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 support
Below is a list of describing words for support. 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 support:
- significant diplomatic
- technical and naval
- unconditional military
- financial
- military or popular
- tacit and unshakable
- strong bipartisan
- undivided and willing
- moral but material
- greatest collateral
- economic and logistic
- solid grass-roots
- accidental and fantastic
- full and wholehearted
- much-needed financial
- nearly unimpeachable
- liberal and efficient
- oppressive and safest
- religious and bureaucratic
- naval and logistical
- rally popular
- government-owned populist
- blind and chivalrous
- flexible temporary
- daily unflinching
- influential and sympathetic
- unqualified emotional
- alive, mutual
- warm and staunch
- treacherous or languid
- slippery and poor
- enthusiastic moral
- little but moral
- distinct experimental
- feeble and half-hearted
- chief or entire
- trans-empirical connective
- vigilant and disinterested
- familial and editorial
- unforeseen moral
- additional financial
- unqualifiedly enthusiastic
- other logistic
- exactly enthusiastic
- temperate but steady
- is--well--moral
- financial or moral
- full-scale federal
- scientific or traditional
- staunch parliamentary
- intriguing and malicious
- fuller harmonic
- brotherly love--mutual
- active conversational
- public public
- moral and financial
- public
- real, forceful
- strong, nationwide
- obviously agricultural
- chancy, conditional
- moral or tactical
- more grass-roots
- political and technical
- little but blind
- least grudging
- improper emotional
- new populist
- unobtrusive moral
- tremendous mutual
- technical and logistic
- ally reasonable
- vast traditional
- chief aerial
- powerful and unfailing
- hearty political
- blind foreign
- cordial and unqualified
- constant passionate
- wholehearted and mutual
- undiminished financial
- affectionate and unfailing
- fullest and unqualified
- generous and unfailing
- uninterrupted financial
- spontaneous and undiminished
- ready and invaluable
- voluntary financial
- certainly scriptural
- strong foundational
- financial and foreign
- military, financial and foreign
- principal and only solid
- faithful, undaunted
- staunch and important
- effective or broad
- promising hearty
- inward harmonious
- heartiest and most effective
- moral and sacramental
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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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