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 right
Below is a list of describing words for right. 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 right:
- kinda busy
- sovereign natural
- limited
- thermal current
- agreeably cooperative
- personal prescriptive
- sublime general
- non-exclusive, nontransferable
- it--heal
- clearly legal
- strongly complimentary
- spanish clean
- fair, wrong
- natural and inalienable
- long prescriptive
- completely weird
- nasty current
- french extreme
- multiple red
- personal and sovereign
- partially moistened
- symposiarchal
- low pivot
- open, more or less
- german extreme
- equal or common
- hardly appropriate
- socially impeccable
- uncommitted colonial
- thy paramount
- impartially charming
- hard and golden
- decent flush
- jist thin
- subsequent adverse
- chartered nor inherent
- electrostatically neutral
- arrival portal
- little topsy-turvy
- transcendent and precious
- cram hereditary
- kinda full
- hollow and uphill
- perpetual and unalienable
- social, fullest
- inherent and exclusive
- noblest british
- divine and inalienable
- partly clenched
- mysteriously dead
- morally real
- morally real and justifiable
- legal, god-given
- just impossible
- complete prenatal
- flat and sharp
- dang expensive
- tactical withdrawal
- inherent and invaluable
- conditional universal
- divine hereditary
- natural, inalienable
- indubitable, undeniable
- indubitable legal
- complete and paramount
- inalienable sovereign
- just squat
- inalienable
- natural and unalienable
- imperial counter-intelligence
- exactly helpful
- real scarce
- unfortunate delinquent
- insubordinate human
- geometrically impossible
- wickedly charred
- familiar arid
- little nervy
- hill-elemental
- nontransferable
- wrong and wrong
- unqualified or interminable
- valid proprietary
- self-evident, inalienable
- faintest legal
- lawful and inalienable
- ancient editorial
- extinct imperial
- best and most blissful
- absolute god-given
- essential, unalterable
- positive inalienable
- brave and very cheerful
- inalienable and mystic
- inalienable and indisputable
- perfect and inalienable
- trivial or insignificant
- bellical
- indefinite and exclusive
- remote ethical
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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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