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 witnessed
Below is a list of describing words for witnessed. 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 witnessed:
- bare false
- unwilling momentary
- immaculate and unimpeachable
- corrupt or malicious
- incorruptible and reliable
- totally incorruptible and reliable
- silent and pained
- independent and discerning
- voluminous and intimate
- contradictory and untrustworthy
- mute and invisible
- eloquent false
- honorable and unimpeachable
- peculiarly honorable and unimpeachable
- peculiarly honorable
- bold remotest
- substantially intelligent
- unseen and envious
- immovable, sceptical
- interested false
- last thespian
- valuable and eccentric
- mute and wistful
- reckless, spirited
- insidious false
- pained and silent
- ghastly mute
- damned restless
- mute, incontrovertible
- faithful, honorable
- serious and adequate
- second and chief
- important but reluctant
- dry and reluctant
- inseparable, incorruptible
- authoritative primitive
- blind and unmindful
- unimpeachable and disinterested
- apparently unimpeachable and disinterested
- sufficient, reputable
- silent wild-eyed
- faithful and unswerving
- new and rather unwilling
- competent and most sufficient
- unequivocal and important
- immediate unanalyzed
- perpetual prophetical
- incidental but most powerful
- ocular and frequent
- insufficient or inadequate
- consistent and fearless
- fervent and immediate
- intelligent or effective
- apparently truthful and candid
- mute and unsuspecting
- partial, incredible
- honest and otherwise reliable
- present and convincing
- credible and most valuable
- cruel and silent
- irrefutable, steadfast
- public and dreadful
- reliable professional
- totally incorruptible
- stubble mute
- mute and somber
- juvenile chief
- reliable -ing
- stable, reliable
- mute and unthinking
- silent but indisputable
- utterly vicious and incapable
- unwelcome and frantic
- impersonal, honest
- majestic and indisputable
- indifferent or uninterested
- illustrious and significant
- better providential
- distinctive and incomparable
- independent higher
- respectable--capital
- highly respectable--capital
- effectively convincing
- subtle and indisputable
- terrible and inseparable
- false but fatal
- capable and insistent
- heroic and uncompromising
- potent and trustworthy
- present rebuttal
- principal or casual
- accidental and most unwilling
- bare unimpeachable
- crucial eleventh-hour
- capital and fatal
- trustworthy and safer
- mute and piteous
- ardent and observant
- probably unseen
- silent and probably unseen
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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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