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 method
Below is a list of describing words for method. 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 method:
- equally streamlined
- absolute safe
- secret, unclean
- ancient, reputable
- foolproof, unambiguous
- indestructible and unambiguous
- antiquated and wasteful
- inverse deductive
- decently satisfactory
- rational deductive
- other daft
- obvious and effectual
- easiest direct
- fair, cheap and easy
- trial, tentative
- accurate and only practicable
- clumsy and inaccurate
- superior and diabolical
- secret and decent
- cheap, practical
- extraordinarly cheap
- easiest and most usual
- direct descriptive
- oldest and most rudimentary
- gentler and wiser
- modern classificatory
- direct deductive
- obvious and expeditious
- inverse, deductive
- simple or asexual
- deductive mathematical
- ordinary and inaccurate
- common electoral
- completely non-invasive
- haphazard hereditary
- concise synthetic
- old, circumstantial
- singular and effective
- desperate but effectual
- quick and inconspicuous
- true and very traditional
- dangerous and incorrect
- intuitive, emotional
- harmless and painless
- perfectly harmless and painless
- inadequate, incompetent
- exact pedestrian
- vile, ambiguous
- simple and successful
- rashly direct
- easiest and most speedy
- altogether unscientific
- prevalent and fashionable
- simplified pay-as-you-go
- recent dreary
- foreseeable computer-based
- highly unprecedented
- oldest survival
- obsolete and unwarranted
- secret, strange and unforeseen
- fantastic and uncertain
- entirely innovative
- lazy and unimaginative
- infamous and illegal
- straightforward and cohesive
- regular, strategical
- curiously uneven and shaky
- uneven and shaky
- complete and economical
- unusual and rather inconvenient
- natural sole
- pregnant, indirect
- modern paramount
- ancient and peculiarly senseless
- practicable and effective
- downright pugnacious
- improbable or improper
- quite uncertain and unreliable
- unhistorical local
- convenient and very accurate
- figures--usual
- peculiarly easy and efficient
- descriptive, discursive
- independent and sincere
- totally independent and sincere
- fairest and most rational
- rational vocal
- most familiar
- critically conscious
- disconcertingly simple and direct
- oral and conversational
- frequently indiscreet
- general synthetical
- practical and advantageous
- economical, practical and advantageous
- exact and delightful
- righteous and progressive
- expensive and quieter
- extremely slow and public
- philosophic, symbolic
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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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