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 orations
Below is a list of describing words for orations. 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 orations:
- eloquent funeral
- long and very elegant
- contemporaneous and interminable
- eloquent and tedious
- free and florid
- impassioned funeral
- grandest funeral
- long and discreet
- ornate and elegant
- resonant and inspirational
- mere laudatory
- sonorous and servile
- exquisite and mellifluous
- severe censorial
- inflated erudite
- shortest great
- last panegyrical
- curious panegyrical
- highest funeral
- affectingly unaffected
- nobler and affectingly unaffected
- continual funeral
- funeral, funeral
- several funeral
- burlesque funeral
- endless but extremely charming
- soft, brief
- winded moral
- previous instructional
- eloquent and happy
- obscure and unconnected
- equally tedious and turgid
- small philanthropic
- men--original
- last prodigal
- monotonous and menacing
- so-called funeral
- caustic and high-minded
- conventional memorial
- sincere funeral
- somewhat incendiary
- pronouncing funeral
- pompous laudatory
- infrequently post-prandial
- eloquent, liberal
- devout and philanthropic
- *synodal
- eloquent ciceronian
- calm and self-sufficient
- also fiery
- mock classic
- ineffably dry
- stilted conversational
- tedious and long-studied
- princely funeral
- athenian forensic
- long-deferred funeral
- powerful and exhaustive
- brilliant, powerful and exhaustive
- beautiful biographical
- eloquent and humorous
- attica--funeral
- well-nigh meaningless
- enthusiastic funeral
- panegyrical funeral
- splendid and patriotic
- laudatory funeral
- long, direct
- thine impudent
- famous funeral
- high fantastical
- excellent funeral
- mock funeral
- annual funeral
- short funeral
- potlitical
- >instructional
- endless potlitical
- official, undelivered
- damned fancy
- elal
- `funereal
- animated obscene
- everywhere funeral
- full and ornate
- common funeral
- fierce and somewhat incoherent
- long and bloodthirsty
- brazenly unapologetic
- parenthetical and pointless
- single, breathless
- eloquent and lucid
- single impassioned
- long and extravagant
- notable funeral
- voluble and eloquent
- true and modest
- simply academic
- same pithy
- pathetic funeral
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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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