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 taxes
Below is a list of describing words for taxes. 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 taxes:
- applicable
- periodic
- federal
- ubiquitous and oppressive
- new oppressive
- heroically greedy
- grievous and enormous
- huge start-up
- new and most ignominious
- equitable indirect
- heavy and productive
- extremely onerous and odious
- heavy and arbitrary
- temporary direct
- odious or oppressive
- heavy and shameful
- principal indirect
- additional general
- grievous occasional
- prohibitive postal
- burdensome and inconvenient
- additional corporate
- so-called flat
- confiscatory and arbitrary
- sudden and precarious
- annual and temporary
- oppressive and exorbitant
- low corporate
- new value-added
- total delinquent
- daily per-capita
- value-added
- astromical
- severe and burdensome
- additional and grievous
- real and industrial
- principal and miscellaneous
- corresponding monetary
- purely western and modern
- single and singularly iniquitous
- onerous indirect
- singularly iniquitous
- immemorial, direct
- vexatious or burdensome
- corresponding direct
- heavy and average
- indefinite and capricious
- new and unwise
- small and voluntary
- exacting illegal
- clunky and venal
- annual and extra
- heavy progressive
- spanish industrial
- welcome permanent
- effective, present
- fiscal and moderate
- possible periodic
- damn corporate
- valuable royal
- down delinquent
- thy delinquent
- there-awfully high
- normal and additional
- indirect national
- new and relatively heavy
- chronic, extraordinary
- hitherto seignorial
- enormous parochial
- notoriously inefficient and unjust
- servile and exorbitant
- excess total
- partial and impolitic
- enormous municipal
- new and most harsh
- perpetual and most severe
- memorial, heavy
- heavy and odious
- trifling, vexatious
- small self-imposed
- unwise and obnoxious
- heaviest municipal
- several onerous
- belgian absentee
- unlimited or illegal
- particular absentee
- iniquitously heavy
- lesser but still heavy
- tremendous indirect
- moderate federal
- numerous and oppressive
- unjust and onerous
- permanent and additional
- specially gothic
- direct absentee
- fair dependable
- many and very heavy
- moderate but still large
- lower indirect
- reasonable and easy
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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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