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 vocation
Below is a list of describing words for vocation. 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 vocation:
- rude and autocratic
- laborious and sometimes dangerous
- recent and probably final
- irresistible clerical
- separate and reciprocal
- strong precocious
- worthy and not useless
- peculiar and precarious
- acrobatic or immoral
- altogether degrading
- antioptical
- hazardous and unprofitable
- risky and perilous
- somewhat risky and perilous
- splendid and villainous
- once humble and important
- humble and important
- greasy and dangerous
- last and jovial
- inconceivable, true
- excellent and most respectable
- irresistible religious
- namely divine
- direct and sole
- definite solitary
- thy culinary
- annoying and disquieting
- proximate and immediate
- altogether unproductive
- social and instructive
- coarse, servile
- true ministerial
- necessary and arduous
- fine and fitting
- otherwise sad
- high but difficult
- special and profitable
- hard, self-sacrificing
- priestly
- extremely honorable
- single specialized
- attractive and profitable
- original and special
- exalted and difficult
- honorable and lawful
- easiest and most popular
- whimsical new
- comparatively honorable
- exalted and sacred
- quite obsolete
- practical and productive
- possible poetic
- probably final
- fairly remunerative
- old, humble
- less contemptible
- sacred and eternal
- perilous and arduous
- dead, monotonous
- respectable, genteel
- dull and respectable
- definite and continuous
- innocent and useful
- potential religious
- high feminine
- worthy religious
- special and privileged
- complete and normal
- new civilian
- thy moral
- such prosaic
- truly commendable
- once humble
- necessary and useful
- good outdoor
- important and great
- ordinary peaceful
- beautiful and terrible
- harmless religious
- noble and sacred
- unelected
- sometimes dangerous
- finest and noblest
- real essential
- own agreeable
- less eligible
- utterly wrong
- true and high
- pleasant and harmless
- special and separate
- thy sublime
- thy natural
- old episcopal
- relatively harmless
- true missionary
- peculiar intellectual
- more exceptional
- serious and solemn
- more terrestrial
- more unmistakable
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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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