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 interview
Below is a list of describing words for the interview. 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 interview:
- brief and unhelpful
- social or confidential
- mendoza--final
- aggressive and ironical
- equally culpable and ridiculous
- peaceful but treacherous
- somewhat delicate and private
- short and rather agonizing
- painful and stormy
- *personal
- tiresome but necessary
- long and most confidential
- brief but somewhat unpleasant
- final and secret
- wholly morbid and unnatural
- wholly morbid
- unprofitable and embarrassing
- regrettably short
- horrible two-hour
- routine journalistic
- customary one-on-one
- important, unavoidable
- uninterrupted private
- final and fateful
- dangerous and purposeless
- brief but crucial
- last, exciting
- recent and impassioned
- important and final
- rather agonizing
- brief but vehement
- many protracted
- definitively abject
- truly face-to-face
- overlong and pointless
- infuriating and futile
- depressing, pointless
- totally factual
- somewhat profitable
- long and somewhat profitable
- long and eminently satisfactory
- affectionate but nearly silent
- mysterious and interminable
- brilliantly sarcastic
- singular momentary
- mysterious but fruitful
- unexpected confidential
- brief and exceedingly banal
- exceedingly banal
- disagreeable and disappointing
- unwelcome and inopportune
- absurd and most disagreeable
- killingly proper
- angry and confusing
- short and bold
- lengthy and most startling
- short and belligerent
- strange and almost comic
- long and sociable
- accidental and almost fatal
- long and very cordial
- mute dim
- unexpectedly profitable
- injudicial, inquisitorial
- briefest preliminary
- formal and fruitless
- unpleasant but fairly successful
- short and exceedingly painful
- surprising, intimate
- gracious or affectionate
- recent and most distressing
- long and most unsatisfactory
- long and rather unpleasant
- stormy and final
- dismal explanatory
- confidential previous
- latest astounding
- formal and most important
- unpleasant and unintentional
- last unalloyed
- five-minute personal
- strange and somewhat exciting
- brief and circumspect
- awfully strenuous
- presumably angry
- long and very satisfactory
- extraordinarily difficult and painful
- extraordinarily offensive
- wholly pleasant and successful
- wholly pleasant
- sad, stormy
- terribly difficult and painful
- long and most delightful
- momentous confidential
- short and exceedingly satisfactory
- desperately stormy
- protracted and uninterrupted
- transient and peculiarly awkward
- shortest last
- momentously interesting
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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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