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 superiority
Below is a list of describing words for superiority. 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 superiority:
- physical and mental
- physical
- effortless, slimy
- inherent and inexplicable
- unconscious, unmistakable
- constant naval
- unpleasant numerical
- unshakable, annoying
- ineffably benign
- moral and even social
- overwhelming numerical
- disdainful and angry
- four-to-one aural
- back smug
- new, spirited
- overwhelming technical
- degraded rationalist
- unspeakable masculine
- faint diplomatic
- haughty and fashionable
- skeptical intellectual
- female numerical
- unconscious and elementary
- cold and petulant
- technological and numerical
- vividly human and dramatic
- disproportionate numerical
- enormous numerical
- great numerical
- nutritional and moral
- uncontested human
- overwhelming strategic
- conscious, smooth
- genuine basic
- silent but immeasurable
- hence social and economic
- insulting and vexatious
- inherent, inescapable
- political or physical
- immense logical
- loftily superb
- remarkable, mental
- insolent, high-pitched
- vast and indisputable
- conscious male
- curt, genial
- manifest and unquestionable
- numerical and dynamical
- immeasurable literary
- inexpressible and conscious
- immense numerical
- former smug
- original numerical
- substantial numerical
- technical and moral
- absolute or essential
- sizable numerical
- clear cultural
- overpowering local
- normal haughty
- strategy-computational
- purely physical and tactical
- overwhelming positional
- biological and emotional
- calm obnoxious
- psychological and technical
- vast numerical
- massive individual
- over-all mechanical
- mental, moral and military
- indelible and evident
- amazing and incalculable
- unrivaled peerless
- numerical and military
- highest kind--real
- hard-earned technical
- indisputable personal
- wayward or inattentive
- imply relative
- tranquil and effortless
- steady but extraordinary
- inherent masculine
- grand and true
- secret and blasphemous
- masculine, philosophic
- particular and affectionate
- unheard-of military
- incontestable personal
- all-round moral
- superb and vast
- america--cultural
- economic, scientific and artistic
- racial and bureaucratic
- immeasurable individual
- uncontested intellectual
- indisputable and immeasurable
- sensible but not overwhelming
- arrogant national
- arithmetical or actuarial
- temporary naval
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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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