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 thinker
Below is a list of describing words for thinker. 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 thinker:
- freelance, free
- lame and inexpert
- ragged slow
- independent and vigorous
- extensive or discursive
- able and seasoned
- serious and compassionate
- capable, logical
- illuminating and original
- broad but not deep
- great devout
- poetical and suggestive
- creative free
- acute and independent
- quick and original
- so-called obsolete
- profound and most original
- cool and quick
- predominantly contemplative
- systematic speculative
- ponderously profound
- practical and genial
- singularly acute and deep
- great but sober
- erudite and independent
- sometimes narrow and grim
- honest and systematic
- internationalist and free
- independent and transitional
- hard progressive
- logically exact
- logically exact and consistent
- serious sensitive
- deep and practised
- original and solitary
- notable free
- demonic evil
- greatest pragmatic
- strong-willed, independent
- precise and metaphysical
- original but vague
- original but somewhat eccentric
- honest, strong
- rational, powerful and original
- small materialistic
- pert superficial
- candid and clear
- profound and conscientious
- pert, superficial
- great or independent
- immediately revolutionary
- deep or consistent
- contemplative or delicately susceptible
- unorthodox spanish
- immensely careful
- competent evolutionary
- shrewd, independent
- lonely mystical
- thorough positive
- exceedingly strong and independent
- keenest and most liberal
- great but miserable
- strong but odd
- remarkably honest and vigorous
- wise, beautiful and original
- powerful and strongly individual
- irritable and intense
- nervous, irritable and intense
- accurate, profound
- gifted and profound
- great or courageous
- profound constructive
- diligent and original
- loyal, progressive
- wise and original
- visionary and systematic
- hypocritical free
- great but useless
- pallid ardent
- mysterious exact
- happy slow
- fertile, suggestive and daring
- suggestive and daring
- exceedingly original and audacious
- original, careful and honest
- remote and conservative
- profound or constructive
- shallow and unphilosophical
- many-sided, indefatigable
- comparatively second-rate
- precise and impartial
- profound but cold
- admirably clear and brilliant
- wise or righteous
- subtle or profound
- arrogant and progressive
- sane and independent
- strong and adventurous
- hospitable and independent
- pascal, great
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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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