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 thesis
Below is a list of describing words for thesis. 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 thesis:
- incomplete academic
- well-known academic
- central humanistic
- innocent and insignificant
- romantic, immoral
- else impregnable
- good doctoral
- unpublished doctoral
- doctoral
- tentative secondary
- long motivational
- positively creative
- morbid, impractical
- ostensible philosophical
- ingenious academical
- inaugural medical
- theologicial
- central apologetic
- broad and peremptory
- standardized teutonic
- other doctoral
- profoundest cosmical
- little or subordinate
- special mythological
- fantastic, incredible
- terminally weak
- entire doctoral
- own doctoral
- farfetched hypo
- much-talked-about doctoral
- average doctoral
- invaluable doctoral
- best doctoral
- french nationalist
- novel--moral
- equally abstruse
- somewhat unoriginal
- paradoxical little
- economic and juridical
- now untenable
- sufficiently portentous
- false sociological
- useless theological
- general evolutionary
- brief spontaneous
- short but very clear
- main philosophical
- further fundamental
- historical or philological
- abstract and generic
- somewhat revolutionary
- whole racial
- fundamental and most important
- somewhat imaginary
- brilliant and acute
- present mild
- general philosophic
- rather sensational
- merely experimental
- special philosophical
- three-page
- mere partisan
- bold and startling
- true poetical
- somewhat misty
- politically incorrect
- greater good
- particular mechanical
- inaugural
- great initial
- doctorial
- keynesian
- equally fundamental
- pluralistic
- equally fascinating
- somewhat startling
- same bitter
- simple practical
- unpublished
- quite obvious
- literary or scientific
- important economic
- tenable
- highly controversial
- rather eccentric
- unoriginal
- well-documented
- best medical
- fundamental
- rather obscure
- own general
- more questionable
- supportable
- rather doubtful
- doctrinal
- motivational
- copernican
- freudian
- more hopeless
- darwinian
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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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