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 temperaments
Below is a list of describing words for temperaments. 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 temperaments:
- optimum political
- femalishly mercurial
- emotional artistic
- high-strung and nervous
- flamboyant and volatile
- thoroughly sanguine
- emotional and energetic
- grave or saddened
- exalted and dreamy
- discordant equal
- coldly vindictive
- naturally gay and joyous
- mobile, boyish
- proverbially impetuous
- sanguine and somewhat impatient
- grave, secretive
- prophetically appreciative
- poetic and mobile
- constitutionally high-strung
- naturally quixotic
- now morbid
- dry and bilious
- nervous boisterous
- overweening sensual
- jocose and happy
- genial, ironical
- lawlessly adventurous
- high-strung, unbridled
- unchanging egyptian
- associate vivid
- difficult and disturbing
- volatile artistic
- balanced and sunny
- reckless and untamed
- refined and autocratic
- nervous or mercurial
- markedly refined and autocratic
- markedly refined
- powerfully sanguine
- nervous bilious
- basically intellectual
- impulsive, sentimental
- female artistic
- impractical artistic
- sanguine and active
- solitary and self-contained
- peculiar and highly nervous
- bilious and interesting
- particularly calm and well-balanced
- vain and facile
- clean, sanguine
- mental religious
- grateful, physical
- bloodless, impassible
- naturally emotional
- restless and loud
- eloquent and warm
- mercurial spanish
- peaceable or savage
- peaceable effective
- benevolent and misanthropical
- alternately benevolent and misanthropical
- alternately benevolent
- sanguine and romantic
- discursive, uncertain
- nervous and artistic
- sad or merry
- money-making and litigious
- genial, childish
- strongly nervous
- consummate poetical
- hateful and despicable
- naturally imaginative
- passionate but strong
- envious acquisitive
- fine mercurial
- warm or impulsive
- intense mercurial
- unusually sedate
- evil and capricious
- oppressively energetic
- volatile and undisciplined
- saucy, sanguine
- proud and somewhat impetuous
- peculiarly ardent
- naturally pure and austere
- placid, philosophical
- incredibly sanguine
- cruel and sombre
- hot and irritable
- strongly responsive
- sensitive and strongly responsive
- robust, jovial
- unmanageable national
- buoyant and radiant
- perfect moderate
- artistically sensitive
- sunny irish
- robust musical
- vivacious, vicious
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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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