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 prosperity
Below is a list of describing words for prosperity. 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 prosperity:
- almost repugnant
- apparent astonishing
- unwontedly honest
- temporary apparent
- rapid and insolent
- low-grade and law-abiding
- speedy, dazzling
- monotonously lyrical
- literally unprecedented
- unprecedented and rewarding
- jewish millennial
- issued--general
- meanwhile material
- unimaginative commercial
- conspirators--industrial
- florid or very unwholesome
- broad commonplace
- certain possessive
- whatsoever present
- your political
- meal and sudden
- commerce--material
- apparent serene
- unhealthy seeming
- outward calm and material
- unprecedented and joyful
- outward national
- back social
- namely material
- agricultural and national
- plainest national
- momentary material
- present, promising
- unequalled pecuniary
- swollen material
- unanticipated material
- mere godless
- unprecedented material
- extraordinary material
- unparalleled general
- also social and industrial
- wonderful actual
- excessive and unbroken
- bright progressive
- marvelous national
- alien and magnificent
- family uninterrupted
- former comparative
- commercial and individual
- seemingly cloudless
- unusual material
- spiritual and essential
- brief colonial
- opulent fevered
- almost opulent
- moderate, unclouded
- flush and affluent
- unbroken temporal
- also external and internal
- _octroi_--general
- sudden and unstable
- gradual and stable
- general and reasonably stable
- temporarily abnormal
- result--individual and general
- result--individual
- rapid and ill-founded
- discreetly sudden
- seemingly joyous and abundant
- extraordinary and unbroken
- general and abundant
- commercial, material
- stout, inflated
- intellectual or financial
- social, intellectual or financial
- sudden and seeming
- abiding rural
- extraordinary comparative
- gradual and solid
- peaceable bourgeois
- clear and cultured
- plain, excessive
- broader rural
- false and bloated
- public material
- universal and extraordinary
- unpicturesque commercial
- refined but warm
- physical or pecuniary
- material, world-wide
- continual perfect
- high, individual and national
- carelessly slighted
- moral, educational and religious
- general seeming
- short, fallacious
- immediate and dazzling
- steady but unheroic
- quick industrial
- spiritual and civilized
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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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