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 orator
Below is a list of describing words for the orator. 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 orator:
- poor forensic
- venerable and impassioned
- mighty and fiery
- great and discerning
- effective forensic
- terrible and picturesque
- vigorous and very persuasive
- nervous and striking
- little impassioned
- finely mobile
- persuasive parliamentary
- ready impromptu
- fraudulently plausible
- ardent and elegant
- skillful and charming
- vehement and fluent
- more costive
- eloquent and classical
- safe, unerring
- orthodox and eloquent
- eminent athenian
- pale bilious
- insolent pragmatical
- diffuse, obscure
- consummate and incomparable
- consequential and egotistic
- sonorous and declamatory
- divine and eloquent
- impassioned colored
- profound and courageous
- enthusiastic and progressive
- french atheist
- high-priced reverential
- versatile and ready
- extremely popular and effective
- able and dramatic
- cunning, popular
- gifted, natural
- vain and self-conceited
- famous forensic
- fervent but unsuccessful
- average populist
- widest famed
- talented spanish
- lofty and magnetic
- patriotic and impulsive
- fearfully effective
- defiant revolutionary
- mere flamboyant
- perhaps incorruptible
- fluent and rather captivating
- gifted and practised
- highly gifted and practised
- aspiring or subservient
- conventional popular
- pretentious and ridiculous
- glib and dangerous
- rival athenian
- impressive teetotal
- impassioned, patriotic
- admirable romantic
- especial and distinctive
- quite peerless
- passionate and lucid
- powerful, persuasive
- passionate and sometimes savage
- formidable populist
- next pompous
- popular and fiery
- monotonous and colorless
- inflammatory public
- unusually eloquent
- invincible young
- eloquent anti-slavery
- practical, forceful
- eloquent and fearless
- foremost forensic
- grand and popular
- effective and elegant
- conspicuous anti-slavery
- renowned grecian
- finest and most eloquent
- eloquent popular
- ridiculous political
- passionate, stormy
- fair parliamentary
- glib and forceful
- blatant, pompous
- neat and cunning
- famous after-dinner
- powerful and most impressive
- personally pure
- marvellously concise
- impassioned and terrible
- elegant and effective
- graceful and powerful
- finest parliamentary
- greatest liberal
- well-known after-dinner
- great, remarkable
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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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