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 wage
Below is a list of describing words for wage. 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 wage:
- treble thy
- highly inflationary
- barely minimum
- recent minimum
- universal minimum
- universally inadequate
- federal minimum
- pathetic monetary
- legal minimum
- female minimum
- many full-time
- active male
- basic minimum
- many minimum
- rigid minimum
- higher competitive
- high moneyed
- moral minimum
- all-round minimum
- insufficient minimum
- collective progressive
- higher minimum
- legislative minimum
- small, initial
- modal or predominant
- weekly standard
- poor dubious
- minimum net
- additional petty
- generous minimum
- fair or adequate
- reasonably higher
- basic or minimum
- fifth, other
- minimum standard
- sole regular
- low minimum
- possible minimum
- fair minimum
- high minimum
- hardly minimum
- strictly minimum
- highly adequate
- damned minimum
- worth minimum
- nearly minimum
- practically minimum
- non-union minimum
- crippling minimum
- artificially higher
- statutory minimum
- possible maximum
- insufficient and uncertain
- general minimum
- scandalously low
- undemocratic special
- absurdly pitiful
- compulsory minimum
- new minimum
- least minimum
- chronic low
- adequate minimum
- sporadic and unrelated
- moderate average
- present minimum
- minimum
- lowest average
- lowest basic
- real minimum
- mostly minimum
- long-term minimum
- high and extravagant
- present nation-wide
- average all-round
- customary local
- steady and decent
- tolerably common
- high and satisfactory
- miraculously low
- scant and uncertain
- proportionately higher
- other minimum
- just minimum
- minimum average
- full worthy
- average or median
- minimum permissible
- impossibly low
- true competitive
- skilled and able
- sufficiently attractive
- wretchedly inadequate
- fat and handsome
- real average
- small bad
- female industrial
- thy scanty
- present inadequate
- old secondary
- modest but steady
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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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