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 injury
Below is a list of describing words for injury. 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 injury:
- immediate and irreparable
- perhaps notable
- feigned mortal
- catastrophic internal
- widespread and permanent
- violent or extraordinary
- larger, livid
- serious cranial
- more unforgivable
- accidental, transient
- unquestionable and permanent
- rather mortal
- natural or occasional
- deep systemic
- grievous and mortal
- felonious and violent
- shadowy, irreparable
- permanent and perhaps irreparable
- gross recent
- evident serious
- meningeal or cerebral
- slight and probable
- grave spinal
- internal or constitutional
- naterial
- serious and irremediable
- strange but not life-threatening
- old and very grievous
- debilitating and painful
- insidious and grievous
- permanent or grave
- reasonably minor
- narrow and reasonably minor
- immediately non-fatal
- unnecessary or wanton
- great but really unimportant
- sharpest and swiftest
- smallest and most accidental
- incalculable and irremediable
- infrequently serious
- almost certain and serious
- imaginary or intentional
- perhaps life-long
- grave and perhaps life-long
- chinese considerable
- spinal and internal
- decomposed, great
- irreparable and permanent
- homicidal, much
- considerable ultimate
- further and irreparable
- whole, direct
- positive and almost incalculable
- neat and limited
- fatal abdominal
- extensive direct
- penetrating visceral
- further visceral
- individual visceral
- ultimate and most severe
- partial and incidental
- malignant and wanton
- incurable and very painful
- absolute low-temperature
- sensible and widespread
- apparent severe
- delicate, permanent
- certain and incalculable
- visible and irreparable
- martial sufficient
- silent insolent
- obscure and deep-seated
- minor and indirect
- trivial and diplomatic
- deep and most offensive
- female feigned
- old and rather serious
- serious conscious
- sufficiently repellent
- genuine and very annoying
- nursery--material
- fearful and irreparable
- purposely malicious
- thoughtless or purposely malicious
- profound or persistent
- natural but permanent
- past irreparable
- grievous financial
- enormous and extreme
- sharp and personal
- daring and little
- wicked and grievous
- immediate serious
- manifest and apparent
- irreparable physical
- happy, much
- such irreparable
- irreparable
- more irreparable
- physical personal
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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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