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 struggle
Below is a list of describing words for struggle. 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 struggle:
- remorseless revolutionary
- competitive survival
- bloody, wasteful
- short and unavailing
- brief, internal
- dense and desperate
- daily, hopeless
- obscure, long-simmering
- brave and unrelenting
- personal and poignant
- desperate mute
- desperate and decisive
- classic liberal-conservative
- severe inner
- titanic but inconclusive
- impending desperate
- bloody, breathless
- titanic inner
- ongoing ethical
- subtle and covert
- inglorious, economic
- useless degrading
- breathless and altogether desperate
- late joint
- short but ineffectual
- long and rickety
- maddening, bloody
- short mock
- terrible, dumb
- long and inconsistent
- titanic intellectual
- industrious selfish
- short-range and final
- arduous and doubtful
- fiercest competitive
- violent and visible
- ardent, pitiless
- chivalrous and incessant
- imminent and fierce
- fearful and interesting
- incessant spiritual
- desperate and protracted
- violent and intensely sensuous
- hard-fought, bitter
- temporary internal
- unconscious and ardent
- dumb, moral
- trivial electoral
- ceaseless, furious
- eerie, futile
- overpowering interior
- unutterably magnificent
- daily life-and-death
- frightful psychic
- useless physical
- satisfyingly terrific
- social nor economical
- complex, universal
- faint and heartless
- long life-and-death
- desperate and awful
- endless, unceasing
- masterful heroic
- fierce, indecisive
- ceaseless, sober
- fearful and angry
- unequal and desperate
- sullen and mortal
- vast and communal
- terrible all-night
- brief but gallant
- appalling and amazing
- generous fraternal
- latest constitutional
- quite subordinate and sympathetic
- short but plucky
- vain disastrous
- weak and final
- desperate and well-nigh hopeless
- hopeless and pitiless
- dumb, proud
- new, desperate and continuous
- selfish but good-humored
- present life-and-death
- unceasing and miserable
- final hand-to-hand
- tight and silent
- fierce and silent
- life-and-death
- continual and savage
- social and war-like
- ruthlessly elegant
- brief and terrific
- difficult and disillusioning
- vicious, irreconcilable
- tenacious and completely futile
- short, bloodless
- long-running and desperate
- terrible and seemingly insurmountable
- slow and mammoth
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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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