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 patron
Below is a list of describing words for patron. 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 patron:
- severely judicious
- pompous, glorious
- credulous and guilty
- demure, sophisticated
- nervous and peace-loving
- last and most generous
- proud but grudging
- older, well-dressed
- senior galactic
- responsible elder
- liberal and discerning
- generous but indiscreet
- well-placed potential
- enlightened and voluntary
- zealous and lavish
- generous and all-powerful
- special, generous and all-powerful
- local divine
- anthropomorphic divine
- blind and obedient
- powerful episcopal
- nay undisputed
- gracious and familiar
- powerful galactic
- staid and distant
- sovereign and generous
- shrewd and wrinkled
- probably effectual
- constant and probably effectual
- active and discerning
- opulent and fashionable
- illustrious and judicious
- hitherto puissant
- kindest and most consistent
- pompous would-be
- extraordinarily generous and successful
- eccentric but liberal
- diligent and powerful
- cruelly officious
- somewhat selfish and indolent
- worthy and powerful
- rich or royal
- enthusiastic and acquisitive
- somewhat quick and hasty
- great lovable
- adventurous and practical
- former condescending
- old and most loving
- wealthy and depraved
- magnificently masterful
- cultured and ardent
- capricious and exacting
- fairly credulous
- former nominal
- mysterious and influential
- excellent and watchful
- traditional federal
- avowed and notorious
- real and consistent
- daringly powerful
- new and frequent
- last longtime
- imaginative, daring
- randomly unlucky
- occasional drop-in
- generous but tasteless
- archetypal feudal
- relentlessly generous
- benevolent former
- sinister and secretive
- regular and generous
- dull and unsympathetic
- frequent and steady
- smooth triumphant
- generous and discerning
- friendly bearded
- self-willed and self-indulgent
- graciously condescending
- interested private
- portly jovial
- wealthy would-be
- thoroughly grateful
- wealthy and extravagant
- fearless and zealous
- unhappy and generous
- the--principal
- noblest and most enlightened
- liberal and tasteful
- unlawful or otherwise inappropriate
- generous and sole
- few galactic
- unknown but powerful
- occasional wealthy
- generous and successful
- indulgent and generous
- zealous and wealthy
- old and vicious
- dear, unfortunate
- professional social
- ancient and mythical
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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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