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 reduction
Below is a list of describing words for reduction. 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 reduction:
- prospective and rapid
- certain and gradual
- unexpected, unjust
- possible drastic
- further and considerable
- inexplicable but mercifully brief
- hitherto immediate
- accurate and painless
- consequent diffuse
- sudden and apparently arbitrary
- mutual and balanced
- incredible human
- simple chaotic
- mutual bilateral
- such long-simmering
- mathematically verifiable
- consequent gravitational
- pleasurable and satisfying
- continuously harmonious
- fully proportionate
- similar bankrupt
- extensive and frightful
- certain or considerable
- further gradual
- clear, photographic
- unobtrusive, physical
- distinct and spontaneous
- phosphorous, electrical
- main peaceful
- undue pacific
- [general and systematic
- general and proportionate
- remarkable and even astonishing
- low, further
- undoubtedly secondary
- consequent appreciable
- late wholesale
- drastic overall
- annual and rapid
- secular or very slow
- gradual and insistent
- great and wholly unexpected
- fair and mutual
- partly subjective
- negative standard
- across-the-board, statutory
- slight but calculable
- corresponding slight
- vast and careful
- simple and unfair
- rather simple and unfair
- further drastic
- small but actual
- temporary, slight
- equally considerable
- better bacterial
- typical numerical
- further numerical
- simultaneous official
- tolerably easy and confident
- steady and radical
- new three-fourths
- progressive and indefinite
- great and protracted
- tiny permanent
- considerable and immediate
- immediate and extraordinary
- safe and gradual
- striking and general
- steady but sure
- further complete
- immediate and considerable
- total and exclusive
- extreme and final
- slow, systematic
- later cruel
- rather draconian
- steadily progressive
- morbid and dangerous
- formal and real
- continuous and universal
- decadal
- further judicial
- electrothermal
- further voluntary
- great or too little
- earliest practicable
- ‘orbital
- further and great
- immediate and large
- possible slight
- further local
- sudden general
- immediate and startling
- rather material
- general and great
- further substantial
- gradual
- total psychological
- frequent and large
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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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