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 press
Below is a list of describing words for press. 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 press:
- whole periodical
- polluted and shameless
- western daily
- vigilant and critical
- diurnal and periodical
- wearisome and platitudinous
- soft and individual
- modern rotary
- newborn and still timid
- jewish periodical
- curious and shameless
- reversible perpetual
- scented oaken
- bourgeois and reactionary
- enlightened daily
- lithographic quick
- independent metropolitan
- entire independent
- overwhelming capitalist
- minor periodical
- tranquil captive
- modern periodical
- unanimous alaskan
- bourgeois german
- straight bourgeois
- well-intentioned but maladroit
- entire republican
- interested but vigilant
- constant icy
- local or even national
- enlightened free
- hostile and malicious
- serviceable metal
- chicago-based continental
- post-conviction
- fleeting, familiar
- national nor local
- scholastic and scholastic
- rough, insistent
- currently overwhelming
- one-owner local
- professional small
- lamentably cheap
- anti-turkish, french and british
- tory-liberal
- excessively enterprising
- indefatigable and excessively enterprising
- venal and irresponsible
- free, venal and irresponsible
- strong and national
- musical periodical
- spirited local
- zealous, merciless
- honestly enthusiastic
- lesser and provincial
- provincial, british
- british metropolitan
- clamorous liberal
- periodical critical
- grossly one-sided and unfair
- colonial and even british
- unbridled native
- periodical jewish
- mendacious and insolent
- new and wonder-working
- entire provincial
- noisy and unscrupulous
- despicable radical
- familiar hydrostatic
- common hydrostatic
- undoubtedly loyal
- hostile or unsympathetic
- sceptical or orthodox
- periodical skeptical
- contemptible free
- colder metal
- various illiberal
- ministerial and radical
- british anti-semitic
- democratic partisan
- slow-moving flat-bed
- ordinary typographic
- solid periodical
- ready partisan
- particularly numerous and fine
- again refreshed
- religious societies--periodical
- still acceptable and unrivaled
- secular and infidel
- entire sentimental
- dim sweet-smelling
- selfishly envious
- honest, independent and courageous
- german and neutral
- rabid and revolutionary
- unscrupulous and irresponsible
- totally unscrupulous and irresponsible
- moderate socialist
- inventive canadian
- cheap and profligate
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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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