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 obeisance
Below is a list of describing words for obeisance. 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 obeisance:
- ritual, reverent
- full prostrate
- modestly apologetic
- prodigious deep
- grotesque, terrifying
- immediate, fearful
- good-will and servile
- formal, stylized
- small obligatory
- grave and stately little
- low, monastic
- graceful, deep
- characteristically graceful
- profound and lavish
- graceful, reverential
- meek formal
- deep, abject
- low and reverential
- deep and graceful
- terrific pantomimic
- obscene, unintended
- lowest and humblest
- profound and deferential
- graceful but profound
- mighty respectful
- similar involuntary
- perfectly reverential
- silent and low
- respectful but haughty
- especial reverential
- profound and grave
- proper low
- profound feminine
- due and humble
- profound mock
- humble mental
- proper and graceful
- graceful and impressive
- graceful and modest
- full, graceful
- low and respectful
- profound oriental
- stately old-world
- especially deep
- low and formal
- deep and respectful
- long, profound
- properly humble
- low, formal
- low and deep
- humble and loyal
- grave, courteous
- slight, careless
- brief but clear
- almost puritanical
- deep and grateful
- deep and reverential
- far shallower
- low and bitter
- proper, formal
- profound
- other, subtler
- quiet, respectful
- reverential
- loyal british
- usual deep
- deep and long
- small, graceful
- much external
- promising eternal
- respectful
- strictly formal
- solemn little
- barely adequate
- unusually low
- last low
- usual oriental
- special public
- semi-oriental
- proud and noble
- reverent
- same deep
- apparently meaningless
- still lower
- full imperial
- low
- filial
- abject
- full formal
- ritual
- such abject
- horizontal and vertical
- token
- good-will
- cursory
- deferential
- deep
- perfunctory
- humble
- ironical
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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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