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 report
Below is a list of describing words for report. 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 report:
- seventeenth annual
- nineteenth biennial
- cordial endearing
- cautious verbal
- quite controversial
- last metallurgical
- worldwide meteorological
- additional alarming
- latest obstetrical
- hour-long special
- _annual archaeological
- gleeful play-by-play
- final, formal
- thorough verbal
- evil nor good
- short and rubbery
- joint but impartial
- excessively complete
- final magnetic
- verifiably factual
- faulty or incomplete
- cordial, endearing
- condensed parliamentary
- sixteenth annual
- fifth parliamentary
- last annual
- second annual
- official meteorological
- contrary, common
- interesting and condensed
- eventual technical
- completely unanimous
- annual corporate
- standard straightforward
- factual, complete
- tersely factual
- completely unrehearsed
- fresh, formal
- necessarily vague and fragmentary
- persistently absurd
- unhurried and unbiased
- twelfth annual
- lush special
- dubious upcoming
- uncharacteristically garrulous
- unproductive and frustrating
- own supplemental
- yearly meteorological
- belgian consular
- supplemental and additional
- seventh special
- daily typewritten
- uncommonly short and pleasant
- last quinquennial
- second interim
- thirty-fourth annual
- unanimous favorable
- preliminary ethnological
- _annual statistical
- vulgar somali
- voluminous and circumstantial
- unfair and utterly untrue
- final and instructive
- stiff, circumstantial
- eleventh annual
- full and concise
- usual hypnotic
- supplementary general-staff
- informal verbal
- forensic meteorological
- on-air audio
- annual departmental
- high-toned, idealistic
- deliberate and unanimous
- exclusive and authentic
- extraordinary and most remarkable
- uniquely enigmatic
- sober stand-up
- clean and concise
- much-talked-about perfect
- accurate generalized
- clear, concise and complete
- further bavarian
- general and up-to-date
- able and illuminating
- authoritative and full
- heartening and enthusiastic
- seventy-fifth annual
- quarterly missionary
- also printed
- honest, intelligible
- latest and oddest
- concise and unconnected
- plain official
- chinese further
- brief and elliptical
- french-language online
- briefly circumstantial
- infinitely distressing
- admirable but infinitely distressing
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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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