaching and gracious
- unusually disturbing
- fuller, nearer
- beneficial european
- previous undue
- vast and deplorable
- large and seductive
- baltic, tidal
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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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