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 management
Below is a list of describing words for management. 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 management:
- poor macroeconomic
- poor fiscal
- able and thoroughly business-like
- mechanical vocal
- top-notch fiscal
- prudent macroeconomic
- lax and unsuccessful
- responsible fiscal
- prudent financial
- private and unorganized
- management--general
- artful or dishonest
- dainty and skilful
- past domestic
- immediate, real-time
- average traditional
- sometimes ineffective
- skillful and decent
- skill and good
- capital and better
- larger, pecuniary
- reckless, irresponsible and arrogant
- irresponsible and arrogant
- efficient and progressive
- pan-environmental
- simplified diabetic
- adequate able
- due and skilful
- artful and secret
- incautious or incompetent
- capricious and questionable
- skilled and profitable
- strange and defective
- inept and incompetent
- totally inept and incompetent
- totally inept
- simply parochial
- imprudent and reckless
- clerical and junior
- thrifty and skilful
- attentive and skilful
- effete upper
- judicious moral
- day-by-day ecological
- macroecological
- day-to-day hospital
- recent harsh
- poor or corrupt
- orchidectural
- acoustic and orchidectural
- excess and indiscreet
- prudent and adroit
- sordid or cruel
- weak and disgraceful
- highly uncommercial
- conciliatory and equitable
- economical and natural
- new incompetent
- standard, scientific
- frugal and equal
- perfunctory and often venal
- hitherto glorious
- hitherto glorious and successful
- steady and cautious
- mining-district--general
- skillful and patriotic
- frugal industrious
- capital and civilised
- liberal, intelligent
- different and perfectly new
- frugal and paternal
- dangerous, shrewd and wise
- monopolistic commercial
- individual or aristocratic
- corporate or democratic
- open-handed, profuse
- traditional and transitory
- progressive traditional
- modern traditional
- old-time traditional
- typical traditional
- artful and judicious
- quiet and adept
- bad or oppressive
- painstaking and wise
- honest, efficient and economical
- inefficient and extravagant
- partial and unfair
- careful uninterrupted
- sane and considerate
- inconspicuous and indirect
- blamelessly inconspicuous and indirect
- blamelessly inconspicuous
- skillful financial
- quick and competent
- internal consular
- perverse and senseless
- small and incapable
- capital, efficient
- regular and honest
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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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