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 peace
Below is a list of describing words for peace. 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 peace:
- righteous and speedy
- numbing, false
- treacherous separate
- unbroken internal
- standard and international
- evil and loving
- apparently durable
- sleepy, misty
- wary, tentative
- calm and sinless
- immediate democratic
- soft and eternal
- artificial or short-lived
- wonderful, buoyant
- uneasy internal
- solemn, abiding
- insecure and scandalous
- profitable but disgraceful
- hasty and disadvantageous
- present-day defensive
- barely dominant
- honorable and durable
- perfect attainable
- hopeful, gentle
- permanent and honorable
- uninterrupted continental
- long and comparatively prosperous
- sure, empty
- usual volatile
- immediate and equitable
- extraordinary remote
- so-called endless
- general or separate
- connubial and communal
- sudden and disgraceful
- eternal and unclouded
- meek harmonious
- nearer triumphant
- prosperous and permanent
- endless impertinent
- stab--eternal
- short stab--eternal
- revolutionary government--general
- comparative industrial
- boldest thy
- wonderful, matchless
- curiously perfect
- blissful inner
- tremulous and lustral
- icy, fragile
- intermittent tribal
- bumbling western
- fragile three-way
- mystic and intrinsic
- strange and final
- strange abiding
- dreamy, calm
- apparent and hypocritical
- unsafe and dependent
- already tempting
- thereof sweet
- subsequent satisfactory
- thy ineffable
- comprehensive arab-israeli
- unanimous and serene
- french brokered
- necessary but disgraceful
- unsafe and sinful
- temporary and comparative
- utter, satisfying
- imperfect and negative
- profound international
- obscure, vast
- definite and universal
- general honorable
- respectable universal
- inviolable religious
- other, higher and divine
- unbroken blissful
- domestic and mental
- perfect, breathless
- grave--eternal
- general golden
- expressive, aggressive
- peace--only infinite
- placid sunny
- general and complete
- speedy and honorable
- deep and drowsy
- short and hollow
- safe and honorable
- endless joyful
- deep and ineffable
- solid and honorable
- quick and stable
- honorable and permanent
- universally obvious
- utter and perfect
- nether, eternal
- permanent worldwide
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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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