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 provision
Below is a list of describing words for provision. 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 provision:
- proper and liberal
- more particular and efficient
- particular and efficient
- negative and preventive
- steady and prodigal
- proper or satisfactory
- ample and equal
- wise but unwritten
- slightest constitutional
- ample and permanent
- suitable constitutional
- certain and adequate
- lesser and necessary
- kindly parental
- generous and unusual
- wise and very extraordinary
- wise legal
- ostensibly prudent
- eventual plain
- liberal and permanent
- special and generous
- therewith vast
- odd, business-like
- perfect and substantial
- additional and exceptional
- admirable and various
- fair and harmless
- perfectly fair and harmless
- ample and highly complex
- private fresh
- larger, such
- sufficient educational
- further legislative
- handsome dental
- proper or adequate
- liberal and proper
- simple but very wonderful
- remarkable exceptional
- healthy and careful
- common constitutional
- commensurate and certain
- similar and reciprocal
- imperative constitutional
- intelligent preventive
- never-to-be-forgotten funeral
- due present
- proposal suitable
- general voluntary
- abundant and reasonable
- stronger governmental
- unnecessary and oppressive
- important and humane
- sufficient and certain
- valuable and liberal
- effectual and infallible
- thin, ample
- humane and careful
- decent and certain
- general and adequate
- annual and adequate
- nearly comparable
- ample, unearned
- absurd and unaccountable
- adequate and healthful
- sufficient old-age
- adequate old-age
- excessively parsimonious
- inadequate, uncertain
- equitable public
- far liberal
- remarkable and very exceptional
- special and very thorough
- adequate intellectual
- specially paternal
- curious and humane
- suitable pecuniary
- generous federal
- effectual and adequate
- limited rustical
- generously free
- liberal, ladylike
- judicious legal
- indigent, free
- effectively cohesive
- impressive and worthy
- specific or positive
- indeed ideal
- nonsense--special
- wise and ample
- adequate and mysterious
- informal and unrecognized
- usually informal and unrecognized
- scanty, bare
- curious and abundant
- judicious and plentiful
- reasonable sinking-fund
- unusually democratic
- retaliatory or reciprocal
- liberal monetary
- carefully definite
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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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