Method / Indicator

Adjectives

How many adjectives describe rather than report. Hover or tap to see each one in the text. Words that carry a fact, such as "former" or "federal", and words inside quotations are not counted.

0 none heavily descriptive 6

What raises it

• Adjectives that describe rather than report: "costly", "embattled", "heated"

What is never counted

• Adjectives carrying a fact ("former", "federal", "12-year-old")
• Adjectives inside quotations
• Length: the bar is per 100 words

Highest in the last week

• 22 Sept, 14:05 APOD: 2026 September 22 – Chance Triple Alignment: Plane, Space Station, Sun Adjectives 18
• 26 Sept, 14:05 APOD: 2026 September 26 – Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way Adjectives 19
• 23 Sept, 13:00 Fortescue vs Commonwealth Bank: Which is best for passive income? Adjectives 40

Lowest in the last week

• 26 Sept, 08:23 · New South Wales Police investigate after woman fatally struck by vehicle on NSW highway Adjectives 0
• 26 Sept, 08:06 NASA, Boeing to Provide Update on Starliner Development Adjectives 0
• 26 Sept, 05:51 Talking points, teams and times for today's AFL grand final Adjectives 0

Every reading is of the writing, not of whether the article is correct. The full method, including how the Niral Score is built, is on the Method page. Anything here can be checked against the API, which returns the same numbers with the words that produced them.

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