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 perfection
Below is a list of describing words for perfection. 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 perfection:
- sheer, crystalline
- inhuman exotic
- flawless artificial
- peculiar neat
- absolute self-sufficient
- serenely unconscious
- present sterile
- such porochial
- ancient, serene
- morally practical
- sleek, martial
- usual milky
- utter visual
- unearthly masculine
- sure and flawless
- certain unattainable
- highest momentary
- almost inattentive
- graceful and abundant
- exact grammatical
- flawless, snow-white
- exquisite, inhuman
- dazzling sartorial
- uncanny geometric
- snug and uncompromising
- usual well-tailored
- translucent, unblemished
- healthful and spontaneous
- perpetual and spotless
- abstract and unlimited
- formal, eighteenth-century
- latest unequalled
- much unattainable
- abstract architectural
- accidental or intermediate
- integral or final
- full or final
- intermediate, accidental
- distinctively substantial
- infinite and superhuman
- unconscious, triumphant
- warm glossy
- ideal and immortal
- technical and many-sided
- almost neat
- dainty and simple
- utterly dependable
- sheer geometrical
- precious subtle
- safe, lifeless
- brief, glassy
- machinelike rhythmic
- blonde, insatiable
- sharp, classical
- such humbling
- pure, masculine
- mute, incomprehensible
- rapt, unwitting
- empty fractal
- absolute sartorial
- lean, ideal
- careful limpid
- blue featureless
- icy human
- exquisite and complete
- martial, juvenal
- null, dead
- shop-real
- ready-to-wear shop-real
- exquisite and classic
- moral and infinite
- appropriate and special
- relative moral
- ruthless inevitable
- immutable, immovable
- ideal and greater
- ultimate highest
- arrogant and expensive
- fragrant and rainbow-hued
- poignant, reticent
- dry and geometrical
- somewhat dry and geometrical
- clear and divine
- exquisite and jealous
- limited but flawless
- absolute poetical
- effortless inevitable
- wonderful ornate
- utmost original
- proud and effortless
- ideal wondrous
- such sinless
- consequent relative
- pink and priceless
- functional and constructive
- dainty insolent
- literary, theological or moral
- finite and mechanical
- abstract, essential
- limited but absolute
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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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