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 refugees
Below is a list of describing words for refugees. 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 refugees:
- haitian and cuban
- many liberian
- desperate hispanic
- mere hispanic
- hapless italian
- helpless hispanic
- press-ganged colonial
- obviously typical
- penniless, desperate
- deranged distressed
- destitute cuban
- damn foreign
- worth and rich
- other tem�poral
- tempo�ral
- ungrateful, uninteresting
- panicky human
- few wild-eyed
- shabby political
- pro-castro cuban
- sad, prefab
- exotic and attractive
- cunning, age-old
- ragged and fearful
- little palestinian
- pathetic chinese
- norwegian “political
- subsequently fresh
- semi-literate somali
- destitute belgian
- fugitive and deluded
- less middle-class
- able but testy
- sick, unwelcome
- penniless, obscure
- wealthier french
- unkempt polish
- hmong and other
- many angolan
- mostly murderous
- seventy-two political
- afterwards belgian
- irish and hungarian
- jewish and spanish
- certainly homeless
- poor and religious
- evidently hungry and weary
- daring moral
- few unwilling
- myriad sleek
- northern babylonian
- eritrean
- homeless minor
- pitiful, ragged
- bedraggled young
- now haitian
- young cambodian
- recent israeli
- silent scarred
- already homeless
- genuine czech
- jewish austrian
- skinny seventeen-year-old
- pathetic, ragged
- pale, cultured
- other interplanetary
- political
- poor but loving
- many cambodian
- tem�poral
- helpless and powerless
- would-be colored
- young and secret
- many haitian
- occasional crazed
- damned hapless
- poor liberian
- other five-star
- potential non-aryan
- destitute female
- education--political
- frequently political
- orthodox and erudite
- enterprising french
- portuguese jewish
- exceptionally well-equipped
- usual late-afternoon
- more panic-stricken
- hungarian and polish
- also belgian
- unfortunate hungarian
- other french-speaking
- equally destitute
- evidently hungry
- french religious
- zairean
- desperate or arrogant
- desperate, would-be
- english-speaking chinese
- uglier, more
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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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