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 qualifications
Below is a list of describing words for qualifications. 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 qualifications:
- permanent or insurmountable
- exterior and ornamental
- wise but moderate
- major, all-important
- basic academic
- physical, intellectual and political
- moral, physical and political
- certain teohnical
- teohnical
- endless and troublesome
- vague and shifty
- linguistic educational
- anatomical and sexual
- small tax-paying
- acceptable academic
- slight tax-paying
- indeed exceptional
- slight and exceptional
- frequently higher
- residential or occupational
- forward inept
- unattainable educational
- greater ancestral
- specious and showy
- feudal and noble
- grand sacerdotal
- any--special
- indispensable physical
- requisite and desirable
- religious and patrician
- worth nor educational
- vague and rather obscure
- financial or educational
- major and essential
- agrarian or commercial
- henceforth professional
- higher essential
- ironical and descriptive
- above-mentioned various
- statutory three-mile
- numerous and higher
- next indispensable
- offertorial
- peculiarly legitimate
- sacrificial and offertorial
- weak jocose
- various and essential
- worthless and superficial
- undoubtedly many
- undoubtedly many and great
- emotional or temperamental
- particular and highly specialized
- unshackled, --essential
- proper attainable
- extraordinary ministerial
- special fortuitous
- complex electoral
- portal, desirable
- intellectual, literary and biblical
- logical and formal
- pecuniary and mental
- exemptions--municipal
- exemptions--municipal and parliamentary
- distinct or special
- common-law and statutory
- many and particular
- precious and final
- officially requisite
- other oratorical
- purely medical and scientific
- graceful but dangerous
- such adverbial
- amiable national
- excellent and necessary
- single, unique
- higher or different
- solitary, journalistic
- minimum academic
- silent crucial
- civil and hospitable
- smaller immediate
- linguistic and educational
- odd superfluous
- clear-cut legal
- outstanding moral
- normal and almost obligatory
- honest educational
- distinctive and definitive
- fair educational
- requisite literary
- necessary and sole
- intellectual, emotional and volitional
- official and external
- solid and methodical
- vague and ineffective
- properly moral
- greater all-around
- various restrictive
- chief and indispensible
- physical or temporal
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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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