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 realization
Below is a list of describing words for realization. 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 realization:
- sudden and electrifying
- correct and self-consistent
- anatomically correct and self-consistent
- slow, undeniable
- conscious, vital
- same, stark
- sudden and stark
- abrupt, fuller
- hard, dismaying
- singular interior
- perfect atmospheric
- coherent but irrational
- indolent and rather annoying
- trial sudden
- startling and troubling
- fresh and intimate
- preliminary and partial
- sweet and momentous
- dizzy, instantaneous
- continuous imaginative
- nation-wide, deep-seated
- sudden and completely unexpected
- slow, inescapable
- sudden, heartfelt
- final, sure
- potent and dramatic
- horrid and ultimate
- dim, horrifying
- unhurried, penetrating
- spirited and comic
- single-minded and intelligent
- ineffably sad but quiet
- suitable youthful
- vivid and momentary
- spontaneous and joyful
- intelligently localized
- ethical, self-conscious
- complexly emotional and intellectual
- individual, complete
- humorous, middle-aged
- proportioned and harmonious
- benignant and sure
- bloodless and benevolent
- sudden degrading
- full and proud
- amazing, shameful
- evident and quick
- effective and true
- feeble and hazy
- practical and startling
- full terrible
- dim but inadequate
- exquisitely dear
- full, maddening
- due and precise
- partial subsequent
- genuine, free
- apparent feasible
- constant, anguished
- fresh and quite personal
- exclusive, concrete
- common and progressive
- hoped-for speedy
- finite and temporary
- expensive and full
- consciously ironic
- sufferers--final
- bleak, despairing
- sudden and frightening
- abruptly full
- fairly hideous
- speedy and practical
- full and patriotic
- terrible and frightening
- gentle, unspoken
- present mature
- partially correct
- realistic little
- disturbingly distasteful
- sudden, grateful
- anguished small
- mere inexpressible
- agonizing, intolerable
- stark and dreadful
- abrupt, unsettling
- enormous, sickening
- amazing and totally unexpected
- sudden and unacceptable
- full, stunning
- vague hazy
- completely shocking
- complete, devastating
- abrupt and unhappy
- slightly terrifying
- abrupt and slightly terrifying
- quick and dismaying
- sudden tactical
- certain bittersweet
- full subtextual
- definitive, horrible
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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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