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Words to Describe civilizations
Below is a list of describing words for civilizations. 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 civilizations:
prominent andean fascinating blended closer and stricter private and complex overly opulent complex and enlightened expediential and mainly futile mainly futile medico-technological decadent and repressive hitherto drab self-sustaining agrarian healthiest wealthiest high and progressive agrarian or pastoral exactly alien western technological deep crazed occidento-oriental early siberian conservative, female-dominated dim etruscan backward technological cosmic utilitarian continuous, agricultural respectable interstellar partial or even high expediential high and tolerably stable bustling, forceful intricate technological thoughtful, creative older galactic prior transcendent secretive and hostile fractional human urban, literate decadent or decayed rudimentary mechanical primitive, decadent or decayed completely urban unknown and even unthinkable unknown and unthinkably powerful entire medico-technological superior european paltry and mechanical bustling cosmopolitan fine, rational defunct alien inhumanly businesslike undeveloped new hostile galactic rich and stagnant effete twentieth-century ancient and obsolescent great, material oldest and most subtle modern, northern false, external perhaps mature highest and newest obviously whole happy high-tech emergent spiritual human so-called convulsive so-called luxurious european introductory western once vital and innovative skilled technological mechanized, technical hateful western high electrochemical entirely pre-mechanical sophisticated and mighty native high-tech vastly older and more cold and classical grandly human and cosmopolitan grandly human fundamentally defective intensely materialistic heretofore material material and divine remote and decadent wonderful but material arid and mechanical corrupt, decayed fevered materialistic primitive and old-world fascinating classical brilliant classic decayed and stationary older, alien nearest industrial past technical best pagan modern space-age same global complex andean rapacious, bloodthirsty mighty technological own freer stable and enlightened modern high-tech new rural present-day alien ungodly scientific global or even galactic nearest high-tech early babylonian and egyptian distinct lunar superior asiatic primitive galactic orderly ancient earliest large-scale indigenous and external depraved and godless ancient and different mannered interstellar extraordinary neolithic unknown, past oldest and mightiest cohesive world-wide seemingly splendid far-flung interplanetary truly occidental alien, fascinating great glamorous totally unknown and superior wondrous and unknown grandest industrial great localized festival, human similarly localized old, complex highest present-day biologically congenial extant or past extremely mechanized archaic oriental superior stable ancient and highly complex native former joyous and refined widespread rudimentary complex robotic brand-new neolithic full-grown industrial alien and vastly older dominant occidental intricate and progressive nigh defunct glorious bourgeois phoenico-national independent, european few, modern materialistic industrial selfish, competitive distant and dead co-ordinated, western western or modern european, western or modern prestigious egyptian extensive and long-lasting rude, chaotic apparently indigenous remarkable and apparently indigenous prosaic, finite proudest material special, creative quaint and moribund peculiar and gracious latest luxurious modern refined hopelessly utilitarian simple non-mechanical entire occidental brilliant pagan complex and predominantly industrial extraordinary phoenician irremediable, western vaunted modern fairly unified indigenous or local dull, systematic original and priceless industrial and stationary unnatural and bloated materialistic and commercial teutonic or slavish ancient, aboriginal ancient and still primitive quaint but efficient swiftly modern neurotically swift french flippant feverish modern durable and powerful seriously philanthropic eager industrial progressive and triumphant degraded, artificial ancient and irreplaceable progressive mechanical european and non-european intensive and powerful brilliant provencal capitalist, rationalistic glorious, colossal free and self-conscious indigenous inter-tropical former progressive decadent but once glorious ancient and superior hybrid western stupidly barbarous healthy or wealthy incipient but almost stationary callous, complex meantime european complex, mechanical feverish, artificial complete and indestructible thy morbid raw and aggressive genuine, moral and intellectual coeval and similar puissant rural present-day lopsided indigenous and national perfect, matchless modern, complex strange antipodal complex and tolerably stable high and very old busy, aspiring newer rural distinctively rural stable germanic grafted spanish peculiar and very strenuous happy, dynamic immense, stupid world-wide modern highest pagan low or recent refined secular rich and reflective prestigious foreign ancient but alien high and corrupt ancient eritrean backward industrial and commercial primordial brunette real etruscan occidental mechanical forgetful and too proud selfish and competitive fierce and decadent cruel western chinese, european european, occidental lopsided, materialistic central, white asiatic, grecian incipient stationary new, conscious elegant and prosperous enlightened and highest high and vaunted terrific material comparatively simpler best, modern magnificent but decadent meanwhile chinese exceptional european foreign and higher giddy materialistic new and tentative western humanitarian illogical and heartless rotten and desperate barbarous and imperfect industrial, capitalistic grand, mammoth prior local historic phoenician decadent ancient back andean exotic human genuine and wholesome whole phantom previous higher particularly privileged permanent rural old and complex most high-tech complex alien rapidly modern lamentably defective unattractive, morose whole many-sided past higher patriarchal and feudal old and ripe major galactic wider galactic terrestrial human tolerably stable precious intellectual sternly moral predominantly industrial ancient and immovable authoritative ecclesiastical inferior artistic entire technical greater galactic few galactic own soulless unimaginably different peaceful and progressive new and masterful robust british unified human highest modern mysterious parallel intertidal unthinkably ancient mysterious dead necessarily different ancient technological halfway with-it withered, whole fabulous imperial long-lived human gentle, conservative greatest interstellar mpletely urban classical western familiar, centuries-old thehighly cultured post-technical ancient and defunct technical or post-technical contemporary alien nomadic and rapacious jaded southern new mammalian additional high-tech agrarian collective far-flung alien long-vanished high-tech alien galactic complex urban stunningly enlightened indigenous egyptian many extraterrestrial centuries-old technical innumerable prehistoric decent, high-class huge, cold-blooded scientifically unbalanced female and alien past interstellar individual extraterrestrial balanced planetary numerous technological scientifically superior different extraterrestial great multiracial lesser-developed grand interstellar aztec, peruvian and mexican hothouse, alien remote and repulsive cosmopolitan galactic other and far older prein\-dustrial ancient and diverse elegant, peace-loving byzantine and western earlier barbaric other localized cozy, sweet such localized unknown and superior great adjacent ancient literate grandest and oldest powers�highly unstable powers—highly unstable intense and complex greatest and most rational mightiest and most affluent decadent galactic sleepy stagnant greater, arrogant twenty-first-century global nascent global extreme, human inhumanly functional entire rationalist remarkable canine par\-ticularly drab entire trans-universal new trans-temporal greatest and most stable uninterrupted interstellar space-based human peaceful, multicultural later global overly technological techniological more, western mature and cohesive permanent, mature dominant urban modern globe-spanning beloved true healthy progressive alien computational great literate tremendous magnificent sub-optimally competent strangely anachronistic technological urban evil, western high and prehistoric entire beleaguered together interstellar chaotic and disorganized expansive human neal human dominant galactic fragile, artful scientific and mental subterranean, totalitarian raucous neon-lighted high-tech, indigenous interdependent global ultimate materialistic peculiar and noble similar superior warlike, feudal early tropical again western western and younger primitive spanish newest british material, occidental absurdly luxurious almost naive and childish fantastic and exciting western material distinctively oriental complex, industrial splendid, luxurious swift and remorseless grand and chivalrous material, hard powerful and virile rougher, stronger superb, dark henceforth egyptian sounder and safer scanty and superficial enormous conventional wonderful grecian more rationalist steady constructive precious northern new fraternal hard, modern materialistic urban mexican or aztec belgian medi�val belgian mediaeval slow modern token, present-day rude and incipient adequate rural rough and active modern effete triumphant medi�val triumphant mediaeval amazing ancient certainly superhuman vast and certainly superhuman brilliant but corrupt peaceful, altruistic brilliant primitive universal, historical purely commercial and industrial national progressive ancient and low vaunted industrial dynamic western definitely ethical nice western former comparative ancient and refined brilliant exotic powerful agricultural present-day commercial nineteenth-century general correct northern distinctly urban distinctly industrial ago spanish inherently inferior babylonian literary spanish-tropical proud and rationalistic radically different and higher fully western mechanical and material scientific-technological highly mechanized primitive neolithic vigorous, self-confident unthinkably powerful apparently unchanged several technological true galactic fractious but astounding human technical complex, beautiful intelligent, peaceful particularly drab immensely ancient more-advanced high chinese so-called western old and sophisticated harsh and oppressive more, individual great and stable rich and high-toned alien and ancient permanently progressive entire intelligent older artistic neotechnical great, independent brand-new scientific largely pastoral nearest extraterrestrial present global entire technological specific galactic magnificent material good and constructive free and high less feudal traditional or authoritative still japanese own effete newest and highest still greater and richer evidently german rather unfinished former simple splendid prehistoric ancient and stable dominant masculine far egyptian strange, anomalous worthy rural japanese and french certainly european classical and byzantine european mechanical contemporary modern new and spurious superior racial young and beardless remotely past japanese, japanese trans-universal female-dominated eager, busy ancient and high exquisitely subtle unknown planetary pre-mechanical complex and luxurious cultural and material progressive white effete european modern and european superior commercial mighty mental already ancient complex modern whole busy present peaceful high-technological successful ancient vastly older ancient powerful well-established and long-lived down technological fairly well-established and long-lived deliberately cruel entire rival strange sunken so-called ancient rich and complex entire peaceful extensive planetary vivid alien same interstellar infinitely ancient high technological entirely distinct and independent particularly british earlier primitive somewhat thin and sour brilliant and complex other andean rich and widespread deeply sensuous nearby technological large-scale technological tame housebroken common global entire sinful active interstellar conventional interstellar ever-increasing human fascinating imaginary peaceful interstellar less dynamic permanent and uplifting hitherto fatal outworn old-world entire oriental complex industrial present refined older, grayer amazing material older and vaster rival human truest modern sane and human complex interstellar entire native finest and most vigorous primitive or medi�val primitive or mediaeval ancient and outworn mexican spanish backward industrial pampered and luxurious godless, materialistic present godless beautiful or romantic good and progressive present immature metropolitan and suburban mediæval popular energetic, enterprising nearer true french jewish brilliant material wholly commercial newer western worst modern quaint interesting highly technological distant alien good industrial different technical interstellar human present bourgeois relatively remote newer and brighter curious and distinctive intelligent extraterrestrial fabulous new unimaginably distant significant human admittedly superior native agricultural wide and bustling brutal, ruthless down western particular western moral and eternal industrial and scientific critical and commercial practically contemporary new, western actual european enlightened, progressive progressive british ancient scholastic powerful and progressive modern high-pressure higher and firmer quiet, ancient early indigenous rapid and substantial perfect european already diseased complex and diversified so-called humane early primitive mighty mechanical big interstellar marvelous material divine or spiritual earlier egyptian strong, aggressive perhaps whole free and peaceful early mexican modern industrial strange, menacing vast galactic own contemporary exclusively masculine ancient, mediaeval and modern down interstellar powerful and brilliant old and traditional classical and ecclesiastical fourth alien enormous galactic technological human profoundly different peaceful, progressive postdiluvial average technological major space-based other literate portable net entire microscopic world-wide democratic highly complacent beautiful aztec high and complex splendid material later chinese rude, vigorous whole oriental effete and degenerate powerful material seemingly higher best classic wonderful material powerful technological material and cultural so-called european early syrian such nascent real, essential coarse and imperfect best seal medi�val popular ancient, pagan basically similar distinctively german high material however modern modern urban humane and rational ancient mayan more vibrant successful scientific massive and powerful divine spiritual original teutonic almost raw continental european grim, naked complete modern primitive chinese local interstellar malevolent alien so-called galactic single alien high native greatest productive newer and higher newer and richer material and artistic strange and rich happy and perfect comparatively ancient intelligent, progressive true, great vast, ancient sophisticated technological fiercely proud mighty and powerful outer material modern imperial new teutonic last mighty more single major interstellar great galactic galactic modern commercial imaginary prehistoric already unstable older, richer probably hostile primitive national other, saner embryonic human stable, prosperous old and rich strangely alien compassionate human nonmechanical present-day human high european supposedly universal urban-industrial bicoastal entire interstellar bizarre and wonderful far-flung interstellar oldest continuous entire larger new and lusty great, creative remarkable material brilliant external least comparative current western exclusively intellectual distinctly un-christian definite and coherent present complex own incomplete new and ambitious otherwise incredible asiatic or european aztec and mayan enlightened and humane high and rich industrial or agricultural high japanese absolute material strong primitive contemporary western anxious and interested ancient and oriental also european high and wealthy ancient and permanent pudding-faced new interstellar superior alien real and adequate german medieval powerful interstellar corrupt and rotten more effusive egyptian and babylonian peaceful industrial modern austrian strange high-pitched great prospective already mature old and corrupt false and frivolous highest european primitive and natural rather inarticulate once vital brilliant historical technological pre-technological western democratic distinctly alien old mayan “technological fake alien egyptian and phoenician free western occidental and oriental own precarious sudden and revolutionary multi-universal comfortable european present galactic present-day industrial ancient primitive complex and artificial higher industrial comfortable and agreeable turkish and european modern and contemporary strange and characteristic practical utilitarian less insistent increasingly unstable non-national best rural remarkable ancient chinese and western ancient and great ancient or mediaeval orthodox chinese correct and tasteful graeco-oriental minutely careful western entire alien technologically superior material and mechanical agricultural or industrial present native slowly progressive ancient alien relatively gentle random human early terrestrial early oriental high and extensive oriental and egyptian oldest european still rude technologically sophisticated ancient eastern corresponding spiritual own technical mysterious alien so-called modern modern european nearby alien three-point other and newer non-technological effete old western classical distant galactic mysterious ancient entire true dormant alien dynamic new refined and subtle ancient and wonderful feudal and aristocratic mainly agricultural comparatively high modern so-called present japanese purely materialistic almost european strongly characteristic chinese nor japanese simple western refined modern intense and active european oldest human great material effete practical modern great and peaceful other high-level many elder ancient high unknown ancient ancient and proud semi-bestial special material peculiar racial real industrial current human possible such short-lived little post-feudal andean entire industrial hypothetical alien entire worldwide trifocal sternly beautiful mighty interstellar higher national steadily progressive far higher and better earliest great complete and complex real, material simple and complete almost prehistoric more effete
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Words to Describe civilizations
As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "civilizations" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "civilizations" are: prominent andean, fascinating blended, closer and stricter, private and complex, and overly opulent. There are 990 other words to describe civilizations listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe civilizations suits your needs.
If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "civilizations" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.
Note also that if there aren't many civilizations adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is civilizations?
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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