Describing Wordsfor Misuses

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Here are some adjectives for misuses: cynical and terrible, unintentional and humorous, basic malign, usually tautological, local extraordinary, accidental or even deliberate, profane, vile, arbitrary and ruthless, later ethnological, specially flagrant, continually wider, narrow and trivial, unprofitable and unsatisfactory, private or professional, foolish and wasteful, common and cheap, harsh and tyrannical, probably pure, common, vulgar, tautological, political and judicial, past or present, particularly vicious, more conspicuous, such wise, culpable, blatant, such gross, flagrant, unjustifiable. You can get the definitions of these misuses adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to misuses (and find more here).

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Words to Describe misuses

Below is a list of describing words for misuses. 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 misuses:

cynical and terrible unintentional and humorous basic malign usually tautological local extraordinary accidental or even deliberate profane, vile arbitrary and ruthless later ethnological specially flagrant continually wider narrow and trivial unprofitable and unsatisfactory private or professional foolish and wasteful common and cheap harsh and tyrannical probably pure common, vulgar tautological political and judicial past or present particularly vicious
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more conspicuous such wise culpable blatant such gross flagrant unjustifiable such frightful gross such sad much physical lax plebeian adulterous wasteful criminal ethnological prevalent cynical much good unintentional vehicular deliberate negligent paradoxical shameful journalistic malign crass inevitable arbitrary infrequent tyrannical large-scale mendacious more common widespread tiniest unprofitable daring far worse ignorant blasphemous sacrilegious profligate palpable specious careless intolerable heinous subconscious sad reckless playful scandalous systematic fraudulent egregious unsatisfactory willful villainous sexual purposeful gravest conspicuous wayward extravagant passive arid premature brutal humorous comic accidental wider obscene patriotic scarce lengthy wholesale further frightful grotesque possible vulgar foolish phenomenal constant specific absurd despicable obstinate mischievous appalling extensive ruthless trivial foul vile harsh grievous frequent obvious wicked terrible atrocious tragic selfish devastating dreadful profane detestable startling perverse excessive extraordinary judicial cruel bold similar facile wanton industrial outrageous least disastrous treacherous convenient occasional hideous strange singular monstrous common correct tropical vicious considerable more or less popular fantastic fearful professional conventional horrible unfortunate perpetual horrid modern latest peculiar sheer earliest abominable human fatal double complete clever wise simple past violent permanent absolute worse casual utter physical cheap african well-known potential interesting private curious present major general mysterious apparent literary biggest temporary narrow evil rude regular stupid serious pure political less short long clear massive various single entire more

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Words to Describe misuses

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "misuses" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "misuses" are: cynical and terrible, unintentional and humorous, basic malign, usually tautological, and local extraordinary. There are 219 other words to describe misuses listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe misuses 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, "misuses" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many misuses 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 misuses?

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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