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 the enemy
Below is a list of describing words for the enemy. 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 the enemy:
- permanent reliable
- ancient mindless
- powerful and bitterest
- fervent and implacable
- cunning and valiant
- rival and bitter
- furious and disorganized
- unseen, secret
- oldest and most implacable
- invincible, all-powerful
- adverse pernicious
- implacable and inveterate
- hereditary natural
- indefatigable and scientific
- open and mortal
- common extraterrestrial
- wicked and resourceful
- own bitterest
- certainly unbroken
- victorious and exasperated
- dear, detestable
- old and formidable
- ever triumphant
- own worst
- endless and mindless
- own, frustrating
- distant and inactive
- vigorous and watchful
- implacable and personal
- eminent and terrible
- darkly dangerous
- formidable and evil
- deadly traditional
- treacherous and mighty
- persistent and long-time
- cunning, ruthless and destructive
- disloyal and godless
- ruthless, atheistic
- deadliest and most dangerous
- suddenly excellent
- small but distinctly visible
- bitterest traditional
- malicious and ancient
- bitterest and most powerful
- thy implacable
- impious and ferocious
- invincible and unrelenting
- formidable and daring
- all-powerful and persistent
- fiendish ancient
- former bitterest
- tenacious and powerful
- acceptable natural
- sullen bloated
- unconquerable alien
- willfully deaf and blind
- beautiful and avowed
- previously faceless
- formerly phantom
- common and greater
- potential cosmic
- implacably relentless
- voracious and implacably relentless
- considerate but invisible
- foremost and worst
- wilfully deaf and blind
- mortal and powerful
- wise and dangerous
- public and implacable
- victorious and pitiless
- crafty, savage
- rival and bitterest
- eternal and implacable
- unarmed but watchful
- rival and natural
- inexorable private
- formidable and most inveterate
- worst and most implacable
- relentless and unappeasable
- eager and subtle
- enormous hypothetical
- insolent and malicious
- interested and cautious
- formidable and implacable
- clever and implacable
- old watchful
- active and most powerful
- onetime bitter
- unforeseeably treacherous
- forever thine
- relentless, powerful
- clever, deceptive
- thoughtful and dangerous
- your worst
- however unfounded
- unspecified common
- associate and current
- aggressive or excessively brave
mutual
- covert or overt
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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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