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 intention
Below is a list of describing words for intention. 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 intention:
- deliberate and guilty
- humorous or grave
- deeper divine
- general and evident
- gracious or devout
- thoughtful secret
- direct and new
- less satiric
- habitual and implicit
- moral or politic
- slightest romantic
- prime and longest
- wicked and fraudulent
- evident but obscure
- benevolent or defiant
- vague stupid
- personal and adventurous
- original sincere
- criminal ill
- fraudulent or deceptive
- usually sporadic and casual
- usually sporadic
- primary benevolent
- apparent hostile
- sincere, habitual
- painstaking, literal
- precise allegorical
- lucid higher
- definite symbolic
- conscious collective
- immediate hostile
- real, immediate
- conscious or certain
- delicate and certain
- resolute but wary
- profound and nobler
- lifelong industrious
- actual dire
- equally criminal and foolish
- deliberate and businesslike
- good-will and full
- incestuous and wicked
- obviously baptismal
- pacific or hostile
- infinite culpable
- deliberately perverse
- listless, disdainful
- final and beneficial
- sincere satiric
- disinterested and pure
- obvious and quite futile
- grave and righteous
- inward jesuitical
- absurdly resolute
- profound and hearty
- pious habitual
- noble and conciliatory
- unusual and worthy
- exclusively criminal
- particular anti-national
- finest, fullest
- special heraldic
- constant, deliberate
- evident conciliatory
- perilous and self-sacrificing
- ironic philosophical
- praiseworthy and excellent
- cryptic and circuitous
- laudable and very proper
- mischievous or fraudulent
- proper wicked
- secret but resolute
- moral and highly creditable
- unalterable and deliberate
- distinctly justifiable
- definite, uninterrupted
- imply deliberate
- original amiable
- moral or satirical
- hostile or evil
- all-inclusive and dominant
- unreasonable and incredible
- felonious or murderous
- virtual and implicit
- uninterrupted actual
- implicit or tacit
- virtual and habitual
- actual, virtual and habitual
- habitual and explicit
- habitual and interpretative
- actual, habitual and interpretative
- habitual explicit
- improper or felonious
- soft and tyrannical
- deep-seated satirical
- heartless and malicious
- polemic or dogmatical
- awake lethargic
- criminal and conscious
- perfectly serious and critical
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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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