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 prophecy
Below is a list of describing words for prophecy. 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 prophecy:
- mute and ominous
- self-fulfilling
- irrational, mystical and supernatural
- comedic, sci-fi
- immanent obvious
- safe catch-all
- such representational
- supposedly profane
- epigrammatic and momentous
- clear and amazing
- indubitably clear and amazing
- fatal, dire
- last messianic
- fundamental messianic
- proverbial safe
- obscure messianic
- separate intangible
- inspiring messianic
- indisputable, unhappy
- old optimistic
- damned and cruel
- specific, verifiable
- bizarre self-fulfilling
- unflinchingly truthful
- mournful, unconscious
- eternal, hopeful
- dim and unconscious
- bold and very hazardous
- purely messianic
- forth doleful
- lightest adverse
- memorable and true
- appalling final
- cognate egyptian
- fine covert
- evident and most remarkable
- impudent and infamous
- mysterious and ever-present
- remarkable symbolic
- great or wonderful
- ancient messianic
- earlier scriptural
- singularly vivid and dramatic
- handsome, hopeful
- personal messianic
- natural and credible
- brilliantly accurate
- remarkably far-reaching
- good and rational
- long and very ominous
- mystical and supernatural
- gigantic self-fulfilling
- sick and sudden
- noble and most notable
- old, ambiguous
- old and grave
- old self-fulfilling
- creepily formal
- sad, self-fulfilling
- newfound ancient
- grand, celestial
- own self-fulfilling
- terrifying bloodstained
- sadly self-fulfilling
- famous and most influential
- dark etruscan
- further typical
- indubitably clear
- twice true
- clear, articulate
- dim and obscure
- suspicious public
- single messianic
- vivid figurative
- such redemptive
- mere anonymous
- scandalous, malicious
- distinct messianic
- feverish and desperate
- remarkable random
- dim unwritten
- glorious messianic
- coarse and sensual
- biblical and secular
- harsh or bitter
- whole unspoken
- vague symbolic
- however futile
- startling literary
- remarkable and very beautiful
- wonderful and true
- dim and fearful
- mysterious and mythic
- strong eschatological
- safe and indefinite
- forth terrific
- infinite and immutable
- olden jewish
- old tahitian
- singularly incorrect
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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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