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 temper
Below is a list of describing words for temper. 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 temper:
- increasingly ill
- violent, ungovernable
- native warm
- inactive good
- unusually touchy
- humane and equal
- gratuitous bad
- tame severest
- capricious and overbearing
- jealous and overbearing
- strong and imperious
- touchy, restless
- perverse and unjust
- uncertain and barbaric
- keenest and most confident
- inflexible, unforgiving
- slow and slothful
- passionate and ungovernable
- fierce and hasty
- gloomy and irritable
- open and responsive
- singularly open and responsive
- sweet and obliging
- old fractious
- sensible, gloomy
- susceptible or poetic
- quick and fiery
- impulsive and ambitious
- adventurous southern
- imperturbable good
- nasty, ironical
- flexible and indulgent
- gloomy and credulous
- angry and seditious
- abject and languid
- natural violent
- unsteady and overbearing
- passionate and fitful
- terrible ill
- straightforward hasty
- capricious and hasty
- superstitious and jealous
- irritable, violent
- unsteady, deceitful
- evil, ironical
- equal and placid
- wondrous quick
- sad or fantastic
- radiant sweet
- combative and forceful
- gloomy and ungovernable
- strangely pessimistic
- irritable, uncertain
- naturally irritable
- sometimes mercurial
- sullen bad
- uncontrollable and furious
- uneasy and envious
- turbulent and unbridled
- absolutely ferocious
- uncontrollable mad
- moody bad
- quick, bad
- rampant bad
- bold and sanguine
- airy and gay
- open, remiss
- stormy and unreasonable
- fickle and jealous
- foolish sanguine
- rigid severe
- own quarrelsome
- hot unreasonable
- naturally irritable and high-toned
- much blander
- sensitive and hasty
- usually fiendish
- finer and quieter
- disdainful, gloomy
- jealous or sullen
- joyful, cheery
- exceedingly impatient
- stolid and peaceful
- often ungovernable
- nasty, sulky
- imperious and capricious
- intractable and arrogant
- delicate and speculative
- unbridled, ambitious
- compassionate, generous
- jealous and petulant
- arbitrary and avaricious
- perfectly philosophic or scientific
- perfectly philosophic
- sometimes warm and hasty
- ungrateful and malicious
- cruel and sullen
- rough and stubborn
- petulant, foolish
- sour and rebellious
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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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