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 suicide
Below is a list of describing words for suicide. 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 suicide:
- instantaneous and painless
- obscene and senseless
- supply painless
- atrocious moral
- slow, mutual
- painful but noteworthy
- messy and very public
- spectacular and public
- opportunities--financial
- fewer opportunities--financial
- however frequent
- perpetual and ineffectual
- particularly untidy
- slow and highly improbable
- itreal
- gruesome and unaccountable
- huge mutual
- “real, actual
- infirm, honorable
- religious but also intellectual
- voluntary, willing
- culpable and aimless
- sane deliberate
- ridiculous and declamatory
- unwitting moral
- generous but fatal
- reflective would-be
- unforgettable old
- voluntary and universal
- simply deliberate
- panacea--universal
- deliberate social
- purely insane
- perhaps racial
- such cannibalistic
- few preferred
- gradual and deliberate
- previous ritual
- deadly double
- magnificent stellar
- probably quick
- unequivo\-cal
- new spectacular
- eventual successful
- perfectly good and painless
- straightforward deceptive
- seppuku�ritual
- great and unforgettable
- war--only radioactive
- artistically interesting
- senseless oedipal
- especially desperate and cunning
- worth academic
- irrevocable political
- gothically glamorous
- \iritual
- contrite ritual
- blind spiritual
- simply slow
- practically political
- national penal
- extra tragic
- fewer opportunities—financial
- opportunities—financial
- fewer opportunities�financial
- opportunities�financial
- potential but incompetent
- own unnecessary
- brief but poignant
- simultaneous universal
- desperate would-be
- plain out-and-out
- direct and voluntary
- distressing and fatal
- recent double
- outright political
- wasteful, self-indulgent
- incoherent, unsigned
- good and painless
- cruel and amoral
- i>ritual
- lone fanatical
- crazy last-ditch
- �ethical
- drawn-out mutual
- bloody ritual
- accidental double
- seppuku—ritual
- quiet and inevitable
- glorious youthful
- sure spiritual
- consequently possible
- doctrinal and ecclesiastical
- stonagal
- immense co-operative
- most frequent
- deliberate and malicious
- own aborted
- would-be teenage
- ghastly slow
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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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