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 transmissions
Below is a list of describing words for transmissions. 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 transmissions:
- person-to-person airborne
- short, low-power
- imperfect oral
- expensive, illegal
- certainly lucid
- concurrent total
- private audio
- electric or optical
- faint, low-frequency
- coldly businesslike
- initial lateral
- extensive but antiquated
- commercial experimental
- inadvertent or accidental
- four-speed automatic
- big, manual
- damn manual
- lineal and not lateral
- consequently rapid
- digital audio
- whole neural
- peaceful and safe
- cautious, long-range
- strong audiovisual
- many real-time
- lateral or horizontal
- recent outgoing
- five-speed manual
- various low-power
- instantaneous, timeless
- faint, fuzzy
- infinite stable
- ever sublime
- easy and difficult
- spiritual and ever sublime
- philologically exact
- latter-day long-distance
- consequent hereditary
- hence exact
- distinct autonomous
- planetary and selective
- full hereditary
- invisible free
- direct and almost automatic
- fairly economical
- rapid and punctual
- coarse molecular
- fresh telepathic
- responses--longitudinal
- cerebral and organic
- mechanical, automatic
- acoustic electrical
- popular erotic
- damned inefficient
- routine human
- simple hereditary
- ultra-violet and visible
- sexually limited
- native visual
- actual particulate
- purely telepathic
- frequent oral
- confidential corporate
- cultural, linguistic
- strong long-range
- mighty, instantaneous
- disquieting final
- experimental wireless
- unexpected telepathic
- immaterial instantaneous
- open two-way
- long, emotional
- superb telepathic
- push-button automatic
- random but pre-determined
- personal interstellar
- periodic, random but pre-determined
- particular infrared
- successful temporal
- perfectly poor
- separate simultaneous
- immediate interoffice
- imperfect and obscure
- multigenerational cultural
- straight audio
- long-range audio
- simple audio
- well-known extraterrestrial
- instantaneous, organic
- instantaneous organic
- good cultural
- demonstrably artificial
- painstaking and ongoing
- other longer-range
- incoming weak
- relevant outgoing
- more comedic
- rapid, high-frequency
- scratchy, inconsistent
- practically unchecked
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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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