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 peril
Below is a list of describing words for peril. 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 peril:
- unknown and constant
- shocking final
- such imminent
- great and possible
- always mysterious and exotic
- momently imminent
- wrong or imminent
- manifest and imminent
- measurable and open
- oddest and most alarming
- open and discernible
- seeming and indeed actual
- trial and common
- intransigent black
- foul, unknown
- clear municipal
- sudden and wholly unfamiliar
- inherent and imminent
- grand impending
- needless or excessive
- unspeakable and infinite
- desperate and inevitable
- certain and impending
- veritable and most fearful
- past and imaginary
- welcome hottest
- awful and impending
- sudden and imminent
- strong and imminent
- genuinely mortal
- sometimes impending
- appalling resultant
- inevitable and most fatal
- ominous national
- evil and spiritual
- haunting and constant
- portentous, invisible
- unexpected singular
- certain and formidable
- fearfully imminent
- opposite and unequal
- true, imminent
- deadly particular
- imminent spiritual
- certain or very probable
- imminent and apparent
- now great and imminent
- fresh and graver
- new and most active
- great and actual
- immense external
- imminent and frightful
- awful, immeasurable
- exciting but always present
- immediate and fearful
- possible and very great
- imminent and awkward
- imminent and awful
- imminent personal
- imminent
- strange and imminent
- secret and premeditated
- serious and startling
- grave and imminent
- huge and pitiless
- immediate and imminent
- more imminent
- own gravest
- red-and-yellow bloody
- other and possibly worse
- imminent, uncanny
- merely lethal
- dire, life-threatening
- decidedly imminent
- same imminent
- persistent haunting
- actual and imminent
- full and dreadful
- recent mortal
- imminent and overpowering
- unexpected and extreme
- new and imminent
- vast, indefinable
- deadly industrial
- new and truly hideous
- late, actual
- new and truly appalling
- frightfully imminent
- visible and imminent
- distinct and imminent
- distinct and ever-present
- mortal more
- often grievous
- distant or contingent
- present and dreadful
- imminent and appalling
- undefined and yet colossal
- own imminent
- indeed actual
- frightful and ever-increasing
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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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