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 tolerance
Below is a list of describing words for tolerance. 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 tolerance:
- never weak or fond
- incoming social
- grim irritable
- more-than-ecumenical
- never weak
- normal permissible
- philosophic or compassionate
- tactful and humorous
- native amiable
- distant, bemused
- gracefully passive
- good-natured but alert
- skilful and politic
- large, poetic
- royal and maternal
- nearly cosmopolitan
- customary ironical
- an-ecumenical
- generously inclusive
- inherent low
- low inherent
- adaptable inherent
- nominal maximum
- merely sullen
- comfortable, condescending
- large and almost universal
- old-time, easy-going
- tolerably tolerable
- lazy mutual
- wide, conscientious
- good-natured and superior
- amiable but unaccustomed
- unlimited benign
- languid contemptuous
- general good-humored
- sublime and amiable
- mild and generally good-natured
- nay wicked
- impossible and unwilling
- habitual and great
- broad and almost perfect
- contemptuous, amiable
- contemptuously humorous
- wide shakespearian
- purely amiable
- quiet and fearless
- complete and liberal
- tolerance-real
- overblown, parochial
- perfect philosophical
- impatient, liberal
- warm ecumenical
- fond and unflagging
- markedly low
- almost bemused
- shaky public
- often obsessive
- progressive and often obsessive
- unavoidably high
- past maximum
- large pagan
- large and virile
- certainly religious
- weak or maudlin
- friendly mutual
- mutual and universal
- loose, slack
- precisely religious and philosophic
- vast grim
- good-natured, passive
- disinterested, good-natured
- habitual british
- handsome, indifferent
- serenely impersonal
- mild humane
- calm and sophisticated
- generally wide
- almost deferential
- contrary, true
- full skeletal
- large and humorous
- suave and cordial
- large and immovable
- greater cold
- impious and scandalous
- broad religious
- mild atmospheric
- maximum human
- new and wiser
- greater thermal
- woefully low
- lower cold
- certain dispassionate
- kindly paternal
- affectionate and playful
- fine, wise
- precisely religious
- own long-suffering
- own lax
- broad and active
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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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