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 teacher
Below is a list of describing words for teacher. 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 teacher:
- --_practical
- noble, unorthodox
- exceptional, inspirational
- unknown and domestic
- capable pre-school
- miraculous and brilliant
- enterprising and genial
- certain extramural
- faithful and longsuffering
- unusually clear and competent
- wise, imperturbable
- hence stodgy
- insecure and hence stodgy
- squeamish and scrupulous
- law-abiding religious
- classic, best
- wisest and most winsome
- holy ancestral
- practical ecclesiastical
- acceptable average
- compassionate and flexible
- grave, great
- youthful grade-school
- creative preschool
- beloved, sympathetic
- helpful but exacting
- gentle, itinerant
- beautiful sunday-school
- sincere and very thorough
- nervous and unsmiling
- selfless and able
- indefatigable, self-sacrificing
- thorough and competent
- enthusiastic and sensible
- average primary
- remarkably captivating
- latest divine
- renowned vocal
- gifted, zealous
- partisan and public
- intermediate great
- female sunday-school
- present and efficient
- constantly present and efficient
- middle-aged sunday-school
- pompous well-meaning
- human and very real
- fascinating universal
- careful and genial
- eloquent, systematic
- unemployed or underpaid
- sweet, middle-aged
- itinerant or stationary
- unusually skilled
- eloquently generous
- willing, enthusiastic
- warmly loving
- newest sunday-school
- white-clad, white-bearded
- viciously insensitive
- terribly careless
- rotund former
- wisely sympathetic
- able and very ready
- distinct and devout
- successful gymnastic
- nervous, toadying
- generally inefficient or worse
- beautiful platonic
- original and efficient
- interesting, practical
- dyspeptic male
- high-minded, inspiring
- gentle and meritorious
- formerly industrial
- unknown sunday-school
- conscientious or efficient
- hard but effective
- efficient and virtuous
- unprepared or lazy
- enthusiastic, loving and sincere
- faithful elementary
- strict but careful
- thoughtful vocal
- considerate sunday-school
- zealous sunday-school
- excellent, enthusiastic
- unselfish, wide-awake and enterprising
- ambitious and well-prepared
- prospective rural
- chief and unerring
- faithful sunday-school
- intellectual, gifted
- baggy young
- efficient sunday-school
- magnetic and influential
- inspiring, magnetic and influential
- popular primary
- equally fat and greasy
- skillful and magnetic
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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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