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 review
Below is a list of describing words for review. 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 review:
- limited judicial
- philippine agricultural
- british quarterly
- nonbinding judicial
- perfect grand
- foreign quarterly
- architectural quarterly
- full-page and very laudatory
- nervous and rapid
- final olympian
- western horticultural
- rival, --historical
- rapid but tolerably complete
- cost-savings
- personal on-the-spot
- reformer western
- comprehensive and despairing
- extraordinary able
- cheerfully scathing
- colonial quarterly
- thought--final
- contemporary thought--final
- masterly philosophical and historical
- masterly philosophical
- short-lived semi-annual
- well-informed and important
- general and somewhat copious
- judicial, unsympathetic
- chatty popular
- brief but essential
- final cool
- brief and very incomplete
- appeal or further
- appeal and judicial
- annual administrative
- national municipal
- canadian annual
- literarily penetrating
- immoderately effusive
- sympathetic and dispassionate
- exceedingly sympathetic and dispassionate
- favorite sinister
- gala naval
- thorough and fine-tooth
- splendid and scintillating
- slashingly liberal and progressive
- slashingly liberal
- thorough, well-planned
- weighty german
- biosophical
- careful and complimentary
- cordially appreciative
- careful or systematic
- popular and accurate
- grand preparatory
- similar and exhaustive
- inward swift
- general but necessarily short
- affectionately logical
- crisp, sensible
- succinct but full
- martial, judicial
- able but absurd
- annual nation-wide
- acrimonious reciprocal
- helpful pre-publication
- informal intradepartmental
- spirited and helpful
- careful, honest and unbiased
- unconscious, german
- able and appreciative
- concise but rich
- annual jocose
- similar tart
- sympathetic and excellent
- adverse critical
- exhaustive and genuine
- interesting, comprehensive
- absurdly condensed
- critical and lengthy
- showy grand
- quick oral
- monthly sociocultural
- parliamentary naval
- inspiring panoramic
- swiss statistical
- aforesaid dramatic
- exact and candid
- comprehensive, critical
- favorable and reasonably intelligent
- civil and cordial
- formal brief
- fastidious and reputable
- thorough and continual
- philosophical and intensely patriotic
- clear and well-illustrated
- condensed but graphic
- best philological
- annexations--general
- delightfully clever and malicious
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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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