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 physicists
Below is a list of describing words for the physicists. 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 physicists:
- wild theoretical
- well-known nuclear
- venerable, whiskered
- proud japanese
- greatest hyper
- other relativistic
- eminent nuclear
- renowned stellar
- reputable nuclear
- young theoretical
- self-taught nuclear
- finest nuclear
- young nuclear
- foremost mathematical
- grave, pedantic
- top-level nuclear
- dear clumsy
- competent nuclear
- restless and sensitive
- least bold
- dour japanese
- little-known nuclear
- conscientiously thoughtful
- first-rate solid-state
- archetypal theoretical
- completely responsible and trustworthy
- spindly theoretical
- pre-eminent theoretical
- petite, brilliant
- talented nuclear
- lusty canadian
- eminent but impulsive
- painstaking, mathematical
- perfect and most glorious
- bearded senior
- eccentric former
- german theoretical
- important nuclear
- japanese nuclear
- eminent mathematical
- italian and soviet
- world-class high-energy
- most temporal
- fresh postdoctoral
- big-name theoretical
- swedish theoretical
- top theoretical
- multidimensionally famous
- prominent theoretical
- gorgeous nuclear
- black nuclear
- renowned theoretical
- eral top
- foremost nuclear
- able mathematical
- world-famous nuclear
- sharp theoretical
- well-known atomic
- exclusively senior
- australian super
- human theoretical
- university-educated nuclear
- modern solar
- quiet and methodical
- brilliant and equally eccentric
- asian-american nuclear
- plump but hard-boiled
- top nuclear
- few theoretical
- otherwise reputable
- brilliant chinese
- completely responsible
- energetic and ingenious
- eminent swedish
- senior mathematical
- brilliant nuclear
- other nuclear
- greatest experimental
- already beleaguered
- short nuclear
- >mathematical
- brilliant theoretical
- mathe-matical
- prominent nuclear
- eminent theoretical
- many virginal
- acute and practical
- unknown hungarian
- former eminent
- several nuclear
- addled old
- best nuclear
- nineteenth-century german
- bright and articulate
- famous mathematical
- balding, bearded
- young junior
- better experimental
- middle-aged, bearded
- next famous
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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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