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 monograph
Below is a list of describing words for monograph. 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 monograph:
- relentlessly inaccurate
- eccentric and relentlessly inaccurate
- careful patristic
- extremely useful and comprehensive
- singularly fascinating and interesting
- relatively obsolescent
- no-lesseternal
- thorough and authentic
- slight but vivid
- briskly enthusiastic
- illuminating and intimate
- singularly illuminating and intimate
- picturesque but bitter
- remarkably acute and accurate
- fine and still valuable
- archaeological or topographical
- next comprehensive
- profoundest available
- critical, historical
- useful and comprehensive
- straight discursive
- short and substantial
- manual or scientific
- exceedingly valuable and beautiful
- excellent and exhaustive
- admirable and fascinating
- _occupational
- splendid and exhaustive
- scientific and valuable
- late biographical
- best topographical
- singularly illuminating
- minutely exact
- next academic
- fascinating and interesting
- recent complete
- excellent and thorough
- creditable and useful
- separate and complete
- witty and profound
- recent excellent
- complete ethnological
- inevitable german
- chief recent
- acute and accurate
- valuable and comprehensive
- instructive and useful
- short historical
- comprehensive little
- exhaustive scientific
- pure economic
- able and original
- singularly fascinating
- important and exhaustive
- able and comprehensive
- almost exhaustive
- later buddhist
- thoroughly exhaustive
- complete and authoritative
- long unfinished
- important recent
- laborious and painstaking
- exhaustive
- excellent and interesting
- still valuable
- truly classic
- exceedingly rare
- remarkably acute
- small and unpretentious
- recent educational
- witty little
- altogether admirable
- absorbingly interesting
- suggestive little
- german official
- valuable and beautiful
- extraordinarily interesting
- delightful and instructive
- great classic
- extremely useful
- unpublished
- valuable little
- excellent little
- careful and painstaking
- patristic
- inaccurate
- brilliant little
- interesting little
- still unfinished
- rather rare
- interesting historical
- medal
- comparatively short
- interesting and useful
- somewhat lengthy
- entire german
- admirable
- exceedingly valuable
- ethnological
- more characteristic
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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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