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 sacrifice
Below is a list of describing words for sacrifice. 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 sacrifice:
- maimed or worthless
- annual wanton
- once innocent and general
- rationally valid
- animal and even human
- largely needless
- cruel and largely needless
- brave, desolate
- generous but inadequate
- heartbreaking personal
- ritual animal
- unintentional human
- bloodless and perfect
- formally pious
- heroic and extraordinary
- unreasonable financial
- utter, selfless
- savage royal
- avowal, such
- continual and exclusive
- amazing, immense
- aztec human
- rich and acceptable
- past and bloody
- public and outrageous
- red futile
- practised human
- worthy and conscious
- vague patriotic
- brutal and wrenching
- cruel helpless
- trial and most bitter
- silent and uncomplaining
- fiery and awful
- unnatural and guilty
- zeal and unfailing
- precious, momentous
- daily ancestral
- chief and most solemn
- solemn and periodical
- idiotically useless
- mexican annual
- vicarious human
- smallest monetary
- internal true
- heroic and voluntary
- ceaseless and deliberate
- appropriate and agreeable
- eternally efficacious
- voluntary and most fragrant
- external and apparent
- divinely efficacious
- mock human
- great quinquennial
- obvious corresponding
- incredible, humiliating
- final, willing
- great unpleasant
- wholly impious
- acceptable and willing
- seasonal joint
- underground, day-by-day
- much selfless
- sad but clever
- such intentioned
- public or even domestic
- hopeless, awful
- nay eager
- horrible useless
- unjust, wanton
- zeal and pecuniary
- perfect willing
- monotonous and continual
- appalling and wanton
- complete willing
- personal, vicarious
- atrocious and ignominious
- needless, purposeless
- wholesale and meaningless
- divine and vicarious
- heroic and entirely monstrous
- yearly human
- spiritual and commemorative
- vast vicarious
- splendid, foolish
- tremendous and unnatural
- critical, ceremonial
- only-too-unusual
- inhuman but only-too-unusual
- courageous or unselfish
- grand and heedless
- costliest and sweetest
- loyal and festal
- ready and fruitful
- evidently vicarious
- self-denial and voluntary
- severest private
- honorable but useless
- desperate, uncomplaining
- literal bloody
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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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