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 testament
Below is a list of describing words for testament. 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 testament:
- apocryphal new
- parallel new
- chronological new
- emphatic new
- new, everlasting
- public verbal
- spurious or genuine
- weighty and irrefutable
- weighty and inviolable
- utterly rude and barbarous
- everlasting and good
- wonderfully organic
- private administrative
- small, well-read
- veritable, political
- soft, leather-bound
- deplorably ill-advised
- bible old
- bible new
- so-called _political
- bible and new
- genuine and latest
- complete or final
- original new
- insane political
- devout and virtuous
- painfully self-congratulatory
- wordy and painfully self-congratulatory
- cryptic and troubling
- compelling final
- purple atomic
- ill and last
- red, mute
- simplified new
- nobler political
- utterly rude
- new and everlasting
- extremely exact and severe
- rather horrifying
- true and splendid
- new epicurean
- last and complete
- ancient new
- new and eternal
- literal german
- little well-worn
- rich, great
- unfinished last
- new eternal
- cardinal political
- little leather-bound
- profound and glorious
- direct new
- silent but powerful
- full new
- little khaki
- extremely exact
- old dog-eared
- singularly significant
- famous athenian
- curious and ancient
- limited military
- curious and characteristic
- old and new
- more unjust
- sacred and mysterious
- old or new
- scientific and philosophical
- small gilt
- more authentic
- strongest political
- last solemn
- own legal
- serious and important
- valuable new
- grand and glorious
- more simple
- last poor
- prophetical
- great and little
- big and little
- thy last
- new german
- mute
- everlasting
- ephemeral
- self-congratulatory
- new and old
- cosmological
- never-to-be-forgotten
- rather remarkable
- little red
- more certain
- other old
- more stable
- unwritten
- little brown
- epicurean
- newer
- more direct
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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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