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 reformation
Below is a list of describing words for reformation. 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 reformation:
- francophone liberal
- cheap, bloodless
- pugnacious theological
- solid or consistent
- godly thorough
- necessary and due
- slow but tremendous
- new but cautious
- entire and disinterested
- universal and visible
- fitful temporary
- public and thorough
- sudden and high-handed
- bold conjectural
- ultimate and somewhat monotonous
- memorable second
- possible institutional
- wholesome and practicable
- permanent or far-reaching
- amply dry
- sullen but optimistic
- cautious and guiltless
- last & best
- relative, thorough
- signal and happy
- sublime ecclesiastical
- moral internal
- immediate or very extensive
- peaceful universal
- far genuine
- large preliminary
- unmistakable and universal
- suitable personal
- immediate and happy
- consequent religious
- wholesome and abiding
- strictly puritan
- glorious and ever memorable
- honest and charitable
- thorough human
- speedy and fundamental
- personal and external
- moral and administrative
- true and radical
- sudden and cataclysmic
- thorough ecclesiastical
- real and thorough
- old out-of-date
- sudden and effectual
- complete and rigorous
- thorough general
- possible entire
- true and safe
- thorough moral
- essential political
- glorious and perfect
- methodical, rational
- individual or general
- immediate and entire
- great and effectual
- great and capital
- temperate and judicious
- radical and thorough
- so-called glorious
- profound and powerful
- graver political
- bright and blissful
- therefore moral
- larger and fairer
- glorious and memorable
- decisive and final
- easy and cheap
- certain and permanent
- weighty moral
- mere theoretical
- wild and impracticable
- fresh moral
- true and thorough
- active aggressive
- universal and general
- national ecclesiastical
- compelling moral
- great and bold
- greatest theological
- conservative religious
- post-matrimonial
- wonderful religious
- true and vital
- full and thorough
- complete national
- thorough and efficient
- immediate and universal
- much belated
- true internal
- german and swiss
- french and swiss
- great choral
- further religious
- less such
- great radical
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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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