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 rejoinder
Below is a list of describing words for rejoinder. 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 rejoinder:
- sarcastic and appropriate
- astonishingly courteous
- glib but respectful
- nonsensical and infantile
- emphatic and generous
- suitably sarcastic
- prim and tardy
- slightly explicit
- unnecessarily curt
- hasty and obvious
- equally impolite
- flip and smart
- ungracious and incomprehensible
- calmly brief
- vigorous and adroit
- extremely vigorous and adroit
- contemptuously quiet
- quick-wittedly amiable
- swift and contemptuous
- common, polite
- calmly insolent
- sufficiently lame
- darkly enigmatical
- natural and indignant
- icy official
- short but sufficiently good-natured
- civil, commonplace
- last sulphurous
- polite but slightly incoherent
- dry but caustic
- sufficiently gruff
- ambiguous and rudely merry
- rudely merry
- curt, lurid
- traditional girlish
- coldly vague
- humanely frank
- polite and conscientious
- tactful and decisive
- dry, insolent
- grave and rather stern
- somewhat unecclesiastical
- abrupt but grateful
- severe and rather contemptuous
- quietly insolent
- grim but very reasonable
- less enigmatical
- lighter female
- suitably insulting
- ironically evasive
- witty elizabethan
- equally discourteous
- delicious dry
- angry and profane
- rather crisp
- cool and obstinate
- tart and somewhat strange
- unintelligible chinese
- cheery and quick
- shrewdly anxious
- habitual curt
- awful and scathing
- instantaneous and effective
- suitable and instructive
- noble and negative
- scarcely polite
- equally crisp
- slow and wise
- witty and polite
- utterly surprising
- abrupt and decisive
- dryly ironic
- frankly brutal
- soft and specious
- angry and ferocious
- entirely pertinent
- immediate and frank
- quietly defensive
- quick teasing
- sufficiently good-natured
- virtuous and indignant
- unusually tart
- old stand-by
- swift, tart
- rude and impatient
- cheerful confident
- calm, ready
- stern, brutal
- satisfactory and interesting
- abrupt and passionate
- sharp, defiant
- rather able
- weak and inadequate
- less pertinent
- exceedingly civil
- brief but energetic
- occasional courteous
- shrewd clever
- kindly indulgent
- particularly rude
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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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