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 initiative
Below is a list of describing words for initiative. 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 initiative:
- much aggressive
- resourceful, good
- sanguine and enterprising
- unforeseen and spontaneous
- open and voluntary
- bold and yet thoughtful
- stupid, hopeful
- entirely satisfactory and desirable
- spontaneous and pacific
- energetic, uncontrolled
- daring and superb
- spirited, joyous
- major legislative
- powerful and individual
- persistent and decisive
- other unilateral
- more chancy
- entre�preneurial
- sino-british diplomatic
- crucial post-war
- earlier bureaucratic
- iranian diplomatic
- freest individual
- dominant, cool
- greater private
- vigilant and zealous
- unrestrained private
- spiritual or quasi-spiritual
- hateful and cruel
- inspiring individual
- accordingly scientific
- erroneous but voluntary
- certain normal
- biological and pathological
- world-wide democratic
- private or voluntary
- sporadic individual
- individual educational
- expensive diplomatic
- bold, visionary
- industry-supported
- desirable individual
- active private
- capital and private
- popular legislative
- unaided private
- other, individual
- former unlimited
- zeal and such
- exceptionally passionate
- unlimited individual
- national democratic
- feeble intellectual
- bold and intelligent
- central european
- nervous or muscular
- own forceful
- vigorous chemical
- bold and spirited
- private and local
- military-political
- enough domestic
- intense individual
- patriotic and generous
- alien diplomatic
- intelligent and beneficial
- inevitable personal
- single benevolent
- neoconservative
- local and private
- local british
- meaningful political
- more sinful
- provincial and communal
- brave and sober
- quasi-spiritual
- inspiring little
- independent personal
- independent intellectual
- short, private
- free individual
- enough social
- vast individual
- legitimate social
- emotional and spiritual
- independent spiritual
- free and individual
- political and legislative
- in�dividual
- little constitutional
- highest individual
- present free
- such indomitable
- new presidential
- less local
- own legal
- truly alarming
- vivid personal
- free and vigorous
- anti-drug
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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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