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 innovation
Below is a list of describing words for innovation. 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 innovation:
- real acrobatic
- theologically ingenious
- mischievous and comprehensive
- permanent in-house
- single metabolic
- appealing or practical
- pernicious and frivolous
- commendable and lucrative
- improper doctrinal
- mere impudent
- radical and even scandalous
- vulgar and lawless
- ethnologically significant
- bold and radical
- often bold
- important victorian
- imperfect and insincere
- impure and foreign
- fantastic or monstrous
- agreeable parliamentary
- legislative and partly ethical
- exceptional, arbitrary
- irrational and impossible
- slightest unforeseen
- questionable and strange
- highly questionable and strange
- unnecessary and most tasteless
- uproariously successful
- open, daring
- inaccurate modern
- pleasing and revolting
- notable structural
- fresh and almost impudent
- radical or dangerous
- wild and very useless
- judicious and laudable
- startling and successful
- beautiful but daring
- arbitrary and shameless
- ruthless and senseless
- untried political
- mischievous and wicked
- interesting strategic
- marvelous organic
- notorious and notable
- unique and startling
- useful and ingeniously simple
- unique penal
- otherwise inconceivable
- logical and political
- would-be brilliant
- prime tactical
- stunning, brilliant
- however distasteful
- deliberate technological
- dramatic and profound
- impracticable and useless
- rigidly utilitarian
- partly ethical
- extraordinary and mischievous
- unwise and destructive
- striking and lucrative
- arbitrary or artificial
- stupid and prosaic
- mere puritanical
- charming and illogical
- singular and most worthy
- violent and serious
- great and greatest
- latest martial
- central and characteristic
- newest and most exciting
- significant and dangerous
- complete and shocking
- extensive ornamental
- strong technical
- psychopharmacological
- crucial evolutionary
- spectacular technological
- fourth important
- absolutely revolutionary
- further romantic
- equally consistent
- in-house corporate
- brilliant poetical
- most pernicious
- dangerous and radical
- healthy and fruitful
- notable and important
- social and technological
- exclusive german
- startlingly simple
- singularly important
- useful minor
- real and momentous
- less revolutionary
- possible and desirable
- more regrettable
- cultural and technical
- dangerous and heretical
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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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