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 intentions
Below is a list of describing words for intentions. 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 intentions:
- traditional belligerent
- deliberate and guilty
- commonest definite
- humorous or grave
- same lewd
- deeper divine
- inefficient good
- general and evident
- righteous and honorable
- annual good
- gracious or devout
- usually undesirable
- wicked, damned
- best, intense
- mutual but contradictory
- thoughtful secret
- well-known and avowed
- direct and new
- mysterious paternal
- less satiric
- pointedly persuasive
- habitual and implicit
- traitorous or unlawful
- moral or politic
- clear polemical
- patriotic or virtuous
- restless and diabolical
- pacific and amicable
- still unconscious and accidental
- honest and mad
- slightest romantic
- prime and longest
- wicked and fraudulent
- benevolent, disinterested
- evident but obscure
- avowed good
- benevolent or defiant
- origninal
- vague stupid
- overt romantic
- personal and adventurous
- largely unfulfilled
- original sincere
- primitive limited
- criminal ill
- secret, malevolent
- fraudulent or deceptive
- presumptuous good
- usually sporadic and casual
- wild, good
- usually sporadic
- personal and evil
- primary benevolent
- sincerely good and noble
- apparent hostile
- sincerely good
- sincere, habitual
- uninformed good
- painstaking, literal
- fixedly hostile
- precise allegorical
- benevolent and loyal
- lucid higher
- various and often hostile
- definite symbolic
- hostile and criminal
- conscious collective
- immediate hostile
- noble and heroical
- real, immediate
- piercingly pure
- conscious or certain
- transcendental good
- delicate and certain
- honorable patriotic
- resolute but wary
- wholesome and innocent
- profound and nobler
- unspoken but fairly obvious
- lifelong industrious
- unknown but certainly undesirable
- actual dire
- insidious and vile
- equally criminal and foolish
- arrival and obviously peaceful
- deliberate and businesslike
- best and most constructive
- good-will and full
- deeply malevolent
- incestuous and wicked
- undoubtedly sincere and honest
- obviously baptismal
- malicious and devilish
- pacific or hostile
- doubtless honest and good
- infinite culpable
- purest and most laudable
- deliberately perverse
- criminal or counter-revolutionary
- listless, disdainful
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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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