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 interviews
Below is a list of describing words for interviews. 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 interviews:
- brief and unhelpful
- sardonic and cryptic
- social or confidential
- long and peremptory
- mendoza--final
- aggressive and ironical
- equally culpable and ridiculous
- merest few
- peaceful but treacherous
- cheery and innocuous
- somewhat delicate and private
- short and rather agonizing
- painful and stormy
- *personal
- tiresome but necessary
- polite and erudite
- long and most confidential
- privy virtual
- brief but somewhat unpleasant
- interminable private
- final and secret
- wholly morbid and unnatural
- wholly morbid
- unprofitable and embarrassing
- regrettably short
- clear investigative
- horrible two-hour
- amiable, inconclusive
- routine journalistic
- frequent and uninterrupted
- customary one-on-one
- important, unavoidable
- uninterrupted private
- final and fateful
- dangerous and purposeless
- brief but crucial
- last, exciting
- recent and impassioned
- important and final
- in-depth personal
- rather agonizing
- brief but vehement
- many protracted
- various media-related
- definitively abject
- boringly standard
- truly face-to-face
- penetrating, thoughtful
- overlong and pointless
- peculiar data-gathering
- infuriating and futile
- numerous informal
- depressing, pointless
- frequent unsolicited
- totally factual
- extremely affectionate and confidential
- somewhat profitable
- disastrous royal
- long and somewhat profitable
- fancy disagreeable
- long and eminently satisfactory
- studiously incidental
- affectionate but nearly silent
- numerous and very confidential
- mysterious and interminable
- other and frequent
- brilliantly sarcastic
- short but blissful
- singular momentary
- daily sad
- mysterious but fruitful
- disagreeable childish
- unexpected confidential
- several unaccountable
- brief and exceedingly banal
- wonderful diplomatic
- exceedingly banal
- new real-life
- disagreeable and disappointing
- similar demonological
- unwelcome and inopportune
- innumerable fake
- absurd and most disagreeable
- brief or long
- killingly proper
- endless private
- angry and confusing
- respective embarrassing
- short and bold
- lengthy and most startling
- short and belligerent
- strange and almost comic
- long and sociable
- accidental and almost fatal
- long and very cordial
- mute dim
- unexpectedly profitable
- injudicial, inquisitorial
- briefest preliminary
- formal and fruitless
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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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