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 moving
Below is a list of describing words for moving. 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 moving:
- thin and dead
- bold but dangerous
- tricky seventh
- difficult first-level
- slightest open
- deliberately poor
- poor strategic
- valiant and bold
- boldest and most dangerous
- final bold
- unnecessary defensive
- instinctive but perhaps dangerous
- perfectly legitimate
- acute strategic
- fluidly powerful
- next shrewd
- recent and rather imprudent
- short, abortive
- obviously false and childish
- closest dorsal
- blatant, suspicious
- smart political
- bold and unforeseen
- doubtless fatal
- desperate and doubtless fatal
- elastic and endless
- surreptitious or dishonorable
- dangerously impulsive
- bold and ultimately effective
- ultimately effective
- dramatic lateral
- apparent federal
- hopeful, jubilant
- single, lightning-like
- quick and unmistakable
- slightest wrong
- rude and impudent
- equally disruptive
- politically bad
- angry, thoughtless
- metal pivot
- astute and daring
- single cunning
- huge strategical
- single hospitable
- simple but critical
- deft defensive
- satisfactory interim
- astonishingly aggressive
- quick, disruptive
- slightest menacing
- adequate tactical
- strategic and almost bloodless
- daring but absurd
- great anti-democratic
- clever strategetical
- shrewd, political
- faster next
- outstandingly dumb
- slightest false
- single overt
- single false
- accidental wrong
- technically aggressive
- logical next
- smooth, lightning-fast
- false and childish
- cool automotive
- clean, strategic
- single unauthorized
- complete unpremeditated
- lousy diplomatic
- fast one-two
- slow, definite
- wrong, unwelcome
- abrupt or forceful
- damn shrewd
- smart, cautious
- stupidest stupid
- necessary or practical
- manifest next
- sharp and vicious
- sneaky and ingenious
- thoroughly sneaky and ingenious
- thoroughly sneaky
- intelligently responsive
- uncharacteristically daring
- overconfident, disastrous
- practical and necessary
- slow possessive
- sudden offensive
- bold, overwhelming
- overtly menacing
- easy, agile
- reasonably trouble-free
- smart survival
- soft and unnervingly tactile
- unnervingly tactile
- dishearteningly clever
- “real bad
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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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