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 supervision
Below is a list of describing words for supervision. 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 supervision:
- give-away human
- remorseless personal
- commandorial
- direct commandorial
- federal operative
- immediate matriarchal
- personal and energetic
- closer medical
- closest dental
- efficient veterinary
- illusory episcopal
- active and careful
- safe and benevolent
- apt and industrial
- negligent and incapable
- [dual
- stricter and yet stricter
- courteous and tactful
- comprehensive official
- continuous medical
- constant skilled
- formal apostolic
- careful and official
- equally careful and official
- direct esthetic
- shrill and captious
- civilized and feminine
- premature and gratuitous
- universal and indefatigable
- thoroughgoing personal
- pacific legislative
- constant and masterful
- mild and consistent
- stringent veterinary
- intensive or even active
- complete ante-natal
- permanent active
- suitable municipal
- stricter official
- distant and imperceptible
- constant and sane
- inevitably stricter
- general and unflattering
- strict parental
- official sanitary
- own censorial
- vital, general
- effective but parental
- perpetual quiet
- adequate and professional
- conscientious and vigilant
- slight parental
- proper governmental
- discreet but definite
- strict paternal
- mere impotent
- proper federal
- strict and precise
- strictest psychiatric
- rigid dietary
- round-the-clock off-duty
- agile and efficient
- rigorous, painstaking
- remote, unknowable
- constant and able
- proximate human
- direct ecclesiarchal
- painstaking, step-by-step
- scrappy medical
- lax official
- skilled artistic
- necessary editorial
- scientific and careful
- keen merciless
- incessant parliamentary
- constant intelligent
- systematic managerial
- exclusively chinese
- thorough editorial
- constant unremitting
- constant and general
- careful administrative
- permanent and careful
- strict and active
- unbiased and accurate
- benevolent but strict
- inquisitorial and vexatious
- purely non-partisan
- rigorous paternal
- careful and rigid
- constant national
- benign but autocratic
- paternal and beneficient
- constant medical
- own vigilant
- continuous visual
- special pastoral
- competent editorial
- personal and ardent
- necessary judicial
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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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