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 mind
Below is a list of describing words for mind. 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 mind:
- joyful and quiet
- communal mortal
- smooth and steadfast
- clear and untouched
- precise but admirably balanced
- free charitable
- dazed fragile
- sleazy, furtive
- still alert and cunning
- mature and exceedingly well-informed
- ebullient erotic
- multifaceted artificial
- subtle and amiable
- devious and clever
- astonishingly devious and clever
- astonishingly devious
- ready and devout
- agile and receptive
- diligent and inventive
- brilliant and mobile
- narrow, unimaginative
- usually comfortable
- precisely scientific
- weak, alien
- second-rate sensitive
- masculine terrestrial
- sweet but addled
- audible public
- now calm and balanced
- individual or mortal
- wavy and tumultuous
- worldly wiser
- gifted and singularly poetic
- extraordinary and superb
- open receptive
- quick, juvenile
- dire royal
- shamefully sick
- unbiased methodical
- still alert and alive
- purposeful, independent
- logical german
- suddenly tranquil
- philosophical and inventive
- inscrutable terrestrial
- simple and rather unsubtle
- clear and uncluttered
- fertile topological
- slimy but agile
- sensible, discerning
- nearly transcendent
- subtle, active
- lately captive
- flighty, undisciplined
- nebulous other
- tiny predatory
- subconscious human
- philosophically perfect
- essentially practical and sober
- essentially practical and active
- candid and well-balanced
- constant, humble
- nasty suspicious
- suspicious inanimate
- markably penetrating
- obscenely suspicious
- devious and penetrating
- fine and arcane
- revolutionary or speculative
- eclectic and vigorous
- nimble and speculative
- quick, logical
- deliciously suspicious
- sweetly devious
- crypto-criminal
- admirably subtle
- exceedingly erotic
- sluggish and sordid
- immature and even morbid
- indefinite and ignorant
- slow but shrewd
- open and unbiased
- youthful and inquiring
- shameless and foolish
- naturally logical
- bold, narrow
- thoughtful and well-regulated
- bright, forceful
- brave and absolute
- least reflective
- soft and benevolent
- trifling, frivolous
- disreputable masculine
- malevolent conscious
- quick and fearfully intelligent
- modest and elegant
- totally rigid
- feckless conscious
- collective mortal
- naturally convoluted
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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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