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 studying
Below is a list of describing words for studying. 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 studying:
- in-depth psychiatric
- thorough, long-term
- quietly refined
- graphic and poignant
- long instinctive
- rough but very full
- semester-social
- wholly intelligent and adequate
- long vicarious
- worth careful
- intense postdoctoral
- jaded and formal
- long and intensive
- properly rigorous
- fascinating and horrible
- hopeful and most important
- elegant or amusing
- vivid and clever
- remarkably vivid and clever
- powerful and full
- worth attentive
- immortal analytical
- popular quasi-medical
- immense book-lined
- profound and inhuman
- comparative, general
- satisfactory, comprehensive
- careful and devout
- uninterrupted and careful
- careful congressional
- thorough comparative
- wholly intelligent
- same epidemiological
- careful, enthusiastic
- plump and ponderous
- careful, ideological
- ethnological and sociological
- immaculate and smaller
- serious and exhaustive
- morally original
- thorough disinterested
- frank psychological
- vital and joyful
- historical literature--philosophical
- careful comparative
- active intermediate
- desultory but not unprofitable
- careful theoretical
- possible careful
- comparative or historical
- psychological, hygienic and sociological
- large-scale statistical
- principal quantitative
- temperate and reverent
- curious and proper
- thorough pharmacological
- worth comparative
- serious biblical
- servile and pedantic
- laborious and engrossing
- fullest bibliographical
- professedly psychological
- careful and meditative
- suggestive statistical
- intelligent ethnological
- personal and offensive
- obviously careful
- sane constructive
- mineral and botanical
- dingy dark
- dingy, dusky
- intricate anthropological
- suffi\-ciently intense
- untidy, book-lined
- trivial and microscopic
- already outdated
- botanical and conchological
- neat book-lined
- anxious, nerve-racking
- systematic and sympathetic
- thorough impassive
- static philosophical
- partially facetious
- self-denial and unremitting
- historical and poly-historical
- profound and careful
- thorough and very useful
- late, careful
- definite and philosophical
- narrow and inglorious
- ancient preliminary
- constant and superstitious
- soberly enthusiastic
- deliberate and imaginative
- life-long diligent
- intense statistical
- prayerful and careful
- _experimental and clinical
- conscientious and lifelong
- thorough but not exhaustive
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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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