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 partnership
Below is a list of describing words for partnership. 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 partnership:
- coequal voluntary
- ultimate junior
- long and mutually profitable
- scarcely tacit
- world-wide, peace-loving
- temporary and unequal
- hostile, embattled
- true and flawless
- busy but peaceful
- long-term, dependable
- reluctant three-way
- informal silent
- uncomfortable and unwanted
- quiet, unwritten
- long, happy and productive
- matrimonial and financial
- secret and informal
- sensible and happy
- amazing and singular
- meaningless, man-made
- worldwide, peace-loving
- well-equipped journalistic
- mutually valuable
- beneficial external
- wholly unequal
- previous unlucky
- profitable junior
- fortuitous involuntary
- noble and life-long
- decidedly politic
- silent, limited
- legal conjugal
- permanent and mutually satisfactory
- mystic unrestricted
- abortive episcopal
- frequently triumphant
- limited matrimonial
- limited or particular
- uniform limited
- intimate physiological
- mysterious literary
- strange, tentative
- strong dynamic
- tense but efficient
- wary but effective
- properly sympathetic
- curious but fruitful
- convenient and probably transient
- subsequent uneasy
- three-way professional
- permanent and equal
- odd and startling
- fraternal and religious
- equal and permanent
- one-deal
- fanciful dramatic
- wide fraudulent
- new and creative
- mutually free and independent
- free silent
- real european
- equal human
- fruitful new
- open and serious
- most fitting
- consistent and effectual
- good, well-balanced
- goddamned limited
- odd, unspoken
- probably transient
- fully reciprocal
- great intimate
- long-standing literary
- viable symbiotic
- impending criminal
- national oceanographic
- actual or constructive
- direct or remote
- mutually free
- serious long-term
- individual or private
- strange and volatile
- general and compulsory
- old-fashioned simple
- free and intimate
- perfect and equal
- financial or commercial
- span>legal
- happy and productive
- effective and stable
- full and equal
- queer domestic
- open and willing
- profitable literary
- actual or apparent
- similar silent
- exclusive religious
- curious three-cornered
- literary and patriotic
- amicable and satisfactory
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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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