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 rivals
Below is a list of describing words for rivals. 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 rivals:
- fiercest professional
- indigent and unpopular
- clearest potential
- triumphant european
- bitter spiritual
- up-territorial
- ambitious matriarchal
- jealous grecian
- great but not equal
- gorgeous and sturdy
- odious and disagreeable
- past, unscrupulous
- cordial but serious
- well-trained industrial
- formidable urban
- german synthetic
- unsuccessful and objectionable
- acute and worthy
- usually envious
- ardent but generous
- biggest terrestrial
- true, dangerous
- natural and jealous
- avaricious and perfidious
- greedy, avaricious and perfidious
- long-established and successful
- crawford--political
- jealous scholastic
- oldest and most formidable
- defunct royal
- usual, bitter
- unworthy and surreptitious
- sometimes happier
- formidable and finally successful
- low but formidable
- shadowy fantastic
- gay, rough
- inquisitive and sinister
- supply effective
- reckless, commercial
- malicious, jealous
- jealous commercial
- once envious
- severe and far-sighted
- other, conscious
- throne--several
- equal and few
- contemporary commercial
- humble political
- therefore closest
- least unscrupulous
- inconveniently active
- ancient microbial
- one-time deadliest
- now potential
- herpolitical
- jealous corporate
- potential petty
- sullen and jealous
- strong and greedy
- debonair portuguese
- strenuous and worthy
- less deluded
- modern and middle-class
- cunning and secretive
- jealous and exasperated
- miserable contemporary
- rancorous industrial
- unworthy italian
- usually victorious
- ambitious and influential
- french, dutch and danish
- fierce professional
- numerous jealous
- dutch, french and portuguese
- numerous and richer
- doubtless dangerous
- once puissant
- bare-footed southern
- bitterly jealous and envious
- yon mutinous
- fortunate or richer
- indeed successful
- destructive animal
- flippant and superficial
- easy and unsuspecting
- such long-established
- insolent and triumphant
- rather crafty
- vigorous european
- energetic and businesslike
- dangerous british
- ambitious and jealous
- formidable professional
- chief noble
- aside useless
- long-standing professional
- several antagonistic
- probable commercial
- ambitious, aggressive
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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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