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 intervention
Below is a list of describing words for intervention. 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 intervention:
- definitely minimal
- fresh departmental
- improbable supernatural
- massive physiological
- divine or devilish
- ago diplomatic
- heavy-handed military
- occasional divine
- obvious divine
- dangerous�magical
- direct, demonic
- disquieting and inexplicable
- joyful and miraculous
- rolls--naval
- opportune and active
- redundant do-gooder
- disastrous but well-meaning
- ill-advised diplomatic
- direct and foreign
- incessant and immediate
- slightest female
- anthropomorphic and yet superhuman
- paternal diplomatic
- present, surgical
- selective industrial
- pervasive federal
- active and deliberate
- somehow divine
- occasional merciful
- direct demonic
- other or divine
- simple, mindful
- brief but courageous
- custo\-dial
- immediational custo\-dial
- worse, direct
- messy external
- consistent and calm
- incessant divine
- active, purposive
- formal foreign
- providential and almost unexpected
- unusual and officious
- regular, personal
- direct and miraculous
- immediate and imperious
- friendly ultimate
- signal and surprising
- compelling british
- perpetual semi-official
- direct and coercive
- speedy foreign
- innocent and haphazard
- compelling european
- capricious or miraculous
- forth legislative
- concomitant diplomatic
- miraculous or special
- classically permissible
- sudden and officious
- needless and unhappy
- imply cortical
- previous cortical
- arrival and speedy
- timely arrival and speedy
- unlawful british
- sole and tacit
- austrian but not joint
- immediate turkish
- personal, deliberate
- persistent and decisive
- miraculous or spiritual
- actual or imminent
- clumsy and uninformed
- supply manual
- brief and surely unnecessary
- decisive late
minimal - disastrously intrusive
- immediate psychopharmacological
- human or mechan�ical
- self-sacrificing soviet
- capital and fiscal
- swift�ah�naval
- effective pharmacological
- radical pharmacological
- decisive divine
- military military
- ongoing miraculous
- immediate, powerful
- disruptive, cataclysmic
- divine or mortal
- stylistic divine
- unauthorized supernatural
- chemical and even surgical
- lucky or divine
- serious disturbing
- officious and loquacious
- valid or external
- immediate and demonstrable
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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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