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 rewards
Below is a list of describing words for rewards. 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 rewards:
- final and most precious
- totally gratifying
- legitimate and splendid
- consequential and voluntary
- slight or jocular
- curious, austere
- rich and restorative
- different and softer
- rich and abiding
- >totally gratifying
- honorary and pecuniary
- last, commensurate
- artificial and immediate
- promising large
- undeserved and extravagant
- extravagant, eternal
- permissible financial
- undoubtedly amazing
- indeed great and glorious
- intangible or illusory
- peculiar and tempting
- abundant and gracious
- suitable professional
- faithful, abundant and gracious
- substantial and intelligible
- tawdry, meretricious
- indeterminate financial
- coaxing and promising
- sizable monetary
- fairer or better
- -social and economic
- large and most tempting
- temporal and visible
- special and rich
- venturesome, brave
- more fabled
- well special
- best and most happy
- pass--occasional
- cruel, backhanded
- daring and exceptional
- incidental monetary
- astonishing pecuniary
- specific pecuniary
- careless and liberal
- facile spiritual
- honorary and lucrative
- bitterly inadequate
- above-mentioned high
- ecstatic, unspeakable
- great unearned
- meager temporary
- external and quasi-material
- honorary and personal
- largest material
- appreciable monetary
- contingent and trifling
- pre-eminently high
- richest material
- sure and material
- ethical and psychical
- rich and divine
- ample material
- fine and most welcome
- ignoble substantial
- constant, present
- uncertain but magnificent
- admirable and certain
- necessarily temporal or corporal
- ultimate rich
- necessarily temporal
- usual and virtuous
- emptier social
- excessive or extravagant
- ample and obvious
- similar thankful
- substantial and golden
- fittest and highest
- whole, professional
- unfailing and ungracious
- titular and pecuniary
- speedy and unfailing
- finite and temporary
- immediate or great
- commercial or pecuniary
- rich and sufficient
- merely commercial or pecuniary
- always ample and satisfactory
- vast, immense
- imply special and individual
- external, palpable
- crowning and sweet
- honorary and other
- financial and honorary
- substantially visible
- wildly inadequate
- fierce harmonious
- adequate monetary
- rich and incorruptible
- material nor immaterial
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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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