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 protestant
Below is a list of describing words for protestant. 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 protestant:
- mennonite and other
- unread, unsophisticated
- unrepentant ephemeral
- grim disapproving
- narrowest and most fanatical
- enlightened and temperate
- blue hearty
- ultra and even furious
- half-witted french
- grave french
- thorough and confident
- seventy-seven french
- stubborn aboriginal
- old, virile and extinct
- modern and milder
- equally narrow and irrational
- rabid irish
- true resolute
- thin, bigoted
- recent and reluctant
- young and comely irish
- pious zealous
- fierce, french and german
- haughty bourgeois
- would-be evangelical
- pure, intrepid
- poor insolent
- swiss evangelical
- prominent and least
- sizable and militant
- hospitable plain
- evangelical, mainline
- fervent but misguided
- regal, nonchurchgoing
- ardent irish
- passionate and aggressive
- loyal but humane
- little, free
- typical evangelical
- ardent and consistent
- righteous, intrepid
- virile and extinct
- commonplace and squalid
- sensible or honest
- passive peaceable
- free, aggressive
- diligent, reliable
- staunch and avowed
- anti-clerical or extreme
- pious and tolerant
- sundry fanatical
- spittal and other
- wealthy and serious
- intelligent and ardent
- ardent and able
- states-general and other
- present seventy-two
- hostile and bigoted
- turbulent and capricious
- popular and zealous
- kindred british
- rational, consistent
- strong and self-supporting
- religious and reflective
- pious evangelical
- acute and logical
- real dickensian
- german evangelical
- staunch political
- rich and zealous
- narrow and irrational
- conscientious and uncompromising
- dense and civilized
- militant irish
- sure, other
- official and academic
- exclusive and aristocratic
- cathedral, several
- various dissenting
- present amiable
- old, orthodox
- royal military
- boisterous irish
- good devout
- various orthodox
- able and moderate
- staunch and unflinching
- consistent and steady
- single avowed
- numerous respectable
- simple severe
- monstrous good
- powerful, intelligent
- brave french
- grand german
- mennonite
- young native-born
- strong swiss
- mild and pious
- good virtuous
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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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