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 thanks
Below is a list of describing words for thanks. 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 thanks:
- sincere but ungrammatical
- mightiest solemn
- deepest and most sincerest
- worthy humblest
- dank sincere
- humble and hearty
- humble dutiful
- net special
- warm and young
- pitifully grateful
- due big
- profuse and mellifluous
- deepest and most grateful
- much obligatory
- warm and effusive
- many and hearty
- wrong, small
- class=centered>special
- brief and heartfelt
- mute and modest
- gracious but silent
- occasional fawning
- ardent and ceaseless
- back polite
- usual, special
- again sincere
- awkward and reluctant
- sincerest and most grateful
- poor but hearty
- forth silent
- hypocritical, complimental
- highest, joyful
- tremulous and silent
- utter common
- grateful and sincere
- >special
- quite plentiful
- obviously profuse
- plausibly explicable
- final, heartfelt
- }{special
- least, heartfelt
- curt and silent
- class=centered>special
- humble and undying
- down sardonic
- full and royal
- non-fiction special
- fullest and sincerest
- intimate, precious
- welcome and hearty
- heartfelt and dutiful
- admiral many
- courts-martial, national
- own heartiest
- unlimited and eternal
- utter devout
- brief and cordial
- back voluminous and ridiculous
- safe, many
- bashful boyish
- many and grateful
- sincere and most grateful
- heartfelt and grateful
- silent but devout
- dutiful and most grateful
- open ceremonial
- stony, ungrateful
- grateful, gracious
- courteously formal
- sincere and best
- gracious papal
- more, hearty
- secret, boundless
- sincere and most heartfelt
- ironically complimentary
- forth disproportionate
- frequent and heartfelt
- due and hearty
- dumb and eloquent
- smooth, many
- vague and sleepy
- breathy, hoarse
- many and sincere
- humble, hearty
- more best
- always filthy
- thy heartfelt
- sincere hearty
- now articulate
- best and most sincere
- most hearty
- heartfelt
- sincere and grateful
- class=jh>special
special
- welcome, much
- interested and gracious
- now lucid
- crystal, incoherent
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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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