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 profession
Below is a list of describing words for profession. 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 profession:
- unusually no-nonsense
- post-medical
- ancient and lucrative
- indeed lucrative
- respectable and indeed lucrative
- doubtful and undefined
- honorable legal
- obsolete and sometimes amusing
- salutary and lucrative
- traditionally studious
- unofficial clerical
- galactic legal
- pointless and austere
- old but inglorious
- singular teutonic
- convenient and good-humored
- difficult and glorious
- old but most disreputable
- studious and enthusiastic
- physically hazardous
- noble and self-effacing
- steadfast public
- respectable well-paid
- complete and unalterable
- peculiarly dependent
- easy-going evangelical
- powerless, uninfluential
- easy, uninfluential
- savagely mercenary
- unanimous and intrepid
- self-indulgent, easy-going
- greater and extraordinary
- civil and even clerical
- present idle
- present culinary
- ancient and antiquated
- second oldest
- old and most honorable
- satisfying or rewarding
- truly oldest
- international and artistic
- humane medical
- entire unique
- oldest damn
- combative legal
- highly seasonal
- painlessly profitable
- great parasitical
- alluring, fascinating
- old laudable
- able and illiberal
- genteel and artistic
- illustrious and intrepid
- notoriously infidel
- morally nobler
- honorable and scientific
- exciting and ungrateful
- hazardous and nerve-racking
- rather disreputable but picturesque
- explicit and individual
- many, distasteful
- hazardously speculative
- last-named charitable
- vehement and extraordinary
- lawful and patriotic
- former aquatic
- literate and liberal
- good, lucrative
- outdoor and out-of-town
- busy and almost breathless
- superstitious and pessimistic
- genteel easy
- peaceable and external
- moreover religious
- world-wide money-making
- now unpopular
- sure and worthy
- public and good
- essentially homeless
- honest, well-paying
- frank religious
- consistent and false
- recent and irregular
- whole actuarial
- secret, private and public
- religious, thy
- worth-while or lucrative
- always disagreeable and distasteful
- exceedingly pleasant and lucrative
- new but honest
- necessary, useful and elegant
- practical and regular
- worthy, time-honored
- exacting, skilled
- british architectural
- gallant and solemn
- productive but precarious
- equally sincere and insincere
- officious religious
- great and pre-eminently useful
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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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