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 skill
Below is a list of describing words for skill. 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 skill:
- brutal intricate
- verifiable paranormal
- reckless and exhilarating
- enormous surgical
- uncanny architectural
- locally potent
- communicable technical
- consummate rhetorical
- also discernible
- balanced sheer
- legendary erotic
- agricultural and artistic
- shallow simple
- competent physico-mathematical
- sharp, unerring
- inborn mechanical
- considerable veterinary
- savvy and political
- illiterate and technical
- devastating and subtle
- strange careful
- great manual
- consummate nautical
- daring and consummate
- sufficient constructive
- glad, creative
- useful secondary
- vital additional
- impartial, nerveless
- individual diplomatic
- special and highly useful
- cold-blooded, professional
- ingenious chemical
- surely faithful and loving
- surely faithful
- thereto competent
- mechanical, agricultural and artistic
- dazzling verbal
- extraordinary constructive
- mere manipulative
- mechanical descriptive
- juvenile and fugitive
- capital and inventive
- thy helpful
- fancy, metrical
- exterior, mediocre
- professional and specific
- vital survival
- consummate technical
- consummate strategic
- innate mechanical
- consummate military
- positively atavistic
- gentle, dextrous
- precise surgical
- utmost lyrical
- much seamless
- intuitive but overwhelming
- capital and constructive
- deadly unerring
- masterly dialectical
- comprehensive architectonic
- much declamatory
- usual dialectical
- unusual dialectical
- manipulative and horticultural
- good and tolerable
- slender, dramatic
- famed artistic
- medical and linguistic
- instinctive and yet prescient
- perhaps nicer
- slightest manipulative
- fancy and superior
- rare decorative
- unrivaled maritime
- self-taught military
- away manual
- antic equestrian
- incomparable legislative
- artistic and medicinal
- prurient literary
- enthralling artistic
- pious artistic
- consummate and delicate
- harder, truer
- disconcerting and almost uncanny
- highest strategetical
- rare culinary
- egyptian mechanical
- exterior, professional
- same consummate
- exact and honest
- mere culinary
- considerable strategic
- high manual
- consummate medical
- ornamental literary
- requisite mechanical
- conspicuous dramatic
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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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