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 secrets
Below is a list of describing words for secrets. 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 secrets:
- nasty, harmful
- antique and sinister
- intimate girlish
- convenient guilty
- notoriously open
- down surprising
- nighted and abysmal
- strange profound
- mysterious and infamous
- shameful or mournful
- awesome, darkling
- such nighted
- often tedious and ridiculous
- doubtless guilty
- penetrating grim
- sweet naked
- high and particular
- trivial and momentous
- sorry, culinary
- imperial technological
- dark wrathful
- obscene and shameful
- intimate, nightmarish
- strictly non-naval
- profess-profess-professional
- deepest hacking
- usually trivial
- profound and inconceivable
- urgent and top
- appalling and incredible
- utterly mundane
- unpublished and highly interesting
- dark technological
- away departmental
- terrible, disgraceful
- supernatural, dark
- awful and joyful
- important or shameful
- elder and darker
- technological or other
- away official
- profitable and appetizing
- imperishable and priceless
- sweet every-day
- wondrous and gracious
- squalid avaricious
- high and weird
- ultimate inner
- quiet simple
- absolute satanic
- dark exciting
- general, top
- hottest pharmaceutical
- admirable chymical
- embarrassing human
- higher nor greater
- unfathomable maternal
- extremely polite and suave
- open tireless
- tedious and ridiculous
- ofcial
- efficient up-to-date
- family psychic
- profoundest military
- away basic
- minor guilty
- silly guilty
- diplomatic nor military
- french, military
- inexplicable open
- darkest stable
- precious and intimate
- so-called _super_-natural
- reweal
- delightful and considerable
- sundry odd-looking
- peculiarly precious and delicious
- dear involuntary
- many and very precious
- exactly military
- psychical and scientific
- marvelous and sacred
- highest and most enchanting
- certain pianistic
- imaginary and terrible
- strangest and most curious
- still well-guarded
- natural or confidential
- precious and covert
- least laudable
- horrible dumb
- domestic and governmental
- high and so dangerous
- fearful central
- horrid and repulsive
- intricate and treacherous
- disgraceful ancestral
- culinary anatomic
- grave, weighty
- closest and highest
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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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