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 successor
Below is a list of describing words for successor. 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 successor:
- worthy financial
- worthier and wiser
- effective arrival
- therefore premature and indelicate
- therefore premature
- proud but inane
- sane lineal
- rival and immediate
- mechanic--philological
- able but headstrong
- unworthy and feeble
- well-intentioned but incapable
- unnamed and unsuspected
- eventual worthy
- apparent lineal
- bigoted and unconstitutional
- obstinately bigoted
- obstinately bigoted and unconstitutional
- beautiful but unscrupulous
- worthy and larger
- equally enlightened and powerful
- public lineal
- influential tax-exempt
- virtuous but ill-fated
- masculine but energetic
- jealous or sensitive
- rival and obvious
- imprudent and weak
- lawful and deserving
- worthy presidential
- scarce adequate
- savage immediate
- next and legitimate
- feeble and very incompetent
- legal and lineal
- collateral and uneducated
- smaller and permanent
- unworthy or unwelcome
- royal and lawful
- apparent and eventual
- apparent and lawful
- prodigal and incapable
- so-called degenerate
- last meek
- dear and unfortunate
- well-trained, pliable
- completely unworthy
- reliable, competent
- own hand-picked
- >lineal
- legitimate and hereditary
- wholly virtuous
- pious and methodical
- suitable presidential
- less unquiet
- logical and lawful
- permanent and legitimate
- thy fifth
- presumably immediate
- contemporary or immediate
- contemporary and great
- interested and zealous
- last and pitiful
- submissive and obsequious
- favorite and incompetent
- less avaricious
- apparent and certain
- illustrious military
- next lawful
- hereditary legal
- incoming democratic
- subtle and superior
- faithful and worthy
- non-russian
- good and moderate
- possibly wiser
- less well-intentioned
- next conspicuous
- wily italian
- weak and pedantic
- enlightened and powerful
- present amiable
- still abler
- lineal
- brilliant and efficient
- equally enlightened
- worthy irish
- sensible and prudent
- muddy concrete
- weak and inglorious
- utterly incapable
- gay and affable
- sole proper
- legitimate intellectual
- legitimate and natural
- less appreciative
- wholly adequate
- true and immediate
- real theological
- legitimate modern
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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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