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 union
Below is a list of describing words for union. 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 union:
- international typographical
- argentine industrial
- independent white-collar
- universal postal
- agrarian national
- national centrist
- salvadoran communal
- lithuanian nationalist
- national resistance-electoral
- economic and monetary
- still informal
- lithuanian polish
- bulgarian agrarian
- liberian national
- international astronomical
- former soviet
- defunct soviet
- faithful nuptial
- beloved soviet
- telepathic or physical
- closer federal
- social monarchical
- quiet successful
- new or nearer
- hypostatical
- unlikely peaceful
- euphoric, inner
- contemporary soviet
- peace-loving soviet
- loyalist and patriotic
- compact and intimate
- nearest western
- frantic and bloodthirsty
- african national
- temporary and clumsy
- voluntary but illicit
- sinful incorporating
- public, western
- splendid but dismal
- old but youthful
- international postal
- fine radical
- national and democratic
- earlier playful
- uniformed western
- poignant and gentle
- lawful and sinless
- development--political
- natural development--political
- necessary and delicate
- natural, mystical
- perfect co-operative
- loyalist anti-repeal
- parochial or matrimonial
- genuine homogeneous
- musical protective
- staunch and daring
- tropical european
- flat european
- virtuous and spirited
- closer governmental
- voluntary and honest
- other unconditional
- ill-timed and useless
- closest corporal
- ideal matrimonial
- blasphemous and irrational
- transcendent and ineffable
- awful and most sacred
- glorious soviet
- european soviet
- polish democratic
- insurgent national
- easy, temporary
- hostile continental
- solid, unshakeable
- frantic, rough
- classless soviet
- intimate and eternal
- rival, internal
- intimate and solid
- national homing
- afterwards organic
- party-national and democratic
- party-national
- reasonable and most amiable
- parties--national democratic
- _universal postal
- cordial and frankest
- almost consubstantial
- lithuanian liberal
- vital and actual
- intact, bony
- strict and durable
- outward sacramental
- accidental and moral
- constitutional federal
- closer, special
- equal and effective
- royal or sacerdotal
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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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