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 servant
Below is a list of describing words for servant. 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 servant:
- obedient and most humble
- obedient humble
- obedient, humble
- affectionate humble
- obedient and very humble
- affectionate, humble
- wicked and slothful
- indebted humble
- obedient and humble
- faithful humble
- dusty civil
- most obedient
- humble and very obedient
- grateful humble
- extinct domestic
- invaluable but erratic
- obedient faithful
- humble and most obedient
- thine unprofitable
- liveried indoor
- your humble
- faithful, humble
- humorous civil
- exalted and conscientious
- conveniently blind and deaf
- ever-loyal and obedient
- faithful and most humble
- hollow or cold
- noble and sufficient
- obsequious, humble
- big, dour
- faithful siberian
- soulless personal
- faithful and most obedient
- old, serviceable
- immaculate public
- miserable and unfaithful
- lifelong and faithful
- active, unbelieving
- humble and obedient
- newest and most versatile
- docile human
- unappreciated public
- submissive and very humble
- open-mouthed white-haired
- single liveried
- humble and willing
- bumbling and remarkably gullible
- remarkably gullible
- faithful obedient
- much obedient
- affectionate and most humble
- faithful and obedient
- obedient
- high-minded public
- underpaid civil
- faithful confidential
- unwilling but faithful
- estimable civil
- discreet upper
- intelligent, unobtrusive
- meanest unnamed
- faithful and unrequited
- honest but inflexible
- mere ethiopian
- sincere humble
- malleable public
- beloved faithful
- faithful public
- mere upper
- dishonest public
- faithful and humble
- good and faithful
- obedient and faithful
- faithful and wise
- old-fashioned civil
- silent and very efficient
- anxious liveried
- unofficial public
- deceased humble
- loving, sincere
- magnificent and able
- old and zealous
- eagle-eyed public
- unpaid upper
- lone native
- stereotypical civil
- private native
- industrious and well-paid
- beggarly runaway
- slatternly general
- old & faithful
- unfortunate humble
- indebted, humble
- respectful and most obedient
- humble and most faithful
- youngest civil
- lewd and treacherous
- refined upper
- painstaking public
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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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