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 injuries
Below is a list of describing words for injuries. 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 injuries:
- immediate and irreparable
- perhaps notable
- gross cranial
- feigned mortal
- harsh and potent
- grisly physical
- catastrophic internal
- widespread and permanent
- fatal internal
- violent or extraordinary
- major crippling
- larger, livid
- basal cellular
- wanton or superfluous
- gross primary
- serious cranial
- mildly crippling
- more unforgivable
- gross cerebral
- accidental, transient
- dramatic and yet fatal
- unquestionable and permanent
- rather mortal
- natural or occasional
- puffy purple
- deep systemic
- perhaps internal
- grievous and mortal
- sure, internal
- felonious and violent
- minor but painful
- shadowy, irreparable
- further and almost fatal
- permanent and perhaps irreparable
- often serious and vital
- gross recent
- agonizing minor
- evident serious
- heinous and innumerable
- meningeal or cerebral
- fatal and serious
- slight and probable
- grave spinal
- internal or constitutional
- naterial
- serious and irremediable
- severe genital
- strange but not life-threatening
- absurdly slight
- old and very grievous
- lifeless, dreadful
- debilitating and painful
- serious on-the-job
- insidious and grievous
- most bloody
- permanent or grave
- massive abdominal
- reasonably minor
- shock+physical
- narrow and reasonably minor
- bonesinternal
- immediately non-fatal
- violent, serious
- unnecessary or wanton
- widespread but superficial
- great but really unimportant
- undetermined and equally mysterious
- sharpest and swiftest
- viciously ingenious
- smallest and most accidental
- life-threatening penetrating
- incalculable and irremediable
- past near-mortal
- infrequently serious
- casual and possible
- almost certain and serious
- unpunished private
- imaginary or intentional
- atrocious and shameful
- perhaps life-long
- fatal or serious
- grave and perhaps life-long
- various intolerable
- chinese considerable
- serious psychical
- spinal and internal
- avenging private
- decomposed, great
- calm, several
- irreparable and permanent
- understandable and tolerable
- homicidal, much
- hideous or fatal
- considerable ultimate
- overpowering and infamous
- further and irreparable
- avenging petty
- whole, direct
- atrocious and intolerable
- positive and almost incalculable
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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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