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 sequence
Below is a list of describing words for sequence. 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 sequence:
- stable luminous
- unbroken and immutable
- chronological and national
- main spectral
- automatic revival
- mahal next
- mature logical
- different and complex
- somewhat irregular and irrelevant
- spectacular final
- resonant explosive
- stern and logical
- quadratic prime
- long quadratic
- slow and clear
- wearisome and irritating
- twofold, irreversible
- singular causal
- logically estimable
- merciless and inexorable
- long and unimaginably complex
- horizontal cause-and-effect
- last underwater
- splendid inevitable
- normal stratigraphical
- orderly historical
- natural and immemorial
- story--logical
- unknown key
- formal numerical
- rough chronological
- utmost logical
- irregular and irrelevant
- normal, chronological
- similar binary
- supple, viable
- definite cause-and-effect
- rather nightmarish
- rapid and irreversible
- coherent and meaningful
- perfectly obvious and apparent
- initial undisturbed
- formally accurate
- altogether different and broader
- logically essential
- invariable or ascertainable
- primordial psychological
- sufficient causal
- clear, consecutive
- perfectly regular and natural
- impotent natural
- strict statistical
- cosmic evolutionary
- rigidly chronological
- strict sta\-tistical
- mythically resonant
- eerie and mythically resonant
- crazy, animated
- normal cause-and-effect
- nightmarishly subliminal
- famous free-fall
- initial main
- fast start-up
- fascinating three-day
- gruesome slow-motion
- scarcely logical
- remote and logical
- previous immediate
- wrong and illogical
- definite and mutually exclusive
- opaque, empirical
- dreamy rhythmic
- geology--general
- stratigraphical geology--general
- strata--general
- perfectly logical and natural
- wise and inevitable
- clearest logical
- logical and honest
- well-defined rhythmical
- inevitable and irresistible
- natural tactical
- continuous and purely natural
- rigid and inevitable
- orderly petrological
- interesting and orderly petrological
- perfectly natural and beautiful
- infallible, unquestionable
- necessary or unconditional
- closer alphabetic
- imperfect alphabetical
- logical or causal
- closely chronological
- invariable, necessary
- universal regular
- familiar endurable
- complete and gradual
- course--natural
- eternal inevitable
- accidental but natural
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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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