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 retirement
Below is a list of describing words for retirement. 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 retirement:
- sudden but not final
- strict and economical
- far domestic
- seemingly philosophical
- quiet, innocuous
- little tax-exempt
- unnatural, unwise
- else temporary
- rapid and perilous
- decorous, temporary
- studious and devout
- deliberate and gallant
- uninterrupted rural
- peaceful and well-paid
- nice distant
- pagan past
- ignoble and slothful
- merrily inglorious
- doubtful prospective
- secret and prosperous
- premature and unreasonable
- german recent
- beautiful and studious
- comfortable and well-endowed
- tranquil and honorable
- domestic or literary
- sudden and formal
- temporary and welcome
- premature or hasty
- possibly uncongenial
- secretly active
- subsequent involuntary
- multitudinous, symmetrical
- compelling continual
- quiet but useful
- best ignominious
- full and plentiful
- german voluntary
- apparent voluntary
- it--ungenial
- fancy it--ungenial
- criminal and voluntary
- coolest, cleanest
- partial and ignoble
- resolute and quiet
- happy and active
- otherwise cheerful and comfortable
- quiet life-long
- little, domestic
- tranquil, elegant
- vacant and solitary
- profound and hallowed
- frank and complete
- calm and solitary
- quiet gradual
- obviously past
- sterile, unproductive
- past respectable
- irrevocable and permanent
- subsequent, abrupt
- meditative, religious
- literary and rural
- honorable and comfortable
- inheritances—gradual
- inheritances--gradual
- aqua-arboreal
- voluntary early
- almost monastical
- domestic and provincial
- deep and hallowed
- calm and studious
- self-denial and modest
- denial and modest
- utmost monastic
- rather inevitable
- long and perpetual
- profound and undisturbed
- honorable and prosperous
- quiet and genteel
- calm and cultured
- consequent abrupt
- quiet cheerful
- past mandatory
- shortsighted compulsory
- fairly posh
- quiet and obscure
- exceedingly perilous
- timid monastic
- long voluntary
- own inviolate
- devout and contemplative
- brief but satisfying
- further short
- partial or temporary
- previous democratic
- preferred greater
- modest but comfortable
- almost compulsory
- same suburban
- long and comfortable
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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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