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 sharing
Below is a list of describing words for sharing. 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 sharing:
- largest direct
- larger hereditary
- smallest rightful
- own fourteenth
- wholly vicarious
- peculiar and bitter
- gilded and graceful
- rightful free
- large and inalienable
- distinct and eminent
- rightful preponderating
- unrivaled collective
- notable and ever-increasing
- notable and never-to-be-forgotten
- notable and decisive
- actual efficacious
- large and unqualified
- glaringly disproportionate
- equal and proportionate
- audible and distressing
- peculiar, inalienable
- large previous
- willing causal
- similar weighted
- mighty fair
- comparatively large and valuable
- constant and chief
- proportionately insignificant
- deep and tragical
- definite minimum
- small nor undeserved
- large and willing
- large and entirely proper
- excessive and unfair
- unduly excessive
- essential and incalculable
- inadequate and disproportionate
- progressively effective
- exquisite and surreptitious
- sometimes exclusive
- full or unusually large
- secondary or even humble
- total relative
- distinct, permanent
- clear, satisfying
- usually conspicuous and powerful
- vacant and blank
- intensely vacant and blank
- intensely vacant
- personal and prominent
- inadequate and extremely expressive
- capital aktienkapital
- full and proportionate
- nominal or illusory
- quiet but legitimate
- premeditated, thy
- low, rich and poor
- bitter but submissive
- ordinary paid-up
- large and most honorable
- slight but all-important
- political and very little
- exorbitant and disproportionate
- full phrenological
- original and substantive
- rightful, happy
- pos>
equal - equal or proper
- cumulative preferred
- pro-rata
- once equal
- already noteworthy
- certain undivided
- own proportionate
- thoroughly courageous
- immediate and equal
- ignorant or vulgar
- hugely disproportionate
- large proprietary
- fair and proportionate
- least and last
- active and distinct
- former sixteenth
- alike equal
- useful and creditable
- due and natural
- equal fractional
- thin but genuine
- own proportional
- same rightful
- fair official
- essential and considerable
- relatively excessive
- somewhat villainous
- practical and equal
- humble but patriotic
- large and affectionate
- human and necessary
- improper and unlawful
- proper and proportionate
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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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