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 interruption
Below is a list of describing words for interruption. 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 interruption:
- improper and vexatious
- rude and disheartening
- horrid and unusual
- disagreeable and intrusive
- commonplace, trivial
- curious and wholly unexpected
- disgusting and ludicrous
- clearly unwelcome
- momentary necessary
- consequently impending
- occasionally momentary
- farther parliamentary
- slight and terse
- bitterly annoying
- futile and scandalous
- unexpected and wholly unprecedented
- rude and incomprehensible
- boisterous and unlawful
- distinct cadential
- occasional periodic
- rare and only violent
- seemingly maladroit
- lengthy and unexpected
- eerie, jubilant
- concerted and unintelligible
- further grown-up
- single and very grave
- unintentional, conscious
- unconscious, rude
- serious and wholly unexpected
- singularly portentous and terrible
- singularly portentous
- subsequent ever-increasing
- strange and even startling
- single and temporary
- obscure linear
- quiet but imperative
- strange and unannounced
- long and almost total
- sullen, malevolent
- extensive and obvious
- purely impertinent
- flat, direct
- despicably rude
- rude and sharp
- rather welcome
- short and suspicious
- new, unwelcome
- strange and rather horrifying
- annoying and involuntary
- unscheduled spatial
- previous coital
- current regrettable
- annoying and convoluted
- actually welcome
- foolish, pointless
- unpleasant and unscheduled
- startling and blood-chilling
- seamless, strange
- withoutcommercial
- obviously unexpected
- oddly polite
- intolerably disagreeable
- cadential
- hardly momentary
- exciting and ludicrous
- late unjust
- sufficiently irritating
- portentous and terrible
- ominous and unaccountable
- sudden or undue
- horribly inopportune
- singular and somewhat ludicrous
- entire ludicrous
- sudden and evidently unintentional
- evidently unintentional
- troublesome and annoying
- trivial, easy
- harsh, unwelcome
- violent but transient
- rude, sudden
- trivial commonplace
- sudden and formidable
- amazing and shocking
- crudely artless
- long and total
- sudden or unaccustomed
- occasional and partial
- ugly man-made
- thankfully brief
- stern and startling
- rather discourteous
- rude and inconvenient
- sudden and rude
- dark linear
- abrupt and alarming
- somewhat quick
- singular but characteristic
- next unpleasant
- sudden and rather violent
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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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