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 termination
Below is a list of describing words for termination. 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 termination:
- aware unavoidable
- insane and appropriate
- speedy and honorable
- speedy and definitive
- primarily constructive
- inglorious and abrupt
- clean, justifiable
- unsuccessful and fatal
- double feminine
- quick and polite
- narrow and towering
- high, narrow and towering
- late unsatisfactory
- polygonal or semicircular
- strictly happy
- blind posterior
- tragic and humiliating
- semicircular apsidal
- mere jerky
- legitimate and invariable
- speedy and fatal
- standard or regular
- seeming plural
- unfortunate and abrupt
- native adverbial
- double diminutive
- abrupt and semicircular
- romantic and happy
- apsidal eastern
- original apsidal
- abrupt and impossible
- octagonal pyramidal
- southern, lateral
- extreme apsidal
- uninteresting apsidal
- semicircular romanesque
- abrupt and rather unpleasant
- analogous obtuse
- surest and most desirable
- feminine adjectival
- speedy fatal
- happy and favorable
- quiet unofficial
- probable fatal
- unhappy sudden
- favorable and speedy
- final and favorable
- fitting geographical
- abrupt and indefinite
- obsolescent verbal
- old participial
- single and regular
- plural verbal
- reverential plural
- sudden and unromantic
- polish and feminine
- frequent unsatisfactory
- instantaneous and fatal
- glorious apsidal
- sudden and unsatisfactory
- abrupt and somewhat vague
- fitting eastern
- sudden and amicable
- indefinitely delightful
- spontaneous, healthy
- easy triumphal
- inevitable, blind
- respectful feminine
- happy or fatal
- triply effective
- speedy and grateful
- usual death-like
- abortive and hapless
- probable unfortunate
- disastrous abrupt
- further tragical
- probably bloodless
- successful and probably bloodless
- prosperous and fortunate
- appropriate and complimentary
- diminutive feminine
- speedy victorious
- darkest and most atrocious
- speedy and not inglorious
- grotesquely commonplace
- abrupt inevitable
- glorious and speedy
- wonderfully devotional
- abrupt wholesale
- frequent fatal
- infrequent abrupt
- less tripartite
- quick and hopeless
- abrupt and quiet
- strangely rapid and fatal
- pyramidal or aspiring
- favorable or prosperous
- speedy and successful
- natural and glorious
- common diminutive
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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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