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 navigator
Below is a list of describing words for navigator. 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 navigator:
- rear, nominal
- enthusiastic, enlightened
- second chief
- daring but controversial
- faultlessly impeccable
- enterprising spanish
- ill-fated and intrepid
- unsuspecting portuguese
- great and certainly humane
- accurate and skilful
- worthy portuguese
- particularly trustworthy and reliable
- tolerably scientific
- unscientific and practical
- sturdy and renowned
- dogmatical old
- eminent portuguese
- courageous and successful
- great ambitious
- strapping, muscular and masculine
- outstandingly competent
- skilled and exceptional
- indifferent, timid
- cadaverous, nameless
- obviously gay
- frail psychic
- certainly humane
- likewise honest
- skilled and astute
- inexperienced but confident
- french global
- famous portuguese
- best and most skillful
- skilful and fortunate
- cautious and intelligent
- swart old
- bold and sacrilegious
- intrepid and skilful
- spare real
- muscular and masculine
- intertial
- own personal
- still young and vulnerable
- safe and cautious
- exact and diligent
- heroic and steadfast
- enterprising and deserving
- particularly trustworthy
- able italian
- discreet and skilful
- particularly erratic
- skilful and bold
- well-known swedish
- enterprising dutch
- scientific and adventurous
- enterprising and indefatigable
- correct and able
- trustworthy and reliable
- modest french
- thoughtless or careless
- able and scientific
- great and cunning
- great arctic
- fearless and capable
- reliable new
- single skilled
- skilled and practised
- extremely skilful
- excellent and skilful
- later dutch
- quick, skillful
- horribly deformed
- famous dutch
- daring and skillful
- able and spirited
- bold and intelligent
- discontented young
- greatest technical
- handsome, dark-skinned
- skilful and daring
- ignorant or careless
- unfortunate french
- a‰rial
- great and incomparable
- bloody awful
- enough general
- resolute old
- hardy old
- other courageous
- doughty old
- wise young
- less mysterious
- same able
- careful and skilful
- complete general
- lend-lease
- per-sonal
- exceedingly careful
- adventurous little
- thin young
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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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