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 investment
Below is a list of describing words for investment. 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 investment:
- direct foreign
- foreign direct
- private and external
- significant capital
- long-run foreign
- traditional safe
- safe remunerative
- inadequate new
- automatic, original
- favorable private
- sole major
- joint genetic
- prudent, intelligent and faithful
- heavy idle
- staid blue-chip
- minimal foreign
- world-especially private
- profitable and legal
- pathetically slight
- splendidly conservative
- inadequate capital
- surprisingly well-managed
- foreign institutional
- sacred and safe
- equally sacred and safe
- long-term commercial
- greater western
- considerable capital
- initial horrendous
- anemic foreign
- initial suitable
- minor capital
- heavily leveraged
- previously negative
- profitable and liberal
- higher domestic
- private and foreign
- principal capital
- much capital
- enormously appealing
- male parental
- worthwhile or safe
- daring and shrewd
- conservative short-term
- rational capitalist
- prodigious initial
- legitimate individual
- safe, social
- temporary profitable
- strong bacterial
- cheap and worth-while
- simple, cheap and worth-while
- permanent or active
- satisfactory private
- absolutely safe and profitable
- safe and fair
- better long-time
- safe and portable
- additional foreign
- promising but rather hazardous
- friendlier foreign
- loose, cellular
- substantial initial
- safe and marketable
- thick and uncouth
- comparatively unorthodox
- new bilateral
- volatile, short-term
- safe capital
- remunerative financial
- non-essential capital
- skeletal or other
- similar osseous
- permanent, promising
- uneconomical maximum
- practical and commercially economical
- domestic private
- large emotional
- considerable foreign
- massive, long-term
- offshore capital
- small speculative
- healthy initial
- private industrial
- safe and remunerative
- abiding and complete
- economically unsound
- nation-wide leveraged
- enormous capital
- huge initial
- enormous emotional
- substantial foreign
- initial capital
- sure and profitable
- big initial
- billion-pound
- substantial new
- strong foreign
- major capital
- recent foreign
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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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