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 worker
Below is a list of describing words for worker. 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 worker:
- electronic
- largely unskilled
- defective
- tedious hard
- self-denial and hard
- unnecessary servile
- other audiovisual
- tedious, exacting
- capital preliminary
- downright hard
- hardest, dirtiest
- troublesome and awkward
- excessively fancy
- slovenly foreign
- dirtiest and hardest
- wooden filigree
- incessant hard
- persistent hard
- slow and tough
- latest choral
- simple and tedious
- feverish and happy
- mercifully swift and horrible
- finest and nicest
- charming and most illustrious
- brilliant, tireless
- unremitting hard
- finer modern
- dainty pen-and-ink
- much uphill
- rewarding hard
- heavy ecological
- difficult and baffling
- blithe and busy
- large and well-illustrated
- much hard
- honest hard
- domestic or civic
- good and sometimes superb
- mysterious, wry
- long, arduous and dangerous
- old and past
- just tedious
- slow, disheartening
- faithful, hard
- simplest and heaviest
- sincere and surest
- notable and very brilliant
- hard or daring
- cheap and dishonest
- rather dizzy
- actual dirty
- smooth and masterful
- weary, uphill
- undercover social
- further dirty
- stocky mayan
- later restorative
- honest and reasonably competent
- such provost-marshal
- diligent and continuous
- special corporal
- disproportionately arduous
- previous diligent
- basically undercover
- miscellaneous and ephemeral
- routine literary
- open filigree
- sensible and instructive
- graphic or sculptural
- pictorial, graphic or sculptural
- hard and continuous
- effective interactive
- routine clerical
- dramatic or musical
- spanish civilian
- bitchy hard
- genuine hard
- basic, day-to-day
- additional or recent
- self-denial, diligent
- marginally reputable
- genteel charitable
- choicest weird
- dirty and hateful
- fancy decorative
- initial dirty
- best telegraphic
- immature and feverish
- endless fancy
- progressive and valuable
- necessary but unpopular
- somewhat uphill
- descriptive and practical
- rich miniature
- ornamental filigree
- ill-fitting, insincere
- dangerous and necessary
- sheer hard
- medicanical
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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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