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 reign
Below is a list of describing words for reign. 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 reign:
- long and auspicious
- ancient solitary
- peaceful and indulgent
- long, corrupt
- sole and peaceful
- bizarre three-day
- salutary and unending
- ancient, solitary
- unhappy and inglorious
- troubled and transitory
- short but spectacular
- mild and universal
- peaceful but obscure
- short and inglorious
- generally ruthless
- brief and tempestuous
- happy, prosperous and powerful
- troublesome and precarious
- long and equally glorious
- long and prosperous
- present unbroken
- inglorious and disastrous
- auspicious or stable
- silent easy
- troubled and busy
- ostentatious and not impolitic
- long and really glorious
- proud and royal
- plentiful but luxurious
- prosperous and even glorious
- malignant and disastrous
- peaceful, strong and glorious
- glorious but turbulent
- long and unchallenged
- mischievous and unhappy
- clerical monarchical
- unusually long and quiet
- strong but pacific
- reckless and unfortunate
- wicked, reckless and unfortunate
- long but disastrous
- pitiful and humiliating
- long and most prosperous
- weakest and most vicious
- prosperous and glorious
- sacred calm
- long and fortunate
- otherwise dull and oppressive
- extremely unquiet
- far brief
- unconscious free
- *tragical
- popular twelve-year
- rigid and stagnant
- turbulent three-year
- roximately ten-year
- triumphant and peaceful
- short and unfortunate
- short but prosperous
- constantly lucky
- brilliant and yet disastrous
- mild and bloodless
- thy annual
- active and splendid
- short, disgraceful
- just successive
- whole mediatorial
- now highest
- short and virtuous
- whole millennial
- public triumphal
- prosperous but so disastrous
- glorious and most prosperous
- still brief
- peaceful but brilliant
- sad and perfect
- inner all-pervading
- showy and ineffectual
- solitary, rural
- prodigal and heartless
- foolish and chaotic
- prosperous and pacific
- unpopular and weak
- brief and noble
- uninterrupted and unchecked
- feeble and disastrous
- weak, disgraceful
- inglorious and unhappy
- brief and shameful
- long, synchronous
- splendid but utterly corrupt
- ancient immaterial
- painfully stiff and poor
- eternal mediatorial
- thy death-like
- usually skilful and honest
- appallingly tragic
- happy and final
- longest and most prosperous
- gaunt and hateful
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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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