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 proportion
Below is a list of describing words for proportion. 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 proportion:
- precisely legal
- unknown but presumably large
- wild, numerical
- female, numerical
- larger and far nobler
- frighteningly low
- rapid and extravagant
- inexplicable and unnatural
- small and fortunate
- stunningly infinitesimal
- worth and due
- fascinating, frightening
- true oval
- due reciprocal
- indifferent and measurable
- rich and symmetrical
- continuous geometrical
- immense and miserable
- former fair
- vastly undue
- harmonious or impressive
- correspondingly inverse
- deceitfully slight
- exact reciprocal
- same penurious
- just reciprocal
- much, larger
- correct, relative
- great undue
- inverse or direct
- fair relative
- best and most manageable
- exact inverse
- direct arithmetical
- sublime or indivisible
- functionally insignificant
- small and functionally insignificant
- considerably larger and richer
- fair but not undue
- large and unfair
- corresponding definite
- equal or still higher
- double and simple
- immensely smaller
- moderate and fitting
- better, exact
- unreasonable and disastrous
- more cubical
- due and helpful
- old compound
- closest practicable
- greater and equal
- probable vast
- adequate numerical
- unusually moderate
- ever-increasing numerical
- expedient or constructive
- truer relative
- fairly appreciable
- numerical normal
- low and wholly unregulated
- equal and inefficient
- original or most perfect
- notably higher
- direct and multiple
- nearly arithmetical
- ascertainable normal
- modern enormous
- less, equal
- historical and necessary
- reciprocal and necessary
- greatest tolerable
- small but nearly constant
- harmonic numerical
- other, constant
- unknown but not inconsiderable
- whole, musical
- physical and esthetic
- same longeval
- unreasonably high
- huge nether
- due economic
- direct geometrical
- divine and therefore perfect
- insignificant and useless
- fair and desirable
- inverse
- same arithmetical
- true and calm
- same inverse
- physical and aesthetic
- direct inverse
- indefinite minor
- somewhat mammoth
- offensively high
- absolute amazing
- last arithmetical
- statistically higher
- definite and quite large
- tediously high
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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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