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 politicians
Below is a list of describing words for politicians. 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 politicians:
- sharpest and most unscrupulous
- hysterical extremist
- shrewd, conciliatory
- alone dirty
- old-time male
- shrewd jovial
- discontented diplomatic
- astute, cool
- italian would-be
- professional and consummate
- seemingly incompetent
- radical and foolish
- active liberal
- sufficiently wild and weak
- mysterious but infallible
- especially uneducated and superstitious
- patriotic, constitutional
- complex and gullible
- venal, unscrupulous
- own leftist
- far-sighted and well-informed
- merely chimerical
- unscrupulous, masterful
- selfish and shortsighted
- cold and astute
- doubtless practical
- would-be omniscient
- principally former
- confident, hard-edged
- consequently japanese
- cunning, pompous
- fewer, intriguing
- shrewd and deceitful
- selfish and utterly unscrupulous
- supremely ruthless
- reputable professional
- realistic and pragmatic
- aspiring radical
- aforesaid ambitious
- clever and selfish
- unscrupulous and adroit
- greedy and angry
- busy and versatile
- ambitious and self-seeking
- wise, liberal
- reactionary agrarian
- eloquent and spectacular
- exclusively professional
- profound or enlightened
- unscrupulous, self-interested
- restless and malignant
- inept and corrupt
- quickwitted, restless and malignant
- pervasive and local
- arrogant and wayward
- false, arrogant and wayward
- wise or vigorous
- conspicuous radical
- theatrical would-be
- phenomenally fat
- impracticable, obsolete
- inexperienced nor unwise
- artful and shrewd
- official or corrupt
- vulgar and mechanical
- active democratic
- consistent and happy
- average capitalist
- prudent, political
- dour middle-aged
- smilingly evasive
- rabidly left-wing
- less ranking
- antisena-torial
- senior pro-independence
- radical antisena-torial
- guests�mostly powerful
- incorruptible young
- top japanese
- tactful and trustworthy
- sexually open-minded
- keen progressive
- eventually influential
- anemic third-rate
- consistently unpopular
- crafty, cynical
- unhumanly stiff
- fatuous liberal
- attentive and unhumanly stiff
- ruthless and self-serving
- noisy but shallow
- necessary, hard
- venal and self-seeking
- feisty small-town
- active radical
- crooked self-serving
- professional and daring
- consummate and wholly corrupt
- skillful low-grade
- long-time democratic
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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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