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 statesman
Below is a list of describing words for statesman. 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 statesman:
- wise, tranquil
- penetrating and steadfast
- excellent and unlucky
- ill elder
- profound and inscrutable
- inflexible republican
- fat and patriotic
- venerable conservative
- far-sighted and candid
- active and profound
- energetic and merciful
- defunct british
- beloved elder
- eminent colonial
- precise elder
- cold and somewhat haughty
- incorruptible and impartial
- crafty and vigilant
- great and gray-haired
- imaginative british
- competent and patriotic
- able, ambitious and daring
- patriotic and most enlightened
- politic and profound
- clever, callous
- fearless and far-sighted
- hardworking and able
- artful and active
- marvellously gifted
- crafty and corrupt
- practical and original
- rational british
- urbane elder
- lively elder
- compassionate elder
- iron-willed, insightful
- patriotic and wise
- all-powerful italian
- discerning and praiseworthy
- highly aristocratic and influential
- witty italian
- great far-sighted
- extremely able and patriotic
- disinterested and capable
- crafty enterprising
- accurate refined
- famous austro-hungarian
- unselfish canadian
- heady continental
- high-minded and self-sacrificing
- imaginative and masterful
- astute and charming
- philosophic german
- perfectly open and honest
- great and far-sighted
- able and scheming
- ideal ecclesiastical
- energetic, powerful
- disinterested and powerful
- great, poetic
- bold and gifted
- english-oriental
- wise and incorruptible
- incompetent and baneful
- exceptionally far-sighted
- generally discreet
- generally discreet and conservative
- discreet and conservative
- same high-minded
- pious and romantic
- magnetic british
- brilliant, eloquent and amazing
- eloquent and amazing
- wisest and most potent
- cautious and coldly public-spirited
- coldly public-spirited
- sincere british
- noblest, heroic and patriotic
- astute and tactful
- honest and comprehensive
- general and eminent
- enlightened and tactful
- versatile and self-interested
- patriotic and most philosophical
- ripe and skilful
- judicious and tolerant
- high-minded, masterful
- practical and wary
- active, eloquent
- extortionate and cruel
- avaricious, extortionate and cruel
- prudent or thoughtful
- conscientious and even chivalrous
- well-known rumanian
- philosophical british
- general and shrewdest
- astute austrian
- profound and safe
- comprehensive, profound and safe
- aspiring liberal
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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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