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 tenure
Below is a list of describing words for tenure. 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 tenure:
- frail and equivocal
- restless and incomplete
- free and unalterable
- rich and lengthy
- rather uncertain and precarious
- direct servile
- perilous and treacherous
- brief peaceful
- longest, safest
- common or feodal
- startlingly uncertain
- perishable and uncertain
- violent feudal
- unchallenged and unsuspected
- brittle and brief
- brief and very unsuccessful
- subtle and uncertain
- brief and inconsequential
- prevalent agrarian
- hereditary rent-free
- intermittent and precarious
- external or alien
- fitful and precarious
- shadowy french
- insecure and miserable
- eventual single
- seigniorial or feudal
- merely annual
- =seigniorial
- absolutely servile
- alodial
- curious jocular
- entirely precarious and uncertain
- entirely precarious
- free but non-military
- free customary
- dominant and distinctive
- regular or lawful
- uncertain and artificial
- merely precarious
- precarious, illicit
feudal - entire twenty-year
- brief and not dishonorable
- early total
- predictably brief
- brief sensational
- brief and unlamented
- frail and slippery
- personal hereditary
- natural frail
- ½baronial
- former safe
- other or stronger
- dubious and precarious
- exceedingly frail and uncertain
- longest judicial
- “octennial
- suspicious and precarious
- disadvantageous and servile
- seigniorial
- allodial
- octennial
- feudal or military
- fragile and uncertain
- weak political
- similar twofold
- simple and solid
- short but productive
- long and healthy
- reluctant political
- frail and temporary
- exceedingly precarious
- considerably easy
- absolute feudal
- main or sole
- certain and valuable
- brief judicial
- doubtful and precarious
- actual feudal
- desperately frail
- admittedly ancient
- brief and feeble
- rent-free
- uncertain and precarious
- real warlike
- absolutely unheard-of
- apparently tottering
- somewhat burdensome
- typical free
- urbarial
- capricious and uncertain
- less servile
- long and unfortunate
- german feudal
- own baronial
- extremely uncertain
- brief and unimportant
- somewhat servile
- same precarious
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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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