Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
Click words for definitions.
Words to Describe pulse
Below is a list of describing words for pulse. 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 pulse:
- quick and feeble
- faint, cryptical
- rapid, feeble
- quick weak
- weak and rapid
- persistent slow
- strongest poetic
- dark arterial
- faint strong
- slight kinetic
- somehow warm
- rapid and feeble
- frequent and feeble
- loud intrusive
- stark, disruptive
- faint shallow
- obsolete atmospheric
- frantic, erratic
- already feverish
- virile, tumultuous
- weak, intermittent
- full, tense
- weak and quick
- tremendously weak
- strong femoral
- flat, fatal
- forever inhuman
- strong, eccentric
- slow unpredictable
- vast and indivisible
- faint but penetrating
- slow weak
- frequent, wiry
- naturally full and slow
- irregular but not rapid
- low oppressive
- correct and well-regulated
- quick or full
- exceedingly quick and full
- damned magnetic
- rapid, weak
- posterial tibial
- intense, high-definition
- ongoing rhythmic
- exact rhythmic
- deep, percussive
- intense sonic
- steady, agonizing
- big abdominal
- dorninal
- dangerously steady
- subtle, incredible
- quick sonic
- quicker, stronger
- low, muscular
- now quick and small
- feverish or unequal
- weak languid
- hard feverish
- fainter or weaker
- quick and weak
- quick and very feeble
- full, frequent and rapid
- frequent and weak
- strange pleasurable
- regular, vibrant
- fevered political
- feeble radial
- rather slow and small
- feebly intermittent
- generally regular
- sometimes intermittent
- quick and sometimes intermittent
- extremely quick and frequent
- softer quick
- temporary quick
- stronger and slower
- corresponding and sympathetic
- imperceptible, large or small
- normal or physiological
- low unequal
- amazingly strong and steady
- small and unsteady
- loud feverish
- persistent rapid
- congenital slow
- feeble, capricious
- faint but rapid
- weak quick
- weak and hard
- hard and full
- otherwise perturbed
- decidedly abrupt
- extremely rapid and irregular
- tense and frequent
- excessively frequent and feeble
- feeble and quick
- weak frequent
- feeble quick
- sometimes slow and feeble
Popular Searches
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.
Please note that Describing Words uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. To learn more, see the privacy policy.
