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 member
Below is a list of describing words for member. 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 member:
- nonregional
- honorary and corresponding
- especially curious and courageous
- parliament--liberal
- thoroughly unofficial
- indignant and aristocratic
- successful, responsible
- median individual
- highly indignant and aristocratic
- dutiful, plain
- enlightened and exemplary
- particularly enlightened and exemplary
- ominous and horrid
- good-humored junior
- separate, autonomous
- typical unwilling
- smaller and female
- somewhat smaller and female
- wiser, sophisticated
- benevolent and trustworthy
- feeblest and most obscure
- rigid six-inch
- fully hard
- compatible sixth
- largest or prettiest
- curious and courageous
- occasionally corresponding
- reliably dishonest
- senior tribunal
- honest autobiographical
- honorary or corresponding
- poor auxiliary
- influential secular
- naturally scant
- extremely esthetic
- equal and worthy
- madcap radical
- newest and junior
- idle or unwilling
- ordinary independent
- reasonably guileless
- mischievous and criminal
- keenest and most important
- law-abiding, productive
- frenzied and objectionable
- ranking top
- idle or unprofitable
- deft, clean-cut
- clean and valuable
- genuinely coherent
- independent grown-up
- latest and most junior
- depressingly keen
- once shrewd and brutal
- well-bred or high-up
- happy and proper
- single nationalist
- honorable rural
- equilateral or independent
- gay and apparently care-free
- upright architectural
- zealous and prominent
- commonplace, zealous
- sincere and exemplary
- common actual
- whole honorary
- young, well-respected
- lightest and most nimble
- useful, ordinary
- disaffected and insubordinate
- misguided but zealous
- profligate and unpopular
- influential republican
- particularly enlightened
- comparatively monstrous
- old and senior
- intense senior
- productive but characterless
- credible and unimpeachable
- strongest unemployed
- dependable younger
- armored manipulative
- limp genital
- eighth and most unusual
- technically suitable
- virtuous and sane
- human and senior
- monumental genital
- ranking liberal
- thoroughly venal
- recipient and former
- outstanding and completely stable
- ostensibly ill
- humble or inconspicuous
- modest and harmless
- eminent but now deceased
- a--er--general
- conspicuous but somewhat unimportant
- dynamic and highly promising
- youthful and virile
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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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