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 opponent
Below is a list of describing words for opponent. 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 opponent:
- unknown but dangerous
- smaller or female
- inflexible and uncompromising
- verbal and philosophical
- clever mortal
- dangerously capable
- strenuous and formidable
- extremely clever and versatile
- infamous and legendary
- brutish, stupid
- strong but unjust
- equally stout and resolute
- undeniably dangerous
- maddeningly effective
- staunch and even bitter
- formidable and vicious
- plain-spoken and successful
- uncompromising and successful
- zealous and ingenious
- watchful and formidable
- dangerous, rational
- keen but unsuccessful
- dangerous and quick
- seemingly triumphant
- shrewd and somewhat baffling
- scientifically formidable
- canny and dangerous
- slippery, talented
- putative democratic
- new and completely unexpected
- lucky, haphazard
- formidable and resourceful
- worthy and formidable
- solitary dangerous
- supposedly clean
- unskilled but murderous
- enormously strong and swift
- single, crazed
- contemporary and theological
- tricky and resourceful
- bigoted and rather brutal
- feeble and puny
- youthful and then unknown
- ignorant monkish
- plucky and rather difficult
- grim and sturdy
- clever and somewhat turbulent
- tough and daring
- young and still unspent
- deadliest irish
- able and very logical
- strenuous and most able
- unrelenting and fearless
- furious and unwieldy
- well-informed infidel
- inflexible and terrible
- resourceful and strong-willed
- unexpectedly weak
- bitter and fearless
- contemporary and doughty
- obstinate and offensive
- life-long and bitter
- vulnerable and most obstinate
- honorable and high-toned
- intolerant and scornful
- diametrical and implacable
- puny, invisible
- glib radical
- political and academical
- uncompromising and bitter
- would-be impertinent
- intrepid and cunning
- eloquent, uncompromising
- indignant but despairing
- charmingly amiable and courteous
- indefatigable and important
- slight, resolute
- eloquent, unflinching
- inconsistent and abusive
- headstrong and ignorant
- younger and feminine
- huge but unwieldy
- chief and worthy
- prospective and dangerous
- acute dialectical
- invincible supernatural
- formidable irish
- skilful and chivalrous
- brave, skilful and chivalrous
- fierce youthful
- interesting and formidable
- brilliant and vigilant
- less pert
- senile and irresolute
- average or typical
- wicked and weak
- seemingly inferior
- last viable
- monstrous shaggy
- life-long political
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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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