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 presentation
Below is a list of describing words for presentation. 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 presentation:
- adequate but compact
- direct and appealing
- continual and agreeable
- slyly concise and effective
- slyly concise
- convincing and comprehensive
- forceful and common-sense
- miscellaneous and ludicrous
- former, ancient
- effective visual
- worst melodramatic
- lucidly explicable
- vividly logical
- graphic or manual
- complete factual
- intense theatrical
- unadjusted optical
- simian, melodramatic
- overt symbolic
- credible scenic
- brilliant, defiant
- interesting fictional
- obscure dramatic
- audacious and convincing
- energetic but wise
- motionless visual
- co-ordinated visual
- real pantomimic
- complete naturalistic
- suitable or proper
- elaborately correct
- logical and painstaking
- cool and very clear
- concise and effective
- effective and endearing
- constant and partisan
- initial tactical
- cool, robotic
- mere readable
- composite and proportionate
- historical and complete
- resolutely cool and impartial
- resolutely cool
- absolutely natural and necessary
- faithful and practical
- dramatic, impressive
- extremely exhaustive
- altogether fair and satisfactory
- inadequate and incoherent
- unimpassioned, impartial
- bland and tidy
- actual and authoritative
- needlessly dreadful
- straightforward, self-respecting
- cunning and pleasing
- unanticipated and unpleasant
- thorough painstaking
- direct and sensorial
- temperate and nonpartisan
- common and desirable
- humorous, ironical
- sane, safe and logical
- rigidly truthful and candid
- pleasant or cheerful
- faithful and adequate
- appropriate and proud
- final and only full
- shorter but fully intelligible
- sensible, unambiguous
- correspondingly unheroic
- compact and thorough
- entirely acceptable and appropriate
- studiously calm and impersonal
- clear, logical and impartial
- rough, suggestive
- thoroughgoing, logical
- strong, philosophical
- noteworthy oral
- rough, dramatic
- natural, anterior
- sterno-abdominal
- definite fugal
- long rhapsodic
- unexpected and impolitic
- peculiar ludicrous
- wholly probable
- powerful and yet temperate
- absolute and balanced
- sometimes prospective
- skilful oral
- exceedingly able and bitter
- least, attractive
- truthful and life-like
- unquestionably artistic
- vigorous but repulsive
- unfortunate and confusing
- poetical or symbolical
- fair and sufficiently full
- professedly comprehensive
- sane and fair
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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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