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 sum
Below is a list of describing words for sum. 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 sum:
- interesting net
- precise annual
- impossibly incorrect
- palpably impossible
- good actual
- vast and unattainable
- uncomfortably substantial
- nominal rental
- further but smaller
- reasonably substantial
- enormous and unthinkable
- long algebraic
- lesser but still significant
- complex dynamical
- organic dim
- planetary genetic
- immediate tidy
- discreet, reasonable
- direct and analytic
- standard, exact
- mechanically worked-out
- resultant or algebraic
- equally trivial and necessary
- lowest practicable
- total, indigestible
- potentially mountainous
- nice capital
- tidy private
- hefty under-the-table
- best dim
- immense arithmetical
- lousy, paltry
- singularly extravagant
- immense, undetermined
- practically unprecedented
- changeable or indefinite
- thrillingly magnificent
- absurd and nominal
- paltry limited
- dear memorable
- smallest constant
- marvellously moderate
- reasonable, ordinary
- unreasonably exorbitant
- monstrously insane
- mental arithmetical
- suspiciously trifling
- forthcoming substantial
- unfinished arithmetical
- true and indifferent
- unknown but very considerable
- definite total
- definite and moderate
- trifling and totally inadequate
- incorrect and unfinished
- certain and reasonable
- open but large
- moderate and suitable
- trifling and altogether insignificant
- astonishingly outrageous
- extraordinarily large and curious
- always loud and boastful
- large but reasonable
- shockingly paltry
- astonishingly insignificant
- liberal and sufficient
- paltry, wretched
- ideal capital
- positively smaller
- reasonable absolute
- extravagant and unconscionable
- extremely handsome and liberal
- definite, unchanging
- good proportionate
- lowest divisible
- smaller but yet annoying
- entire nominal
- whole or total
- incredibly trifling
- minimum precautionary
- richly abundant
- fabulous and impossible
- same nominal
- relatively paltry
- deliberately inflated
- vast but indefinite
- trivial and necessary
- certain annual
- comparatively paltry
- comparatively ridiculous
- almost trifling
- certain sufficient
- rather tidy
- altogether fitting and proper
- finest dim
- assorted dim
- painful extortionate
- respectable seven-figure
- generously low
- entire, enormous
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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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