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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Table of Contents
- What is a word to describe the world?
- How would you describe the modern world?
- How would you describe Earth?
- How do you describe a country?
- How do you describe a person?
- How do you describe a nice person?
- What are nice words?
- How can I describe myself in one word?
- How do I tell about myself?
- How can I describe my self?
- How do you define your self?
- What is self in simple words?
- How do I define God?
- What is God’s real name?
- Who is God explain?
- How was God formed?
- Who is the creator of Allah?
- Who is the first God?
- Who is supreme God?
- Who is powerful God in the world?
- What is the oldest religion?
- Which religion is best in world?
- Who started religion?
- Who is the Hindu god?
- Who is the highest Hindu god?
Here are some adjectives for world: whole civilised, never merry, whole civilized, inanimate cold, entire civilized, sterile, aseptic, heedless, selfish, able and usually conscientious, strange, compacted, indrical, solid, everyday, otherwise terrestrial, private and rather unpleasant, uninhabitable musical, completely …
How would you describe the modern world?
Here are some adjectives for modern world: supposedly brilliant, grim and mighty, kinder and gentler, high-tech, self-seeking, semi-tropical, prosaic, bustling, skeptical, altruistic, neurotic, postwar, capitalist, misguided, complex, whole, promising, cultured, vulgar, prosperous, godless, strenuous, decadent, gentler …
How would you describe Earth?
Our home planet Earth is a rocky, terrestrial planet. It has a solid and active surface with mountains, valleys, canyons, plains and so much more. Earth is special because it is an ocean planet. Water covers 70 percent of Earth’s surface.
How do you describe a country?
Here are some adjectives for country: dry, landlocked, oldest independent, self-declared independent, impoverished and underdeveloped, poor, mountainous, safest big, new, lonesome, woodsy outlying, poor asian, democratic, market-oriented, good pastoral, dreary, infamous, now fertile and flat, poor, landlocked.
How do you describe a person?
Describing Someone’s Character and Personality polite (Please be polite to our guests.) friendly (Everyone was very friendly towards me.) honest (He was a hard-working honest man.) generous (She’s always very generous to the kids.)
How do you describe a nice person?
Affable — He’s easy to talk to. Agreeable — He’s enjoyable to talk to. Amiable — He’s friendly and nice. Charming — He has a “magic” effect that makes people like him.
What are nice words?
agreeable
- acceptable.
- dandy.
- delicious.
- delightful.
- enjoyable.
- fair.
- fine.
- gratifying.
How can I describe myself in one word?
Positive words to describe yourself in any situation. Words to describe yourself in an interview. Words to describe yourself on a resume….Words to Describe Yourself in an Interview.
Resourceful | Focused | Reliable |
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Motivated | Methodical | Proactive |
Insightful | Disciplined | Organized |
Results-oriented | Energetic | Ambitious |
How do I tell about myself?
A Simple Formula for Answering “Tell Me About Yourself”
- Present: Talk a little bit about what your current role is, the scope of it, and perhaps a big recent accomplishment.
- Past: Tell the interviewer how you got there and/or mention previous experience that’s relevant to the job and company you’re applying for.
How can I describe my self?
Example: “I am ambitious and driven. I thrive on challenge and constantly set goals for myself, so I have something to strive toward. I’m not comfortable with settling, and I’m always looking for an opportunity to do better and achieve greatness.
How do you define your self?
Defining yourself is basically the idea of knowing who you are, what you stand for, what your identity is, what rules you stand by, and so on. This could be morals you live by, what you define as integrity, how important your word is to you, what you consider to be good and bad things, your beliefs and more.
What is self in simple words?
Your self is your sense of who you are, deep down — your identity. When you let someone else know you well, you reveal your true self to them. If the subject of your thoughts is you, you’re thinking about your self — or, alternately, yourself. Self comes from the Old English, in which it means “one’s own person.”
How do I define God?
1 God : the supreme or ultimate reality: such as. a : the Being perfect in power, wisdom, and goodness who is worshipped (as in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism) as creator and ruler of the universe Throughout the patristic and medieval periods, Christian theologians taught that God created the universe …—
What is God’s real name?
Hebrew personal name for God, YHWH (commonly transcribed “Yahweh”), is predominantly used, those in……
Who is God explain?
God has been conceived as either personal or impersonal. In theism, God is the creator and sustainer of the universe, while in deism, God is the creator, but not the sustainer, of the universe. In pantheism, God is the universe itself.
How was God formed?
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Who is the creator of Allah?
Adam
Who is the first God?
Brahma | |
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God of creation, knowledge and Vedas; Creator of the Universe | |
Member of Trimurti | |
A roundel with a depiction of Brahma, 19th century | |
Other names | Svayambhu, Virinchi, Prajapati |
Who is supreme God?
Supreme God has uncountable divine powers. This is almighty God, whose three main forms are Brahma; the creator, Vishnu, the sustainer and Shiva, the destroyer. Hindus believe in many Gods who perform various functions; like executives in a large corporation. These should not be confused with the Supreme God.
Who is powerful God in the world?
Shiva is also considered as the God of Gods. The existence which represents infinity itself. He is the supreme masculine divinity in this universe and is lord of the three worlds (Vishwanath) and is second to none in wrath and power.
What is the oldest religion?
The word Hindu is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, many practitioners refer to their religion as Sanātana Dharma (Sanskrit: सनातनधर्म:, lit.
Which religion is best in world?
Islam is growing faster than any other religion, according to a study by the Pew Research Center. In fact, most of the world’s major religious groups are expected to rise in absolute numbers by 2050, the research finds, with Islam set to overtake Christianity and become the world’s dominant religion by 2070.
Who started religion?
Ancient (before AD 500)
Founder Name | Religious tradition founded | Life of founder |
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Siddhartha Gautama | Buddhism | 563 BC – 483 BC |
Confucius | Confucianism | 551 BC – 479 BC |
Pythagoras | Pythagoreanism | fl. 520 BC |
Mozi | Mohism | 470 BC – 390 BC |
Who is the Hindu god?
Brahman
Who is the highest Hindu god?
Param Brahma
The word and place that has startled the civilized world is to—day a series of thriving mining camps on the Yukon River and its tributaries in the Canadian Northwest Territories.
It was evident, I reflected as I went toward the tent, that the inhabitants of these few huts in the wilderness did not know a word of English; and when I told Tonnison, he remarked that he was aware of the fact, and, more, that it was not at all uncommon in that part of the country, where the people often lived and died in their isolated hamlets without ever coming in contact with the outside world.
«People seek after holy living instead of perfect loving, they do not realize that we can be truly holy only as we love, for ‘love is the great reality of the spiritual world.‘
If we try to shut out for an hour the outer world, and descend into the soul—world of the life of man, we find ourselves in a new environment, and with an outlook over new forms and powers.
The child loves all things that enter his small horizon and extend his little world.
Were it not a most blissful and appropriate coincidence if the day of the consecration were that of the saint‘s migration to a better world?
It was a motley, picturesque crowdthe costumes and uniforms making so much colour in the midst of the very ordinary dark clothes the civilised Western world affects.
The accounts of the crime which had been published in the press, and the atmosphere of mystery which enshrouded the violent death of one of the most prominent of His Majesty‘s judges, had stirred the public curiosity, and therefore, in spite of the fact that every one was supposed to be out of town in August, the attendance at the court included a sprinkling of ladies of the fashionable world, and their escorts.
In happy unconsciousness he gains knowledge of his own body and of its power, of the external world, of his mother tongue and of his relations to other people: he makes mistakes and commits faults, but these do not necessarily cripple or incriminate him.
He and the Countess Arnim received a great deal, and their beautiful rooms in the Palazzo Caffarelli, on the top of the Capitol Hill (the two great statues of Castor and Pollux standing by their horses looking as if they were guarding the entrance) were a brilliant centre for all the Roman and diplomatic world.
The hand of the Ancient Master was visible in that pallid face; those sunken eyes, so full of deathly langour, seemed to be wandering about in dim, flickering gazes, upon the confines of an unknown world.
He knew all the literary and educational world, not only in France but everywhere elseEngland, of course, where he had kept up with many of his Cambridge comrades, and Germany, where he also had literary connections.
No, nor Impudence neither; how should a man live in this wicked world without that Talent? Ant.
The Professor is thoroughly versed in Meters, and is the author of the «Volume of Gas« which has attracted so much attention in the scientific world.
It was a motley, picturesque crowdthe costumes and uniforms making so much colour in the midst of the very ordinary dark clothes the civilised Western world affects.
Then, even as I turned the matter over in my wearied brain, the thought flashed upon me that it was now close upon the morning of the twenty—second, and that I had been unconscious to the visible world through the greater portion of the last twenty—four hours.
The man of labor knows the root—problems of the industrial world.
She was not much of a scholar, she could not spell as well as a girl in the third standard, she lived a quiet life quite out of the busy world; and yet Grace Darling‘s name is now a household word.
So about our souls there lies the invisible world of God, which, until born of the Spirit, we do not see or understand.
The lady, whom Connie had only seen passing, went to Betsey‘s room in the middle of the night, and told her, in a hollow and terrible voice, that she could not rest, opening a series of communications by which it was evident all the secrets of the unseen world would soon be disclosed.
It‘s my opinion it‘s a rotten corporation; and I don’t propose to ruin my standing with the commercial world.
« «The news of this marriage revealed to me, as by a flash of lightning, my whole inner world of feeling.
A knowledge alone of the orthodox system of Islâm, however complete, would give us an even more inadequate idea of the actual world of catholic Islâm than the notion we should acquire of the spiritual currents moving the Roman Catholic world by merely studying the dogma and the canonical law of the Church of Rome.
To that very tune had the gay world gone about its affaires in younger years, when the Lone Wolf was a living fact and not a fading memory in the minds of men… He sighed heavily.
This intellect, therefore, comprehending in the depths of its essence an ideal world, replete with all various forms, excludes privation of cause and casual subsistence, from its energy.
If one wants to describe the world in a word, he will probably try its synonyms as Globe, Planet, Earth, Universe, Cosmos, Nature, Society etc. The description of anything comes from one’s imagination which might vary from another.
What is the wording word?
: the way in which something is said or written : the words that are used to say something. See the full definition for wording in the English Language Learners Dictionary. wording. noun. word·ing | ˈwər-diŋ
How do you write indicate in a sentence?
Indicate sentence example
- Alex had done nothing to indicate he was unhappy with things the way they were now – and yet, he was definitely troubled about something.
- This time he didn’t simply indicate what he felt.
- He raised his chin to indicate the table to her left.
How do you describe a beautiful world?
Here are some adjectives for beautiful world: wonderful or less, vivid and more, saner and more, better and more, higher and more, new and more, greater and more, saner, new-found, better, larger and more, every-day, big, shadowy, more, whole, higher, greater, wide, new, unknown, wondrous, vivid, real, larger, own.
How do you describe beauty?
admirable, adorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, beauteous, bewitching, captivating, charming, classy, comely, cute, dazzling, delicate, delightful, divine, elegant, enthralling, enticing, excellent, exquisite, fair, fascinating, fetching, fine, foxy, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, grand, handsome, ideal, inviting …
What are indicate sentences?
1) Wrinkles merely indicate where smiles have been. 2) Please indicate your sex and date of birth below. 3) Expense does not necessarily indicate worth. 4) Reports from the area indicate that it was a bloodless coup. 5) Wilcox jerked his head to indicate that they should move on.
What is the other world for beautiful?
What is another word for beautiful?
alluring | attractive |
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gorgeous | charming |
elegant | exquisite |
handsome | pretty |
ravishing | striking |
How would you describe a beautiful place in one word?
Magical – Captivating; enchanting. Majestic – Grand; impressive; stately.
How do you describe a beautiful girl in one line?
Alluring highly charming or attractive and able to arouse desire or hope. Amazing stunningly beautiful; possessing uniquely wonderful qualities; inspiring awe or admiration. Angelic heavenly; divine; pure; cute; radiant. Appealing attractive; interesting; inviting; charming.
How do you define beauty in one word?
1 : the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit : loveliness a woman of great physical beauty exploring the natural beauty of the island A thing of beauty is a joy forever …— John Keats.
What words describe the world?
If one wants to describe the world in a word, he will probably try its synonyms as Globe, Planet, Earth, Universe, Cosmos, Nature, Society etc.
What is a synonym for dull?
SYNONYMS FOR dull 2 boring, tiresome, dreary, vapid. 3 apathetic, torpid, inactive, inert. 7 unimaginative, unintelligent, stolid. 10 blunt, deaden, benumb; depress, dishearten, discourage.
What’s another word for analogy?
Some common synonyms of analogy are likeness, resemblance, similarity, and similitude.
What is another word for one?
One Synonyms – WordHippo Thesaurus….What is another word for one?
only | sole |
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lone | singular |
solitary | alone |
one-off | particular |
single | special |
What is the antonym of one?
What is the opposite of one?
multiple | many |
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numerous | several |
various | multitudinous |
varied | mixed |
myriad | different |
What is a slang word for fight?
“brush, contention, difficulty, dissension, dogfight, engagement, fisticuffs, fracas, fray, free-for-all, fuss, hostility, joust, row, ruckus, rumble, scrap, scrimmage, set-to, strife,tiff, to-do, tussle, battle royal, sparring match. (Tip: do an internet search for “synonyms for fight”.) 4.3k views.”
What is a fancy word for fight?
SYNONYMS FOR fight 1, 2 encounter, engagement, affray, fray, action, skirmish, melee; scuffle, tussle, row, riot.
What is a good word for fight?
- battle, engagement, clash, conflict, contest, encounter.
- skirmish, scuffle, tussle, struggle, brush, exchange.
- war, campaign, crusade, warfare, combat, action, hostilities.
What is a group fight called?
battle. noun. a fight between two groups of people.
Which fighting style is best for street fights?
Most Effective Martial Arts For Street Fighting (Top 5)
- Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
- Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
- Muay Thai.
- Boxing. At first sight, boxing might not look ideal for street fighting since boxers use only their hands to strike.
- Krav Maga. Founded by the Israel Forces, Krav Maga is a fighting style designed for street fighting.
What do you call someone who always wants to fight?
If someone is belligerent, they’re eager to fight. Belligerent comes from the Latin word bellum, for “war.” You can use it to talk about actual wars — the nations taking part in a war are called belligerents — but usually belligerent describes a psychological disposition.