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 vigilance
Below is a list of describing words for vigilance. 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 vigilance:
- speedy but temperate
- constant but unprovocative
- punctual and benign
- keen and gloomy
- eternally disapproving
- strict and apparently effective
- constant and suspicious
- eager and sleepless
- such sleepless
- last, perpetual
- constant and almost distressing
- zeal and unceasing
- strict magisterial
- artless but indefatigable
- diligent and clandestine
only eternal
- necessary, perpetual
- unceasing and manifest
- uneasy and incessant
- festival, less
- unremitting and eagle-eyed
- alert but prudent
- constant and most active
- rigid and unceasing
- crafty, defensive
- cheerful, perfunctory
- utmost, unremitting
- practised unceasing
- judicious, much
- anxious and loyal
- quite suspicious
- intense and wary
- keen, ceaseless
- personal and unceasing
- frequently local
- utmost human
- customary unobtrusive
- slow, cortical
- seventy-six, constant
- baleful and incorruptible
- constant nocturnal
- cram praetorial
- consequently ceaseless
- nicest and most anxious
- constant and watchful
- perhaps degrading
- [eternal
- more unceasing
- watchful, eager
- wary silent
- truly eternal
- seventh, great
- ceaseless and jealous
- incessant and eternal
- remember--eternal
- uneasy, furtive
- wide-awake and eternal
- jealous and unceasing
- much extraordinary
- intense and dreadful
- keen incessant
- steady, never-ending
- sad, passive
- preservative or preventive
- solemn, awe-inspiring
- jealous, sleepless
- anxious and unremitting
- watchful and severe
- keen, wild
- frightful, unseen
- steady, meditative
- utmost individual
- eager and persistent
- severe and scrupulous
- constant and personal
- endless and painful
- intense new
- own ceaseless
- apparently effective
- severe and unremitting
- same unremitting
- hence extreme
- silent, constant
- own sleepless
- almost distressing
- unprovocative
- casual but careful
- thine utmost
- exacting more
- new communal
- but--eternal
- sleepless
- spectatorial
- profoundly silent
- extraordinary psychological
- strange aesthetic
- such soulful
- sleepless and tireless
- certain careful
- such jealous
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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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