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 invasion
Below is a list of describing words for invasion. 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 invasion:
- insidious clammy
- embarrassing and unwarranted
- minor and harmless
- convenient alien
- possible mundane
- oppressive and predatory
- nocturnal alien
- legendary, classic
- all-out, immediate
- greatest seaborne
- shamelessly subversive
- impending french
- last haitian
- swedish and irish
- new and far prettier
- unjustifiable military
- large and especially vicious
- eventual full-scale
- sudden, full-scale
- portugal and subsequent
- deliberate and grand
- long or destructive
- hostile and peaceful
- fresh syrian
- permanent electronic
- actual, serious
- thy unjust
- singular psychical
- ongoing soviet
- token airborne
- bloody, methodical
- absurd and unstoppable
- random fungal
- alien cellular
- patriotically unforgivable
- major and patriotically unforgivable
- deliciously brutal
- imminent israeli
- deeply unsatisfactory
- apparent impending
- deliberate inter-sexual
- fictitious norwegian
- abortive chinese
- consequential aerial
- full-scale alien
- unavoidable german
- probably unexpected
- improbable hostile
- impending parochial
- decisive and eventful
- orignal german
- huge tartar
- mechanical and inappropriate
- unsuccessful turkish
- short-lived colonial
- modest alien
- prehistoric gaelic
- wanton and unrestricted
- picturesque but undesirable
- present audacious
- new fiercer
- foreign papal
- terrible tartar
- tumultuous or hasty
- wanton and most reprehensible
- extraordinary and actual
- of--ah--mental
- evidently well-planned
- careless, peaceable
- all-powerful auxiliary
- cheaply theatrical
- still further and graver
- further and graver
- unwarranted and iniquitous
- pompous and successful
- ill-conceived french
- fresh sudden
- prior german
- formidable and sudden
- peritoneal or mesenteric
- unwarranted and menacing
- insidious and continuous
- unexpected german
- unfortunate swedish
- black and superstitious
- successful and disastrous
- unwelcome and unwarrantable
- intense spanish
- so-called kurdish
- usually slow and intermittent
- irresistible barbaric
- inexplicable noisy
- successful interplanetary
- imminent french
- major viral
- last ethiopian
- possible spanish
- overwhelming foreign
- sudden unaccustomed
- literal demonic
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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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