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 recovery
Below is a list of describing words for recovery. 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 recovery:
- smart and elastic
- amazing post-operative
- likely slow
- natural, slow
- definite, speedy
- speechless and past
- solid macroeconomic
- possibly complete
- ol ecological
- paternal and complacent
- insane economic
- uneventful and healthful
- short apparent
- speedy, speedy
- survival and latter-day
- often spontaneous
- strangely tardy and fitful
- strangely tardy
- eventual long-term
- imperfect molecular
- complete spontaneous
- uneventful and uninterrupted
- entire, final
- slow and very tedious
- interval partial
- generally rapid and complete
- wide, complete
- supremely brilliant
- abrupt, incredible
- crumpled past
- splendid and astounding
- partial final
- past and gallant
- quick economic
- rapid and apparently full
- unfavorable, mental
- tardy and painful
- near-at-hand complete
- slow and only partial
- ever-increasing, reliable
- slow and uninterrupted
- complete subsequent
- uninterrupted economic
- fewer usable
- quick and full
- moderate economic
- complete and safe
- excellent quick
- difficult and long
- instant full
- new-found, partial
- gradual and painful
- limited spontaneous
- slow, incomplete
- swift and immaculate
- undoubtedly swift
- everywhere economic
- fiery and painful
- famous metamorphic
- self-proclaimed metamorphic
- slow but consistent
- purposely clumsy
- long and incomplete
- large post-surgical
- mental and cognitive
- promising rapid
- usually rapid and complete
- miraculous and direct
- tedious, troublesome
- certain but gradual
- complete and fine
- national industrial
- equal, successive
- invariably rapid
- possible hasty
- sick past
- rapid and perfectly satisfactory
- else permanent
- generally rapid
- long economic
- rapid and speedy
- sometimes spontaneous
- late possible
- lost, past
- mad past
- fatal and complete
- rarely fatal and complete
- rapid and excellent
- fair and speedy
- full and uncomplicated
- gentle but slow
- sick, speedy
- quick and complete
- rapid and complete
- perfectly astounding
- full and speedy
- apparently uneventful
- solid economic
- quick and fortunate
- full and swift
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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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