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 menace
Below is a list of describing words for menace. 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 menace:
- herculean alien
- equally insidious
- new and equally insidious
- certain silky
- constant, remorseless
- incessant and mysterious
- pure feral
- vague potential
- vast and revolting
- bad extraterrestrial
- bitter, nameless
- indiscriminating, dangerous
- confident, passionate
- stealthy, unnatural
- hostile warlike
- favorite and most frequent
- unspeakable and incorporeal
- treacherous and vast
- external alien
- paraterrestrial
- less paramount
- dim atavistical
- lesser but still serious
- dismal and sepulchral
- unspeakable solemn
- faceless, implacable
- ever-present and most potent
- direct and greatest
- lurid and spectacular
- dark incredible
- serious and effectual
- immense, implacable
- mysterious unuttered
- sheer bulky
- deadly unnatural
- hulking, massive
- hulking, prehistoric
- imminent and unstoppable
- deftly feigned
- real commie
- lumpish monochrome
- cold and incalculable
- fearsome and haunting
- silent, fearsome and haunting
- gigantic, awful
- amazing and unique
- intelligent unknown
- fraught, rough
- idle impotent
- continually greater and greater
- continually greater
- bleak, sheer
- unbearable but salutary
- mighty militant
- fearful prophetic
- grateful, stern
- sudden knifelike
- restless, unorganized
- savage, abysmal
- special and unintelligible
- continual, nerve-racking
- overwhelming, unappeasable
- silent, nerve-racking
- therefore sinister
- awful and new
- former powerless
- constant, stealthy
- arrogant and disquieting
- potential brown
- famous and dramatic
- constant and grave
- undisguised and formidable
- indefinable terrible
- voiceless but terrible
- grim perpetual
- constant and formidable
- imminent perpetual
- certain terrific
- definitely evil
- less intangible
- mighty national
- deep cosmic
- monolithic evil
- enough sullen
- vague but insistent
- atrical
- mere ridiculous
- hesitant, unspoken
- significantly dangerous
- new and significantly dangerous
- deviously clever
- real door-to-door
- silent dreadful
- sinister, purposeful
- silky, lazy
- fierce, terrifying
- grim psychic
- bitter vindictive
- atavistical
- serious and insoluble
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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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