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 perspective
Below is a list of describing words for perspective. 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 perspective:
- linear and aerial
- intermediate and unique
- sharp and dear
- blindly human
- metahistorical
- larger metahistorical
- hopefully larger
- wonderfully uncluttered
- jaded, materialistic
- tragic, unerring
- bizarre and grand
- rather terminal
- proper and completely absurd
- unique, contorted
- deceivingly low
- new, terrifying
- vivid planetary
- analytical political
- smooth and breathtaking
- low, sidelong
- former, all-too-familiar
- aerial and linear
- angular and parallel
- oblique or angular
- deep, torch-lit
- marvelously balanced
- eerie, dizzying
- aeronautical or astronautical
- overbearing feminist
- slower and yet greater
- inadequate or alien
- proper, unimportant
- steep, unusual
- genuinely unique
- own, twenty-first-century
- real, prosaic
- global and historical
- linear and a�rial
- linear and atmospheric
- long, smudged
- remarkably mature
- extraordinarily long-term
- clearer, closer
- negative, one-sided
- dark dizzy
- broad interminable
- divinely unbounded
- balanced, mature
- typically asian
- cold-blooded and selfish
- totally cold-blooded
- totally cold-blooded and selfish
- genuinely wholesome
- abstract, sociological
- broad evolutionary
- somewhat truer
- hazy and somber
- solemn and celestial
- erroneous geographical
- wide phonetic
- never-ending fugitive
- half-way true
- endlessly charming
- absurd linear
- better historic
- vivid aerial
- perfect critical
- everlasting grand
- relative humorous
- correct cosmological
- desirable literary
- angular and oblique
- parallel or horizontal
- parallel or angular
- angular or parallel
- spiritually true
- abrupt and fantastic
- wrong musical
- suggestive and shadowy
- dazzling and delightful
- lineal and a�rial
- lineal and aerial
- social or indoor
- primitive two-dimensional
- mathematical or linear
- intricate and almost perplexing
- almost perplexing
- charming arboreal
- partial historical
- adorable great
- photo-aerial
- distinct and yet mellow
- extraordinary inverted
- unbroken and almost endless
- violent and untrue
- linear and aërial
- wholly illusive
- shabby, spotty
- splendid psychological
- true multicultural
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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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