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 mayors
Below is a list of describing words for mayors. 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 mayors:
- brilliant and impartial
- less macho
- white former
- evil irish
- energetic and class-conscious
- fat and cheerful
- uneducated, provincial
- brual
- brual, unofficial
- usually obnoxious
- former intelligent
- middle-aged, mustachioed
- masterful, coercive
- aggressive and tactful
- radical military
- honorable former
- perky but forceful
- also associate
- former suboficial
- reluctant suboficial
- late suboficial
- unexpectedly deceased
- po\-litically conscious
- present unofficial
- merest provincial
- last pre-revolutionary
- twelfth and best
- politically conscious
- drunken idiotic
- properly correlated
- stolid and stupid
- genial and liberal
- glamorous and famous
- strangest new
- present respectable
- cold-blooded, relentless
- same worshipful
- lone young
- typical provincial
- venerable and excellent
- fat, greedy
- previous democratic
- present radical
- respectable provincial
- french, late
- highly renowned
- irresistible, con
- long and bony
- small but ornate
- poor decrepit
- especially irish
- crime-busting
- openly gay
- efficient and energetic
- soon-to-be former
- former or present
- ever famous
- ruddy little
- few past
- al oficial
- fat, bloated
- fat red-faced
- other metropolitan
- same hospitable
- politically conscious
- deformed little
- expectable
- powerful and popular
- big-town
- two-term
- many provincial
- less excellent
- anterior con
- local spanish
- oficial
- oficial con
- able and vigorous
- able and energetic
- good and honorable
- wealthy and aristocratic
- catedral con
- class-conscious
- fine, upstanding
- damn lucky
- unperturbed
- well-known and popular
- famous ancient
- big-city
- fiery little
- newly-appointed
- small-town
- soft-headed
- pompous little
- youngest
- flabbergasted
- genial old
- pre-revolutionary
- meticulous
- worthy
- nice old
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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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