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 tribe
Below is a list of describing words for tribe. 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 tribe:
- turrbal
- unprofitable and disreputable
- formerly quiescent
- incestuous feline
- vast and fierce
- directly eligible
- usually rival
- individual neanderthal
- offputtingly bleak
- quaint savage
- hopeless, sallow
- chief tawny
- important pagan
- assoubal
- happiest and most wealthy
- primitive amazonian
- bizarre self-contained
- primitive and obscure
- extremely primitive and obscure
- subordinate and successive
- insignificant and peaceful
- hitherto insignificant and peaceful
- mysterious nomadic
- traditional and unquestioned
- sadistic and barbaric
- unbelievably monstrous
- foul and puny
- fourth pastoral
- savage and lazy
- thoroughly savage and lazy
- hostile or absolutely unknown
- patripotestal and patrilineal
- purely patripotestal
- purely patripotestal and patrilineal
- peaceable pastoral
- once powerful and populous
- last germanic
- warlike and very remote
- small and militant
- lawless, vagrant
- sacerdotal and literary
- quiet and hospitable
- dull but indispensable
- warlike energetic
- lone rebellious
- awful savage
- bloody and deceitful
- powerful and dominant
- whole feline
- awal
- usually stupid
- gray, anonymous
- nearby hostile
- obscure amazonian
- nomadic, stone-age
- large, powerful and successful
- fearless, warlike
- poor and marginal
- fierce and potent
- minor coastal
- remarkably hygienic
- inferior and barbarous
- typical mutant
- vaigal
- jewish independent
- unknown tartar
- powerful and hitherto hostile
- calmly perfect
- inhumanly old and gray
- inhumanly old
- wretched maritime
- mattoal
- mythical burgundian
- maybe hostile
- brave, numerous and warlike
- peculiarly exclusive
- extinct tartar
- light-hearted but restless
- sparse and ignorant
- degenerate, worn-out
- pacific and hospitable
- powerful truculent
- little, hostile
- once-distinct
- powerful and extremely fierce
- proverbially hostile
- troublesome criminal
- rather ambulatory
- primitive brazilian
- especially fierce and warlike
- numerous and treacherous
- numerous and pernicious
- war-like and brave
- adventurous nomadic
- friendly savage
- whole back-door
- powerful vandal
- pseudo-brahmanical
- brahmanical or pseudo-brahmanical
- human feline
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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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