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 remedy
Below is a list of describing words for remedy. 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 remedy:
- rightful and effectual
- easily prepared
- effectual legislative
- speedy and efficacious
- natural but desperate
- excellent and prevalent
- efficient and peaceable
- otherwise past
- present and pleasant
- african herbal
- usually sovereign
- perfect and effectual
- nastier but safer
- practicable, efficient
- great equitable
- ultimate violent
- idiotic, herbal
- good effectual
- backward primitive
- efficacious and universal
- highly efficacious and universal
- anticatarrhal
- internal specific
- desperate and drastic
- last and radical
- drastic but surefire
- rare median
- sure and specific
- final and trenchant
- due and hasty
- splendid and harmless
- simple but certain
- ecclesiastical effectual
- direct common-law
- real and speedy
- interesting and permanent
- sure and sovereign
- preventive or specific
- rude but efficacious
- valuable universal
- inexpensive and agreeable
- ineffective and dangerous
- alike past
- vast and present
- safe and generally efficacious
- generally efficacious
- safe and most excellent
- partial and short-lived
- sad but sure
- principal infallible
- honest or simple
- singular and most excellent
- anti-conceptual
- perfect anti-conceptual
- last and drastic
- liquid cathartic
- cheap and sure
- simple, cheap and sure
- thorough and practicable
- simple and absolutely effective
- preservative or effectual
- absolutely efficacious
- single and efficient
- startling and drastic
- rational, politic
- easy and ostensible
- difficult but real
- good but weaker
- easy and feasible
- radical and adequate
- favorite, domestic
- popular, domestic
- pleasant and specific
- comparatively old-fashioned
- old and very efficacious
- desperate and almost heroical
- substantial or efficacious
- homely curative
- cordial astringent
- specific or sovereign
- unlawful and useless
- precious universal
- often efficacious
- old-fashioned but often efficacious
- quick and stringent
- definite, constructive
- popular medicinal
- unsuitable or unjust
- proper and only wise
- appropriate and wise
- old and rather vulgar
- punctual false
- easy, effectual
- agreeable and efficacious
- full and radical
- true and common-sense
- reasonable and effectual
- inadequate and probably harmful
- efficient and certain
- potent and certain
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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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