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 reverence
Below is a list of describing words for reverence. 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 reverence:
- humble and real
- unbounded and almost childlike
- wonderful timid
- much covetous
- old-fashioned boyish
- low submissive
- loving and awful
- secret and sincere
- blind and partial
- quite indestructible
- lowly silent
- far-away superstitious
- fierce, your
- suitable republican
- sincere and silent
- deep and superstitious
- singular and superstitious
- noble and deferential
- more, universal
- lastly traditional
- motionless and obsequious
- tranquil moral
- superstitious legendary
- sincere and absolute
- profound and grateful
- ritual, superstitious
- inarticulate but very passionate
- brisk, unservile
- charming and respectful
- stiff and wary
- sacred and superstitious
- profound and most pious
- peculiar, sincere
- great prescriptive
- immoderate and blind
- false or uncritical
- majestic and unaffected
- respectful and almost devotional
- respectful and devotional
- singular, sudden
- dead or filial
- deep and obsequious
- historic or mystic
- unbounded, unreasoning
- profound and superstitious
- formal and icy
- entire and profound
- inspiring special
- infinite, unspeakable
- all-pervading and all-powerful
- heretofore unfelt
- profound habitual
- distant and imaginative
- slow-moving, awkward
- deep and almost abject
- graceful and low
- seeming and convincing
- characteristic superstitious
- somewhat indiscriminating
- sacred and inflexible
- humble far-off
- least, unqualified
- habitual and superstitious
- timid and worshipful
- native superstitious
- indistinct and somewhat oppressive
- natural enthusiastic
- shy, red
- low but somewhat grotesque
- fearful superstitious
- extravagant and obsequious
- wonderful and superstitious
- abnormal boyish
- blind but sincere
- hushed and anguished
- grand and timeless
- entirely unaccustomed
- due and devout
- old-fashioned chivalrous
- filial and loving
- humble and great
- remarkable superstitious
- greatest devotional
- almost devotional
- eager and devout
- long and universal
- almost superstitious
- gentle and so worthy
- crystal, due
- such worshipful
- fragile, sheer
- deep, insolent
- oddly gruesome
- almost mock
- cold, deprecatory
- same stultifying
- curious, endearing
- quite morbid
- deepest, real
- dutiful and pious
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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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