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 surgery
Below is a list of describing words for surgery. 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 surgery:
- free cosmetic
- cheap elective
- precise psychic
- adequate cosmetic
- do-it-yourself cosmetic
- temporarily painful
- tough and temporarily painful
- minor abdominal
- routine cosmetic
- much cosmetic
- refined biotech
- recent abdominal
- plastic & maxillofacial
- more, practised
- extensive cosmetic
- inadequate oral
- intense cosmetic
- practised minor
- aural or dental
- maxillofacial
- unsuccessful trans-sexual
- modern-day cardiac
- >lectual and emotional
- >lectual
- adlectual and emotional
- cardiac or cranial
- underground african
- much, cosmetic
- radical dental
- unnecessary major
- major abdominal
- recent facial
- extensive cardiac
- subtle cosmetic
- impromptu exploratory
- recent cosmetic
- usual cosmetic
- drastic cosmetic
- aseptic and antiseptic
- antiseptic and aseptic
- aseptic and skilled
- ``abdominal
- surgery--especially experimental
- constructive and restorative
- operative veterinary
- playful korean
- rude but not ineffective
- bolder abdominal
- major operative
- heroic but fatal
- major periodontal
- scientific aural
- skilful or scientific
- enough cosmetic
- major cosmetic
- routine minor
- totally computerized
- best cosmetic
- clumsy mental
- dental and oral
- actual cranial
- minor cosmetic
- exploratory abdominal
- hardly cutting-edge
- trans-sexual
- risky cerebral
- expensive and unlimited
- possible cosmetic
- ingly painful
- cut-rate cosmetic
- primitive and probably dangerous
- elective cardiac
- particularly cardiac
- immediate life-saving
- subsequent corrective
- elective oral
- low-temperature atomic
- complete portable
- snug, sunny
- first-rate cosmetic
- dental and cosmetic
- impossible, blind
- major life-saving
- superficial, minor
- filthy, exacting
- rad\-ical
- facial cosmetic
- hopefully life-saving
- maseo-facial
- extensive dental
- just elective
- major orthopedic
- easy cosmetic
- further cosmetic
- glasses�apparently aural
- radical cosmetic
- latest cosmetic
- divine cosmetic
- emotional dampening
- just cosmetic
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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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