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 physician
Below is a list of describing words for physician. 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 physician:
- altruistic and idealistic
- altogether altruistic and idealistic
- altogether altruistic
- observant and philosophical
- inexpert and ignorant
- extremely hardworking
- dark-skinned jamaican
- young and unsure
- gentlemanly irish
- urbane and able
- bad, fair
- good discerning
- highly skilled and talented
- already chief
- unexpectedly competent
- obedient royal
- morally robust
- benevolent, eccentric
- shrewd medieval
- young, norwegian
- famous and most worthy
- skilful metropolitan
- rubicund, unimaginative
- humane and attentive
- greatest and most skillful
- sterk—royal
- prosperous and well-regarded
- eminent chinese-american
- charitable, selfless
- eminent psychiatric
- modest and wise
- skilful, humane
- boldly experimental
- prosperous and boldly experimental
- former sober
- famous and strictly orthodox
- practical and rather prosaic
- professional unpaid
- evidently exasperated
- wise and even stern
- skilled and renowned
- venerable and successful
- gray-haired spanish
- municipal and hospital
- thoroughly observant
- skilful, thoughtful
- conscientious, scientific
- clever, buoyant
- shrewd and crabbed
- intelligent, skilful
- mysterious, infallible
- agreeable classical
- first-class, reputable
- new and sanguine
- indefatigable and daring
- ancient and very famous
- well-educated and honest
- regular institutional
- nearest up-to-date
- oldest and principal
- occasional unscrupulous
- eminent cuban
- wholly sombre
- philanthropic female
- intelligent danish
- old and capable
- thoroly competent
- successful and beloved
- disinterested spiritual
- lazy provincial
- skillful, thoughtful
- public and politic
- famous anglo-jewish
- modest but clever
- cynical and very eccentric
- poor, conscientious
- capable syrian
- justly reputable
- sure and only legitimate
- self-reliant, active
- severe and rough
- famous and skilful
- benevolent and successful
- best-known local
- german-speaking japanese
- literary philosophic
- cool and analytical
- great and skilled
- worthy sensible
- brave and scientific
- able clinical
- sceptical and practical
- aforementioned ocular
- dear and inglorious
- diminutive chinese
- efficient and honorable
- itinerant military
- wise and hardy
- rumpled rural
- pink-cheeked, crazed
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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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