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 triumph
Below is a list of describing words for triumph. 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 triumph:
- overwhelming, glorious
- speedy, final
- ceaseless and anonymous
- greatest accidental
- cheap and lukewarm
- bitter, wrenching
- splendid ultimate
- conspicuous, vulgar
- sour, unexpected
- recent astonishing
- strong and scornful
- splendid and imminent
- belated, inadvertent
- fleeting, frantic
- inherently blood-thirsty
- altogether unalloyed
- easy and gainful
- complete papal
- cold undated
- present crowning
- sweet fallacious
- overwhelming glorious
- unlucky and foolish
- final hard-won
- evil--final
- immediate and theatrical
- odd, haunting
- sweet and meek
- hot, serene
- terrible childlike
- darkly satisfying
- petty but darkly satisfying
- shrill impudent
- speedy final
- insolent and vindictive
- evil and ultimate
- harsh, solitary
- cheap transitory
- brilliant and final
- last and brilliant
- brief illusory
- signal and never-to-be-forgotten
- grand and crowning
- unfortunate austrian
- solemn, ecstatic
- exquisite, manifest
- gladstone--external
- constant and stupendous
- bland, grim
- short-lived apparent
- noisy and temporary
- earliest and most glorious
- temporary controversial
- curious and philosophical
- malignant and pitiless
- notable national
- readable, weary
- sure and confident
- particular glorious
- venomous and malignant
- evil and scornful
- well-publicized culinary
- prodigious private
- outlandish culinary
- male, possessive
- obscure but pleasurable
- steadfast, righteous
- other best-known
- triple-crown
- full and altogether unalloyed
- brief but quite illusory
- big strategical
- guilty and joyless
- downright unmistakable
- pitiful temporal
- horticultooral
- individual and exclusive
- great teetotal
- buoyant and exuberant
- false, plebeian
- momentary or partial
- sovereign and uncontrolled
- quietly malicious
- speedy and almost immediate
- bloody and splendid
- adequate and abiding
- equivocal and premature
- decisive national
- regulus--final
- atrocious but temporary
- deep, disdainful
- bitterly defiant
- scintillating economic
- final conspicuous
- complete and signal
- distinct and unexpected
- back shrill
- brutal, jovial
- greatest exegetical
- lastly intense
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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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