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 pilot
Below is a list of describing words for pilot. 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 pilot:
- younger chief
- stubbornly unconscious
- delicate automatic
- smoothly competent
- scientific problem-the
- daring hot
- desperate alien
- faceless, unknown
- finest manual
- high-speed automatic
- social automatic
- seductive and frequently illusory
- frequently illusory
- boldest financial
- resolute new
- ruthless and versatile
- lazy, self-assured
- mandatory human
- best atmospheric
- computerized automatic
- luckiest damn
- ugly chief
- original hour-long
- careful, fussy
- fully expendable
- many or most routine
- hottest rogue
- goddam chief
- drunken, superstitious
- substantial clever
- skilful and watchful
- sick and stale
- enterprising extra
- swarthy cuban
- bearded iranian
- safe and ever-present
- equally clever and daring
- wary and skilful
- observant but calm
- honest and successful
- english-speaking military
- colored, blinking
- small hairless
- best long-haul
- black-clad female
- diligent and perfect
- mechanical japanese
- relatively effective
- brilliant chief
- radar-controlled automatic
- famed australian
- damnably insufficient
- damn real
- almost baby-faced
- unqualified would-be
- favorite trans-global
- same sweaty
- honest civilian
- eager soviet
- malicious soviet
- willing but slightly nervous
- lly earthbound
- thological
- slight, tawny
- newly clumsy
- tattered galactic
- safe, careful
- totally state-of-the-art
- new and virtually unknown
- self-confessed best
- nervous civilian
- best-known imperial
- balding, mustached
- new dark-haired
- damn natural
- helmeted military
- dour senior
- straight-out aggressive
- full-time senior
- conversational automatic
- low, no-nonsense
- autocratic and xenophobic
- former deep-sea
- unlicensed underage
- competent aerial
- uniquely competent
- unspectacular but skilled
- true and alert
- skilful and talented
- gray and stern
- notable australian
- auspicious little
- humble canadian
- nearly all-white
- careful, active
- damn reckless
- admiral and chief
- particularly wide-awake
- skilled and careful
- hottest damn
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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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