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 monarch
Below is a list of describing words for monarch. 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 monarch:
- humane great
- insolent absolute
- mild and lawful
- genial and approachable
- now loud and open
- veritably grand
- gigantic and unshakable
- enterprising and powerful
- puissant and most renowned
- half-forgotten petty
- profuse and corrupt
- voluptuous and careless
- former metal
- reclusive high
- hollow woodland
- chief, stern
- arbitrary heathen
- fearless, absolute
- mad bavarian
- unfortunate and sad
- unknown, babylonian
- powerful and bloodthirsty
- self-willed and overweening
- capricious, imperious
- self-willed and arbitrary
- ill-advised and sensual
- active, absolute
- powerful and august
- amorous but highly jealous
- noble and crafty
- absolute and most powerful
- subtle, resourceful
- truly liberal and enlightened
- sole egyptian
- impetuous and youthful
- youngest but most powerful
- wisest and wealthiest
- capable, hereditary
- fierce metal
- constitutional, hereditary
- late enlightened
- powerful and liberal
- particular renowned
- acquisitive and stubborn
- wicked metal
- fat, unimportant
- remote, central
- godlike absolute
- bearded western
- generous and wonderful
- diplomatic constitutional
- defunct but estimable
- careless but not ungrateful
- luxurious and superstitious
- exacting, voluptuous
- striped and whiskered
- successful all-around
- candidly enamored
- powerful and highly energetic
- enraged and stubborn
- ineffably vile
- puissant and elegant
- famous and merry
- ambitious or ignorant
- treacherous moorish
- ever wrathful
- downtrodden old
- babylonian vassal
- incomparable and glorious
- showy and ambitious
- active, enlightened and progressive
- wary and heartless
- finally sole
- enterprising and victorious
- never tawny
- liberal, bourgeois
- apocryphal british
- truly wise and patriotic
- weak and degraded
- marvellously idle
- powerful, far-famed
- generous and almost extravagant
- unchecked and unqualified
- subtle and interested
- lawful and absolute
- pacific and indigent
- inglorious but agreeable
- hapless and ill-fated
- radiantly stupid
- blase and alcoholic
- wise, noble and powerful
- sleepless and impatient
- malevolently skilful
- valiant and politic
- carnal tyrannical
- conscientious and doggedly resolute
- doggedly resolute
- obstinate but well-meaning
- sensual and vindictive
- wealthy and absolute
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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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