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 revelations
Below is a list of describing words for revelations. 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 revelations:
- old-fashioned biblical
- unbearable theological
- unnecessarily abrupt and spectacular
- blinding and appalling
- previous and everlasting
- emotionally shocking
- authoritative external
- pre-eminent and glorious
- boastful and indiscreet
- remote, inarticulate
- abrupt and spectacular
- few disappointing
- unnecessarily abrupt
- imminent secular
- monstrous but thoroughly characteristic
- historic and unexpected
- stupendous and abnormal
- ambiguous and disturbing
- later divine
- promising important
- partial and impotent
- embarrassing, delightful
- perfect and superhuman
- fulfilled--celestial
- startling and unambiguous
- tentative, partial
- vigorous colorful
- similarly momentous
- marvelous, unexpected
- expressive physiognomical
- final, astounding
- momentous, better
- incredible, frightful
- sudden bald
- immediately significant
- overly precipitous
- scientific-social
- greatest scientific-social
- next unintentional
- shocking and unwelcome
- profane and stale
- unique and wondrous
- sublime and momentous
- miraculous and authentic
- wondrous and transcendent
- unprecedented and overpowering
- speedy and fullest
- last and startling
- frank and amazing
- sudden or magical
- mysterious and poignant
- complete and scathing
- exclusive and infallibly divine
- infallibly divine
- infallible supernatural
- uncertain, private
- true extraordinary
- divine, extraordinary
- veritable and trustworthy
- infallible divine
- sudden and quite startling
- single, stunning
- unusual and mysterious
- fresh and overwhelming
- final startling
- new or grand
- final breathtaking
- new and extremely convincing
- final and most appalling
- special, joyful
- impossibly devastating
- extremely important and instructive
- fortunately conciliatory
- enlightened but always practical
- premature but fortunately conciliatory
- other, fresher and deeper
- stunning and welcome
- direct or literal
- astonishingly unexpected
- sudden and stupid
- joyous and necessary
- always accurate and true
- worldwide supernatural
- strange and casual
- startling and most unexpected
- irish other
- rather heretical
- recent incontestable
- direct and inner
- necessarily mythical and subrational
- cloudless divine
- necessarily mythical
- unfortunate physiognomical
- fullest final
- progressive historic
- grim, religious
- supernatural or momentary
- heart-rending and harrowing
- ancient and incomplete
- privately indiscreet
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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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