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 preacher
Below is a list of describing words for preacher. 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 preacher:
- itinerant fundamentalist
- populist charismatic
- itinerant and rousing
- fast-talking revival
- well-dressed conservative
- venerable surrogate
- fiery itinerant
- eloquent revival
- foremost itinerant
- itinerant open-air
- certain prosy
- divine and once popular
- florid and seraphical
- epileptic little
- pious, painful
- literate, mystical
- terse and racy
- outspoken gigantic
- feeblest and worst
- prosperous evangelical
- declamatory and vociferous
- silly humble
- judicious dutch
- enlightened and alluring
- eloquent local
- powerful evangelical
- zealous, humble
- eloquent, artless
- spotless, noble
- extremely witty
- crazed human
- eminent puritanical
- flat-out awesome
- old-fashioned fundamentalist
- tall dyspeptic
- offensively shrill
- eloquent congregational
- vivid and magnetic
- interesting plain
- vulgar half-educated
- elder and local
- evangelical and controversial
- popular but eccentric
- exceedingly tedious and long
- perhaps bombastic
- young and perhaps bombastic
- talented, enterprising
- powerful and intensely spiritual
- solemn, joyless
- famous itinerant
- gaunt, restless
- wonderfully pious and good
- wonderfully pious
- good-natured rotund
- great itinerant
- historic colored
- prosaic and logical
- thoroughly prosaic and logical
- popular sensational
- eloquent or rather popular
- excellent but not exciting
- active and acceptable
- solitary and erratic
- itinerant political
- fanatical and apparently half-witted
- remarkable revival
- popular and intriguing
- self-confident popular
- monthly evangelical
- laborious, conscientious
- frequent and zealous
- unenlightened orthodox
- white itinerant
- once acceptable
- fervently sincere
- eloquent blind
- forceful and acceptable
- slim consumptive
- vigorous and captivating
- tireless and heavy
- correct, able
- worthy and reverent
- pathetic and zealous
- faithful, diligent and painful
- fervent and effective
- fluent popular
- faithful and gifted
- worthy but somewhat dry
- eloquent, convincing
- effective and fashionable
- pious itinerant
- fashionable evangelical
- german dissenting
- eminently able and effective
- enlightened and not fanatical
- useful and zealous
- eloquent african
- eloquent, blind
- sadly prosy
- orthodox but sadly prosy
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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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