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 leadership
Below is a list of describing words for leadership. 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 leadership:
- uninterrupted civilian
- personal imperial
- formalized or hereditary
- own repressive
- recent forthright
- undisputed worldwide
- nominal and loose
- leader--personal
- heroic leader--personal
- hierarchical religious
- centralized, centralized
- spiritual and military
- benign and selfless
- resolute, forceful
- selfish industrial
- purely financial and commercial
- true governmental
- selfish and serviceable
- bourgeois or proletarian
- regional and international
- doubtless outstanding
- radi\-cal
- strong, unchallenged
- young, forthright
- self-seeking and misguided
- efficient and inspiring
- constructive and righteous
- supply skilled
- judicious and far-sighted
- dynamic and purposeful
- indisputable naval
- long and consummate
- enterprising and responsible
- edifying practical
- aggressive but constructive
- simply irresponsible
- bold and clear-eyed
- zeal and skillful
- ancient, undisputed
- direct and skillful
- centralized full-time
- tenacious personal
- same inefficient
- reactionary and futile
- inspiring or even efficient
- characteristically weak
- effective and law-abiding
- comparatively able
- clear-headed, unselfish
- wise unquestioned
- conscious triumphant
- concerted and aggressive
- =--real
- voluntary, local
- vigorous presidential
- creative, effective
- analytical and judicial
- competent and aggressive
- adequate, intelligent
- inspiring capable
- railroaders--radical
- bold trenchant
- incomparable and faultless
- unrivaled and fruitful
- equally authoritative and decisive
- astute clerical
- resourceful and inspiring
- wise democratic
- active and secular
- rather federal
- magnificent and aggressive
- cool and intelligent
- supposedly necessary
- pseudomatriarchal
- political, civil and religious
- unique and inspiring
- graceful and unconscious
- military chinese
political and religious - strong, savvy
- down forceful
- long-established technological
- identifiable and coherent
- generally sure
- sporadic, cyclical
- visible, influential
- your unsurpassed
- maternal or amazonian
- conspicuous and valiant
- bold and visionary
- slow and inept
- increasingly slow and inept
- intellectual and spiritual
- usually bureaucratic
- generally sluggish and inept
- strong, insightful
- suitably inspiring
- devious and selfish
- skilled and enterprising
- young and unselfish
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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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