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 science
Below is a list of describing words for science. 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 science:
- former forensic
- bengal social
- rudimental divine
- profound statistical
- whole meticulous
- genuinely optimistic
- spanish, general
- formal and laborious
- real, present-day
- memorial psychic
- army--martial
- technical and textual
- instrumental or mechanical
- powerless european
- mechanistic natural
- grandly revolutionary
- primary aft
- well traditional
- genuine and experimental
- particular, evolutionary
- modern natural
- important but most imperfect
- limits--physical
- certain limits--physical
- ‘mental and moral
- ancient unscientific
- concrete deductive
- mathematically refined
- new exact
- quaint biological
- genuinely pure
- exact or precise
- evolutionary so-called
- atomic and microscopic
- delicate but showy
- natural or mental
- modern physical
- correct, hard
- manifest medical
- someday medical
- subsequent genetic
- outmoded pseudo
- wicked modern
- human or celestial
- so-called dismal
- such heavy-weight
- earthly analytical
- pleasant regional
- martial sanitary
- classical positive
- sublime and congenial
- deplorable theological
- political and most economical
- theological and natural
- best award-winning
- modern entomological
- abstruse and useful
- mathematical and deductive
- truly absolute or divine
- positive, critical
- ancient, physiological
- geographical and philosophical
- later biological and psychological
- recently sanitary
- latest psycho-physiological
- serious and perfectly valid
- palestinian natural
- false ignoble
- metaphysical or moral
- physical, metaphysical or moral
- hirsutical
- recent but ardent
- elementary experimental
- least medical
- cold, unfettered
- common imaginary
- again galactic
- vain but lucrative
- soviet physical
- truly even-handed
- financial or medical
- mathematical, financial or medical
- intriguing contemporary
- mind-bogglingly talented
- extraordinarily digestive
- literarily successful
- astounding and other
- rigorous, exact
- french natural
- apodictically certain
- hydrostatic or astronomical
- culinary and botanical
- so-called anti-christian
- physical or speculative
- regulative or normative
- young and inexact
- extremely inexact
- cold and exact
- physiological nor microscopical
- high deductive
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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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