Describing Wordsfor Oppositions

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Here are some adjectives for oppositions: halfway sentient, unofficial, small, merely implacable, angry legal, bitter military, serious underground, virtuous and steady, warm but fruitless, ancient or latent, direct, ostentatious, underground democratic, sole quiet, peaceful but irresistible, ceaseless fanatical, now rousing, tardy and illegal, insufficient, harmful and unnecessary, strong nearby, fierce and unanimous, desperate popular, remarkably ineffectual, strenuous clerical, virulent and widespread, calm but radical, petty accidental, imply single-handed, personal and egotistic, previous, behind-the-scenes, systematic or spirited, open and effective. You can get the definitions of these oppositions adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to oppositions (and find more here).

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Words to Describe oppositions

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

halfway sentient unofficial, small merely implacable angry legal bitter military serious underground virtuous and steady warm but fruitless ancient or latent direct, ostentatious underground democratic sole quiet peaceful but irresistible ceaseless fanatical now rousing tardy and illegal insufficient, harmful and unnecessary strong nearby fierce and unanimous desperate popular remarkably ineffectual strenuous clerical virulent and widespread calm but radical
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petty accidental imply single-handed personal and egotistic previous, behind-the-scenes systematic or spirited open and effective french, imperial clerical and baronial constant, clear-cut and aggressive clear-cut and aggressive sullen and significant acrid, indignant senseless but powerful various and strenuous bitter nationalist local and unorganized down stubborn keen sectional conscious, outspoken protracted and persistent sturdy, stolid literally striking triumphant, logical tacit and resolute pope--commercial energetic but useless european counter-revolutionary violent and effective stubborn and vicious eloquent and conscientious such meaningful malicious and industrious rousing wild radical and bitter general, persistent direct and often violent technically superior but ignorant major, noisy iraqi democratic ominous and frigid unrelenting vocal respectable political secret and even unacknowledged warm and severe partisan and unreasonable total, fundamental mute but persistent impulsive and persistent stubborn and interested unequal and faint resentful and virulent painful and thoroughly superfluous earliest and most profound mute and inert cautious and languid private or tumultuous actual, vigorous carnal, powerful courteous, commonplace doctrinaire and chimerical vigorous or violent unrelenting and seemingly irresistible active open vexatious and aggressive traditional and unrealistic glaring and irreconcilable human and diabolical impulsive political apparently clean-cut seldom candid or impartial seldom candid formidable and well-organized diametrical often vocal unreasonable and selfish zealous or interested primitive and radical strongest and most general inert and meaningless farther direct strictly black-and-white underground chinese objectionable and indecent effective and well-organized open and powerful acrimonious and unremitting warm and strenuous obstinate and artful corrupt and subsidized selfish and disloyal progressively rigorous active and even acrimonious doubtless justifiable civic liberal equally remiss wretched and equally remiss inconvenient republican radical, irreconcilable insane but undivided limited and somewhat perfunctory strong and often bitter mute and inflexible petty and obstinate sensibly direct active or even passive public active immediate and insurmountable concerted and bitter stubborn and virulent real vigorous sullen or active deep-seated, persistent particularly parliamentary silent but impatient positive and vehement utter and vehement unlawful or violent secret clerical strong skeptical passive but most influential equally serious and dangerous open and influential nay passionate indeed vehement unqualified and indeed vehement generally bitter constant and generally bitter systematic parliamentary unreasoning partisan ceaseless and irreconcilable much pharisaical consistent and resolute talented and unscrupulous strongest and most unrelenting inveterate and unthinking fierce orthodox unwarrantable and seditious instinctive and avowed fierce, unexplained persistent savage bitter and intense active and implacable formidable and exasperated unworthy and most cruel peaceable and passive open and industrious extensive and deep-seated rigid, brutal awake fanatical conscientious and sorrowful egotistical and captious undisguised and unequivocal bitter and turbulent persistent and methodical leniently credulous direct, open and absolute violent and well-organized vigilant and malignant free and stalwart unpatriotic and un-american ancient and almost uninterrupted twofold and implacable parliamentary and colonial warm parliamentary vain and fierce committal, considerable fierce conservative unorganized, negative urgent and unusual bitter and often violent steadfast and brave influential and unyielding strange tacit inveterate and inflexible disarmed malicious active or open silent but widespread great & equal clear-cut parliamentary gradual and persistent relentless and unremitting unreasoning, stubborn special and malignant impartial philosophical unscrupulous and furious sudden and rather eccentric impartial, constitutional conservative or religious virulent and brutal formidable conservative continuous savage unrelenting, outspoken vehement and even furious down protracted deliberate, balanced general and spirited continuous and unnecessary shameless and malignant irrational or inexplicable dreadful parliamentary cynical and even vehement greater iraqi dangerous parliamentary hostile, irreconcilable vehement medical avowed and rancorous ignorant and perverse substantial political aristocratic and austrian resolute and conspicuously able effectual or thoroughgoing expensive militant unconquerable, baffling weak parliamentary animated and public actual but indirect distinct professional fierce and insurmountable frivolous and serious real or theoretical worse, strong solid but almost despairing inarticulate and parliamentary considerable jealous secret but systematic deliberative, efficient exasperated and triumphant correspondingly vigorous article--parental genuine article--parental commercial and warlike universally intolerant jealous and systematic sense--metaphysical shakespearian sense--metaphysical ready, rigid contradictory and contrary harmless internal inevitable and immovable serious or formidable bare and sharp aggressively vocal active or aggressively vocal passive and latent mere factional loyal and straightforward direct and hostile blind conservative stolid and open diagonal and lateral frontal, diagonal and lateral definite, persistent miserable half-hearted systematic passive heartless and unrelenting harmful and unnecessary malevolent and utterly wanton well-organized and powerful contiuual persistent and teasing useless, groundless pumped-up public serious and most unqualified desperate reckless pure, perfect and perpetual avowed and even violent bitter and zealous strenuous and weighty current, disarmed intelligent and inveterate powerful and most virulent active and criminal narrow-minded and vexatious easy, systematic naval and congressional dull and inert sharp and unwholesome vehement and vigorous vigorous and bitter strong and apparently overwhelming tenacious and persistent exciting needless sullen and unavailing open and virulent rousing religious humane and strenuous resolute and direct permanent and indefatigable violent and fearless bloodless but effectual contemptible and small-fry pitiful ecclesiastical gentle, judicious unscrupulous parliamentary stout popular violent and clamorous dialectical and illusory systematic and bitter systematic and obstinate bitter and shameless widespread ecclesiastical passionate or obstinate largest afghan timid and secret cruelly wicked strong orthodox much and persistent conscious metaphysical great and vindictive daily feeble enraged and unscrupulous compact and spirited constant and most bitter fanatical governmental open or passive modest constitutional severe and disheartening unqualified and bitter bitter but unorganized strenuous or direct bold or impudent decent and gentle fierce public subsequent favorable unexpectedly vigorous mighty high-powered murderously effective powerful and memorable present unorganized doubtless local turbulent and discordant direct and irreconcilable passive, aimless partially justifiable singular and unheard-of fierce turbulent violent clerical sharp and irreconcilable stubborn and jealous relatively weaker rightist keen, gentle more adamant haughty and sullen present entire significant political great and equal bitter and persistent meaningful political stark and sudden sizable, strong disarmed factional constant, irritating implacable and unscrupulous feigned vigorous extremely well-prepared ramrod-stiff and unyielding unsuspected violent sincere and strenuous blind and angry unexpected and obstinate main potential long-standing and most sincere rally further total ideological weak democratic primitive but dangerous stubborn and incomprehensible potentially formidable coldly bitter apparently intransigent frantic and highly capable unrelenting, mindless old temperamental quietly unanswerable buddhist antiwar vocal and potentially dangerous faithful and military surprisingly faithful and military forth anarchic direct binary fierce and tough exceedingly public and vocal public and vocal mutually suspicious and hateful ill-timed and useless same clamorous stubborn republican open and contemptuous frantic and senseless sulky, permanent vigorous theatrical silent but strong courageous and steady critical and legal active or tacit previous or present stubborn, uncompromising violent commercial malignant and rancorous tremendous reckless embarrassing domestic public and uncompromising open, brazen unflinching patriotic vigorous and patriotic local or partisan cool, persistent present victorious petty philosophical worthy or adequate vehement and turbulent similar vexatious deep and exasperated constant and pernicious severe repressive unworthy and unchristian reasonable parliamentary obstinate political compacted partisan down federal unwarranted and violent down parental desperate and unreasonable able and formidable avowed and persistent open and haggard proscriptive and intolerant joint and virtuous ever avowed local and interested constant and needless open and zealous sometimes parental considerable passive considerable and violent imprudent and obstinate ardent and powerful intense and spontaneous intelligent and literary peculiarly oblique further and still stronger thoroughly superfluous real and deep-seated violent and uncompromising needless and futile considerable and even violent permanent and active fatally decisive persistent and unyielding eloquent and persistent privately strong responsible foolish consolidated european bitter and absurd certainly racial bitter and outspoken last, successful bitter native futile further violent but futile thorough and ingenious usually angry rousing keen continual and strenuous middle-class liberal profane and dangerous wanton or unnecessary papal or ecclesiastical bitter but useless perpetual and irreconcilable ridiculous and useless strong dissenting tangible and specific widespread and violent essential and considerable special or new boundless, passionate active and irreconcilable prejudicial and estranging active and vehement natural and ardent immediate logical own irreducible indiscriminate and wanton secret but bitter strong and quite sincere unkind and bitter active spanish perverse and unscrupulous experiment--medical useless and desperate systematic and incessant little ill-timed mere absolute direct and dispassionate strenuous or effective strong and ceaseless unexpected and vigorous material and financial fractious iraqi violent and contemptuous closer and sharper presently serious maliciously foolish exciting bitter intellectually balanced essential, bare indeed contrary fiercest popular so-called dynastic down effective fierce and tenacious severest and most corrupt everywhere disarmed contrary, bitter real and frequent jealous and malevolent further and futile latent rebellious customary bitter down lawful conservative or retrogressive actually active steady, enlightened great and warm rather captious real or substantial brave but fruitless tough political often blasphemous further unavailing national parliamentary now unequal sharp and clear-cut truly first-class biological and botanical down turkish revolutionary and national present violent little ineffective direct and bold much sullen cruel and persistent sheer uncompromising persistent and bitter new baronial fierce and watchful vexatious local bold aggressive impossible further possible congressional decent and regular extreme and unreasonable bold and systematic extreme and active open, bitter wise and persistent aside slight bold and strenuous direct and successful complete and bitter conspicuously able persistent and universal again terrible persistent and uncompromising fair and direct stubborn and sturdy sufficient latent cunning and intriguing frequently bitter constant and vexatious damned eternal open and explicit perpetual sullen entire bourgeois ridiculous and futile open and noble fierce and direct vital and effective vigorous parliamentary powerful and insidious steady, sullen eloquent and daring present strenuous --papal hot and desperate dangerous, such early eastern feeble and impotent universal and intense further active open and high cuban internal many overwhelming eventually fatal less mindful reliable and effective sad and futile unexpectedly stiff loyal democratic positive and self-confident massive, well-organized insanely stubborn not-so-loyal insignificant and contemptible unreasonable and unexpected surprisingly faithful exceedingly public suspicious and hateful down mutinous usual obdurate invariably disarmed equal mutual further ill-timed obstinate and unreasonable haughty and malignant much formidable probable foreign violent and ignorant bitter and unscrupulous strong and well-managed often contemptuous cold and immovable vindictive and malignant cruel and obstinate silent legal bitter and irreconcilable bitter and continuous open and absolute obstinate and violent obstinate and uncompromising strong but unsuccessful radical and universal immensely polite papal and other bitter, irreconcilable violent and resolute large and resolute obstinate and inveterate cheap and ignorant little half-hearted further open unlawful and seditious deep-seated national stubborn and successful absolute and everlasting same irreconcilable furious and reckless least angry basic abstract serious and general same invidious silent, obstinate forth vehement secret but active therefore violent direct and eternal jealous or envious angry, animal wise and resourceful deliberate and open bigoted and narrow-minded continuous and effective direct and strenuous [ironical gentle, stubborn energetic and conscientious open or silent bold and persistent mere regular exciting considerable intense and universal rather jealous strenuous and persistent much effective further effective perhaps domestic forth vigorous official and academic open or secret main parliamentary last meaningful such feral correspondingly intense official liberal probably fruitless electric or electro-magnetic false and harmful once aristocratic necessary or natural much vehement less irresponsible such ideological perhaps successful irish independent bitter and active fundamental and absolute earliest parliamentary clerico-political desperate and persistent apparently unchanged direct and palpable violent and unreasoning bitterly personal contrary and contradictory equally obstinate active and intense utterly wanton fruitful and productive always sincere much virulent fearless and outspoken merely silent successful physical reckless and violent bolder and firmer occasional apparent clerical and legal least effectual occasionally strong forth severe former proud exciting serious altogether irrational serious professional open and active open and fearless fierce and incessant animated and eloquent little overt quiet but steady equally bold more insurmountable strong and vocal large-scale popular potentially effective vigorous and constant sensible and patriotic down personal strong and widespread chemical and structural severe and uncompromising bitter and uncompromising hard, open sullen, obstinate passionate, futile entire and active sudden and effective forth violent fierce and scornful quick and confident powerful parliamentary distinct ecclesiastical fierce and terrific violent and persistent strong and keen reckless and irresponsible direct and intentional popular and religious wild, aimless compact and vigorous resolute and successful direct and total temporarily effective steady political likely internal local dutch much violent strong popular former parliamentary much powerful little constitutional such avowed direct and violent such mutinous more irreconcilable bold, uncompromising bitter public great subjective bitter and furious always vigorous much ostentatious silent but effective powerful and useful interlineal long and consistent secret, stealthy avowed and active indeed open tolerably consistent ardent and eloquent good-natured, fun-loving strenuous such strenuous technically superior sole potential strongest imaginable violent public such mobile virtually nonexistent fierce domestic total potential violent and illegal such militant violent religious such half-way strong and regular intense private open, avowed fresh and violent also absolute vigorous and effectual next favorable resolute and persistent active and open less disinterested harsh, terrible timid and irresolute strong and cordial open, violent direct and insolent laudable and necessary mere constitutional direct regular and systematic same unaccountable actual hard unexpectedly strong formidable popular stupid and wicked constant and bitter true, human effective european noisy and violent feeble moral less covert strong clerical political and journalistic real fundamental strong and convincing certain dour political and local bitter and violent naturally jealous serious emotional almost unanimous free and vigorous clear and conscious small but vocal loyal political large-scale public unusual local much passive old plebeian equally insistent regular and active secret or open strong and stubborn noble and spirited certain dynamic unexpectedly successful again strong vigorous local unusual and unexpected own inveterate direct and frank mere parliamentary intelligent and vigorous hard, vigorous mere dogmatic gross and violent altogether insignificant french theological such protracted vivid dramatic early intellectual direct and absolute little effective initial public uncertain and capricious almost impassioned exclusively political bitterest personal steady and powerful fierce, unrelenting direct and conscious exceedingly stout patriotic and unselfish sole active otherwise dangerous quiet, passive quiet but effective deep and pervasive earlier jewish cruel and stupid much warm slight military probably considerable bold and effective stern and uncompromising long and unsuccessful same perverse such vexatious foolish, ignorant irreconcilable equally striking utterly irrational quite sharp further overt more concerted vigorous and useful perfectly mad perhaps actual stupid, obstinate unexpected and unprecedented desperate and unscrupulous once fierce vigorous and eloquent also direct more friable active and serious powerful and bitter more trenchant much fruitless seemingly irresistible steady and resolute respectable and patriotic old dynastic active and constant heavy, sluggish definite and systematic vehement altogether impossible obviously sincere active and restless old inveterate present formidable strong modern much bitter alert and active deliberate and systematic immediate and effectual constant and violent perfect and perpetual systematic political mere nebulous stupid and unnecessary fairly violent violent mere brutal true patriotic least open direct and open least imaginable equally blind strenuous and successful dutch and portuguese somewhat hostile violent popular exciting popular positive and absolute fair and legitimate bitter and implacable clear, definite little serious often violent such concerted much stubborn considerably lighter steady and persistent such direct practically solid little systematic such abrupt such stout

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Words to Describe oppositions

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "oppositions" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "oppositions" are: halfway sentient, unofficial, small, merely implacable, angry legal, and bitter military. There are 995 other words to describe oppositions listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe oppositions 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, "oppositions" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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