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 parent
Below is a list of describing words for parent. 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 parent:
- titular male
- fond careful
- sordid and inhuman
- mighty and mystical
- ancient but unseen
- utterly selfish and rotten
- selfish and rotten
- criminal, fastidious
- grey, sedate
- proud, perplexed
- irate and obstinate
- unjust or tyrannical
- common residual
- wise, loving and pure
- preeminently proper
- dear deserving
- once irresponsible
- common indulgent
- loving but listless
- own unimproved
- fond and enlightened
- benignant and infinite
- careless male
- illustrious and respectable
- human maternal
- primary at-home
- male single
- irrepressibly inventive
- wise but not indulgent
- unfortunate but still proud
- fond and irresponsible
- scrupulous and considerate
- respectable and still prolific
- immediate similar
- troublesome childlike
- affectionate but stern
- fond medical
- strong, vigorous and healthy
- usually fearless and self-assertive
- fearless and self-assertive
- absent-minded but strict
- indiscreet maternal
- gentle and complacent
- fond, unfaithful
- indulgent and unfaithful
- fond and solicitous
- wiser and affectionate
- infinitely wiser and affectionate
- selfish or inefficient
- harsh and almost vindictive
- less well-fitted
- fond and still happy
- far wiser and kinder
- exceptionally wealthy and indulgent
- exquisite, unreasoning
- anxious and industrious
- fond and excellent
- skilful and overwhelming
- practical maternal
- original silky
- unbalanced but very affectionate
- shrewish maternal
- fond but angry
- glorious and gay
- affectionate but inexperienced
- exacting and prudent
- enterprising and disreputable
- still enterprising and disreputable
- fanatically fond
- generous but exacting
- thy ramshackle
- anxious but ignorant
- fond, affectionate and indulgent
- still alive and sensible
- admirable, wise
- extremely dim and vague
- unwilling and unnatural
- wisest and most lovable
- once imprudent
- criminal and hapless
- irate, hungry
- grotesque and mysterious
- dear and most amiable
- well-meaning jewish
- inexperienced or busy
- fond or partial
- indignant ducal
- sinfully indulgent
- despairing and penniless
- superlatively cruel
- superlatively cruel and wicked
- unnatural and treacherous
- stern and inhuman
- indignant and energetic
- veritable and most loving
- wise, uncommon
- anxiously indulgent
- fond and exemplary
- fond despairing
- unfortunate and wretched
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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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