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 reason
Below is a list of describing words for reason. 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 reason:
- noble and most sovereign
- temporary, happier
- simpler and equally valid
- different but sufficient
- apparent medical
- perfectly good and sufficient
- expansive and exhaustive
- rather nervous and restless
- pure practical
- obscure impenetrable
- plausible, intelligible
- proportionately grave
- subtle and insane
- unknown and absolutely inexplicable
- truly natural or religious
- harsh mathematical
- main and simple
- strange and seemingly improbable
- common and very simple
- plausible but ridiculous
- sexist or social
- compelling extra
- completely unfathomable
- whole, abundant
- subconscious mnemonic
- improper and filthy
- foremost and fundamental
- single lawful
- ultimate and sufficient
- sonic obscure
- quick fourth
- strangely double
- excellent and very magnanimous
- worst, stupidest
- straight, past
- simple and very sufficient
- ethico-practical
- fallacious human
- sudden, sufficient
- decisive, secret
- perfect official
- apply blithe
- valid academic
- good goddamned
- best and most ostensible
- good or satisfactory
- unrealized sanitary
- unknown but imperative
- strong economical
- obviously sufficient
- strongest architectural
- trite, universal
- seeming reputable
- obvious and perhaps sufficient
- curious and esoteric
- personal prime
- mere unguided
- unknown symbolic
- sensible, selfish
- outwardly discernible
- special and real
- possible or intelligent
- secondary hygienic
- simple and wholly creditable
- horrible positive
- particular and weighty
- idiotic and perfectly pointless
- undeniable realistic
- natural or religious
- extremely good and sufficient
- surprising, perfect
- economically sounder
- valid and ostensible
- quaint or wicked
- alone formal
- final ostensible
- sad, sufficient
- excellent but fictitious
- potent domestic
- humble proud
- pure but practical
- sincere considerable
- stronger and sadder
- well icy
- trivial and tyrannical
- transcendental and interpretative
- possible or plausible
- good and sufficient
- legitimate contrary
- single and sufficient
- lofty and bitter
- practical pure
- single valid
- surely excellent
- secret and particular
- pure speculative
- simple and sufficient
- other valid
- good and unquestionable
- good selfish
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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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