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 transaction
Below is a list of describing words for transaction. 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 transaction:
- straightforward commercial
- short, illicit
- profitable and sensible
- foregone or subsequent
- least, disreputable
- recent usurious
- iniquitous, piratical
- scandalous and abominable
- pitiful and mean-spirited
- gross and extraordinary
- bloody and shocking
- old but doubtful
- strange and disgraceful
- scarcely defensible
- aimless and absurd
- swift, uncomplicated
- entirely free-market
- real, recent
- horrible and venal
- past fraudulent
- solemn federal
- politically ill-advised and hazardous
- politically ill-advised
- whole fiendish
- traceable electronic
- loathsome commercial
- entirely private and secret
- particularly legal
- thoroughly speculative
- daring and piratical
- awful judicial
- amusing and easiest
- whole synodal
- proper, fair
- fictitious and shadowy
- remarkable symbolical
- illicit and mischievous
- profligate and odious
- other usurious
- strange financial
- slight monetary
- aforesaid single
- peculiarly sharp and dishonest
- perfectly regular and legal
- unhappy and barbarous
- rapid and diligent
- tortuous, crooked
- fortuitous and informal
- lawful, laudable and necessary
- humiliating and scarcely defensible
- intricately dangerous
- famous judicial
- memorable judicial
- ordinary or pleasant
- ridiculous notarial
- amusing financial
- odd financial
- mysterious, sacred
- whole gravitational
- real and corporeal
- ill-advised and hazardous
- unlawful political
- separate pecuniary
- private and illegal
- electronic financial
- extremely delicate and profitable
- single aboveboard
- extremely large and lucrative
- silent commercial
- wholly normal and self-explanatory
- major anomalous
- goddamned financial
- bold illegal
- weird economic
- subtle and beautifully balanced
- game-theoretical
- regular game-theoretical
- uniformly noble
- utterly scandalous
- equally limited and imperfect
- essentially ridiculous
- social federal
- horrible and unjustifiable
- illegal ecclesiastical
- subtle and criminal
- legal or semi-legal
- unhappy and scandalous
- ill-advised and malicious
- commercial or legal
- earliest financial
- sharp and dishonest
- futile and unprofitable
- mischievous mental
- singularly profitable
- dark and atrocious
- entire corrupt
- specific international
- dishonest or corrupt
- utterly illegal and immoral
- particularly large and notable
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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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