Describing Words
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Words to Describe despotism
Below is a list of describing words for despotism. 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 despotism:
- formidable and aggressive
- martial and sacerdotal
- spanish sacerdotal
- colossal and universal
- ultimate rhetorical
- odious and insupportable
- ecclesiastical or royal
- vast planar
- complete and abominable
- barbarous anarchic
- unparalleled local
- worst and most mercenary
- regal and sacerdotal
- completed--oriental
- barbarous, anti-christian
- ministerial and fiscal
- fancy and absurd
- superb and luxurious
- indigent and rapacious
- oppressive and tottering
- unbridled and malevolent
- ruthless but highly intelligent
- tremendous and savage
- loving and unquestioned
- blind and intermittent
- odious, treacherous
- cruel and omnipresent
- byzantine temporal
- tyrannical personal
- oriental absolute
- averagely successful
- undisguised oriental
- absolute clerical
- monarchical or oligarchical
- civilized but imperious
- clerical and political
- royal and sacerdotal
- narrow planar
- original hereditary
- so-called benevolent
- gay and ferocious
- gloomy, spiritual
- jealous, irresistible
- unenlightened and selfish
- again oriental
- public and systematical
- rough and affectionate
- insolent truculent
- wise, temporary
- oppressive, centralized
- extreme pontifical
- intolerable religious
- incompetent, weak
- terrible and insufferable
- cautious reactionary
- selfish and overwhelming
- unconstitutional military
- singularly useful and benevolent
- somewhat fabled
- indifferent and unnecessary
- irresponsible centralized
- remorseless, relentless
- dull popular
- hereditary patriarchical
- eternal antique
- equally pedantic and irrational
- equally pedantic
- pedantic and irrational
- enlightened and paternal
- unscrupulous vice-regal
- unrelieved oriental
- unlawful, military
- centralized, consolidated
- aristocratic and almost absolute
- harsh, petty
- intolerant and relentless
- uncontrolled and often cruel
- incurable and incapable
- political, hereditary
- weak arbitrary
- else intolerant
- gloomy and often ferocious
- anonymous and corporate
- strict and quite oriental
- henceforth political and religious
- venal military
- grand but dreary
- wild domestic
- frightful federal
- twice imperial
- open and arrogant
- insulting, petty
- fussy and incessant
- degrading and unchristian
- uncontrolled military
- usual, oriental
- hereditary, unlimited
- aristocratical or clerical
- twofold revolting
- state--oriental
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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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