Describing Wordsfor Punishments

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Here are some adjectives for punishments: deserving capital, maximum administrative, official capital, such corporal, distressingly public, dire unspeakable, fine or corporal, due criminal, cruel or unusual, also corporal, certain correctional, cruel and unusual, severe corporal, caapital, severest and most painful, personal, everlasting, cruel corporal, dire and exemplary, fierce and exemplary, heartless and malignant, perhaps fitting, cruel but perhaps fitting, grotesque, unknown, apply corporal, immediate corporal, severest corporal, nay bloodiest, moderate corporal, unusual or cruel, severe and sometimes degrading. You can get the definitions of these punishments adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to punishments (and find more here).

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Words to Describe punishments

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

deserving capital maximum administrative official capital such corporal distressingly public dire unspeakable fine or corporal due criminal cruel or unusual also corporal certain correctional cruel and unusual severe corporal caapital severest and most painful personal, everlasting cruel corporal dire and exemplary fierce and exemplary heartless and malignant perhaps fitting cruel but perhaps fitting grotesque, unknown apply corporal immediate corporal severest corporal nay bloodiest
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moderate corporal unusual or cruel severe and sometimes degrading often idiotic and cruel sometimes degrading draconian and terminal apply capital medieval corporal savage japanese immoderate and inhuman wholesale divine barbarous corporeal hellishly poignant severe and vindictive parents--corporal motives--trivial capital or corporal lowest motives--trivial frequent corporal endless and abnormal hence corporeal frightful and iniquitous signal and extensive severe and unusual swiftly serious malicious and unjustifiable =capital smaller precursory certain and severe severe and illegal speedy and well-deserved reasonable corporal unjust and disgraceful deserving infinite additional and unwarranted muscular corporal public and awful agonizing corporal cruel or unjust brutal, absolute cruel and most shameful grievous and cruel public corporal past austere imminent corporal corporeal or other unjust physical cruel and excessive grave and shocking severest secular deserving and not deserving solely temporal unthinkable and eternal ancient censorial swift and excruciating suitable and humiliating horrifying and grievous cruel or horrible grievous and very cruel constant and unexplained public and heavy merciless corporal mighty severe usual, corporal severe, appropriate practically capital inconceivable and insupportable eternal or severe maternal, harmless and salutary clearly excessive and unnecessary reasonable corrective sure and pitiless commanded--eternal never arbitrary nor vindictive degrading but now sacred necessary, capital mild and well-deserved dreary and vindictive angry and unjust legal extreme perhaps heavier severe corporeal such less perhaps corporal away capital slight corporal severe and exemplary pronouncing capital everlasting and infinite severe and ignominious other corporal promising horrible swift and inexorable often idiotic presumably worse outrageously unfair sadistic and arbitrary blinding and cruel worse eternal less or corrective singularly unequal capital and secondary inhuman and extravagant deservedly harsh cruel, vindictive and captious painful and disgraceful vindictive and captious crudest, meanest atrociously numerous and severe span>�capital atrociously numerous lang=en-gb>�capital severe and indiscriminating corporal or pecuniary slavish and corporal over-brutal hideous and agonizing unusual or degrading severe or outrageous most unfair harmful minor inhuman, murderous everlasting and horrible indeed cruel and inhuman striking temporal anti-capital faithful and ignominious corporal and capital sure sore lengthy and inventive unwholesome and cruel rare, harsh unusual or disgraceful severe and not uncommon severe and capital instead exact exacting infamous tragic and terrific barbarous and unusual mild corporal various and terrible inflexible but legal minor infamous cruel but righteous painful and corporeal eternal unspeakable severe or public probable eternal family obsolete always swift and inevitable lenient and severe mild, physical astonishingly unjust ample and memorable frightful and disproportionate obsolete common-law fewest severe unduly drastic appropriate and well-deserved confessional, eternal ingenious and barbarous capital or severe dreadful imaginary therefore endless rather fatal perpetually drawn-out net curious deserving exemplary tiresome or grotesque equally exemplary severe and curious capital and corporal appropriate ecclesiastical greatest and most grievous other vindictive judicial corporal humane, disgraceful deserving severest unavailing, various old-fashioned corporal cruel or unnatural proper adequate secular or physical ancient fifteenth-century severe and excessive trial and ignominious unequal judicial inevitable and exquisite suitable lesser excessive and cruel equally sharp and certain sorest and most certain shameful corporal sharp and signal swift and inflexible horrid moorish disciplinary corporal terrible and direct nevertheless corporal pecuniary or ignominious deserving heavier barbarous and bygone again capital formal corporal possibly capital revolting and ignorant brief, capital ever corporal secret due martial and strict preferred secret =corporal much corporal different or higher quite logical and intelligible severest and most ignominious brave frequent contrary, capital deservedly universal legitimate and providential dismissal or severe trial and capital undeserved or excessive remedy--capital removal and sure excruciating and endless endless vindictive barbarous and wholly vindictive wholly vindictive salutary and equitable stern and thorough effective and exemplary disgraceful or bitter sharp and efficient disgracefully unjust ancient and only adequate speedy and exemplary public nor authoritative indiscriminate national particular post-mortem severest literary severe or degrading additionally cruel extraordinary barbarous formerly rigorous promising capital present and corresponding less corporal ungodly righteous vile corporal severest capital court-martial and severe merciless and unreasonable slightest corporal open corporal ignominious and brutal severe, corporal aye lifelong evil and present fine, corporal ignominious and severe swift and almost inevitable available, corporal further corporal determinate corporal apply lawful strict, immediate eccentric and barbarous infamous corporal exemplary and notable exceptionally galling particularly capital worthy heinous unspeakable and dire severe or even capital late but fearful non-remedial lawful, capital fearful and severe open, tangible personal, unjust present, capital ignominious and futile next drastic brutal corporal much impending rigorous corporal due providential efficacious and painful down corporal unjust or brutal discipline--corporal harsh discipline--corporal further and severe perpetual, ever-present customary secular quick, rigorous always applicable certain and always applicable pitiless secret to--capital immeasurably hard arbitrary but uncertain barbarous medi�val deadliest and most terrific suitable, fearful execution--capital arbitrary capital probably consequent ghoulish and crafty immediate and most painful ruthless and merciless heaviest and most scientific scandalously excessive righteous divine revolting and excruciating immediate and temporal signal and immediate consequent corporal undeserved and unjust cruel but customary sharp and effectual effective and severe --natural and legal other horrific degrading corporal severe temporal little corporal fairly exotic same capital illegal and cruel sweetly vile good nor sufficient fifth ritual corporal or civil exact cruel preferred severe easy, easy severest civil system--capital gross and petty penal system--capital excessive corporal spiritual or eternal cruel capital more corporal mere corrective harmless and salutary never arbitrary awful temporal anti-corporeal anti-corporal minimum standard fairly harsh severe and degrading shockingly cruel dismal unhappy miserable and terrible less ignominious swift and severe corporal insanely harsh random and unjust insanely harsh and unjust apparently random and unjust promising extravagant exacting horrible careful, clinical intense neural horrifyingly unjust easy or uncertain swift, harsh unusual and degrading small, mock legal, frivolous back corporal grim retaliatory suitably horrific deliciously diabolical exact, swift routine, harsh capricious tyrannical vicious on-the-spot just unbroken courtsmartial, nonjudicial <p>--eternal wonderfully ironic terrible inertial karmically appropriate hideous, undeserved further dire eternal and truly heroic here—only cruel worst, nonjudicial stern and pragmatic severe, brutal cruel or severe criminal deserving hasty and severe deliciously appropriate severe and shameful once cruel and unusual contrary, small but certain ferocious and undeserved frequent and grievous —only greater lawful and politic —only greater or lesser down monstrous pro-capital dire academic also pro-capital late barbarous pro-life and also pro-capital especially corporal pro-choice and anti-capital surely eternal stern and immediate hopeless criminal apt and harsh aforesaid, greater singularly apt and harsh evident paternal cruel and usual different canonical exact brutal ridiculously harsh degrading and cruel ironic eternal unknown or remote horrific and unusual usually horrific and unusual circular and senseless usually horrific sharp and certain special, horrific peculiar temporal old-fashioned, nineteenth-century vindictive or unjust ridiculously mild perfect and altogether fitting afterwards severe truly arduous minor and special ever capital ruthless but necessary former ignominious appropriate and most severe cruel and severe rigorous and exemplary significant and appropriate quick and exemplary corporal or other stern and swift far greater and self-inflicted greater and self-inflicted greatest and most dishonorable direct corporeal temporal or lesser indeed eternal speedy and extreme other ignominious inflict--corporal righteous and certain disgraceful or penal painful and public such purgatorial thorough corporal immediate capital lowest, corporal heavy corporal immediate and rigorous undoubtedly severe still grievous tremendous facial trial and severe heavy and disproportionate unusual but effective terrible and ignominious eternal and conscious internal and eternal fearful and universal necessary disciplinary never pronouncing preferred corporal anti-personal energetic and effectual hardest and most cruel natural and most reasonable open ecclesiastical worthy capital brave eternal wickedly cruel stern and unfailing direct corporal apply exemplary usual corporal barbarous and most unjust memorable and exemplary clearly excessive immediate and well-deserved sharp, insulting titanic and seemingly eternal eternal or temporary righteous but terrible unpleasantly frequent ignominious mediæval ignominious medi�val ignominious mediaeval commanded�eternal relatively severe arbitrary and severe barbarous mediæval barbarous mediaeval fine or other uncommon parliamentary least grievous heaviest conceivable terrible and endless eternal and endless deservedly self-inflicted terrible and vicious grave and grievous perfectly fair and reasonable terrible customary ferocious and protracted terrible and unheard-of severest and most effectual unspeakably worse far exemplary animal heart-rending voluntary corporal late but heavy painful capital capital or other quite savage old open-air terrible pecuniary cruel and horrid swift and dire much temporal terrible and barbarous swift and harsh terrible and eternal eternal, hopeless beloved eternal deserving such curious and vicious truly colorful new and harsh deal greater new and degrading sufficiently weighty favorite oriental mere sadistic therefore everlasting infamous and cruel odious and degrading illegal and barbarous dire, dire correspondingly severe social or legal palpable and immediate harsh and degrading severest legal rich and instructive perhaps capital possibly severe bitter and unending usual, fresh thy signal _corporal extra stiff grievous and shameful painful, solemn equally historical efficient and humane inevitable capital peculiarly degrading perfectly atrocious down everlasting great senseless terrible and vindictive judicial capital brutal and arbitrary immediate and brutal incredible, unspeakable dull, human apparently spiritual capital cruel and ignominious promising dire heaviest and longest �capital immediate and severe other or different last and severest such proportionate richly deserving thine ample sufficient and worthy severest atrociously cruel swift, stern unnatural and inhuman such corporeal more exemplary more draconian excessively cruel certain corporal eternal theological regular menial cruel-and-unusual various corporal quite cruel unnatural or arbitrary infinite and irreparable cruel and humiliating fitting and suitable severest temporal cruelly appropriate excessive and illegal infinitely harder cruel and indecent amazingly savage cruel, humiliating awfully stern judicial and ecclesiastical exacting bloody sundry hideous most severe pecuniary and corporal maybe further violent or cruel cool symmetric barbarous and degrading hideous and humiliating stern, peremptory eternal nagging impulsive and haphazard severe and singular sure horrible cruel and impolitic painful or degrading strongest and worst severe and immediate swift, terrible severe and dreadful subsequent terrible heavy and immediate greater or different far-off eternal severe and certain immediate severe swift and stern severe sharp fine and other also everlasting exacting excessive unjust and humiliating horribly degrading unfair and degrading sometimes sore merely vindictive somewhat mild complete and striking curious naval absolute and unavoidable repentance--mental full and lawful severe but salutary particularly logical due and inevitable ever exact good enough exemplary fantastic and horrible same ignominious exact heavy arbitrary and cruel more severe temporal and eternal fewer legal worst criminal --eternal such self-inflicted strange and prodigious new and spectacular old and cruel full and appropriate real corporal always swift gentle, old-fashioned forth severe horrible and humiliating secret and bloody away eternal cruel and degrading humiliating and disgraceful perhaps criminal special and divine mere corporal other proportionate notorious and scandalous severest financial awful and horrible ordinary brutal long wretched swift and sharp severe and arbitrary equally severe fierce, swift shameful public severe quite hideous perfect demonic courtsmartial swift and drastic incredibly cruel naturally public cruel and harsh such milder common capital lighter and easier trifling additional other exemplary harsh and unnecessary literally eternal exact appropriate bloodthirsty and cruel common and severe heavy spiritual now capital chinese criminal indeed cruel severest and most degrading brutal and humiliating laughably inadequate certain and swift gentle but efficient scandalous and disgraceful fierce, pitiless cruel, degrading therefore temporal exact further miserably insufficient dreadfully cruel righteous and merciful constant and fierce worst and last singularly slight cruel and extreme brutal, cold-blooded preferred certain severest spiritual last shameful holy spiritual sole adequate _eternal cruel and inhuman other degrading strange and curious severe and strict severest possible further severe well-deserved social, economic hard german useless and cruel grievous personal external ecclesiastical sharp cruel proper and wholesome certain and terrible severe and unrelenting painful and ignominious tangible and material other severe antiquated and obsolete eternal few capital _capital cruel and inhumane humiliating and terrifying betrayal and subsequent violent and capricious great corporal numerous and severe quick, terrible violent and perfidious administrative or judicial specially severe ultimate silent strange and grievous swift, merciless former barbarous cruel and illegal suitable and adequate hardest and heaviest favorite spanish awful impending hiniral terrible, dreadful due and proportionate exact and perfect new capital little welcome same severe ancient and arcane truly fiendish cruel and useless particularly terrible ignominious certain corporeal rapid and fearful heavy and useless obsolete military sometimes personal actual corporeal natural and sufficient usual horrible brutal and degrading own adequate terrible and bitter immediate and proper endless and eternal physical or other nonjudicial entirely appropriate such lighter also severe ordinary or extraordinary sufficiently severe proportionately less own usual quite appalling capital and other harsh physical horribly cruel once cruel hence public probably due less inadequate fair and fitting natural or legal altogether fitting certain and unavoidable own severe stern and ruthless unduly severe arbitrary and excessive such primeval immediately impending quick and terrible cruel and undeserved final irrevocable rigorous mental peculiar and supernatural needlessly cruel proper and immediate usually physical severe disciplinary single capital vile, disgusting other canonical swift and final fine and unusual bitterly painful less undesirable everlasting grievous far heavier cruel and unnecessary single legal more ignominious terrible and cruel such automatic --capital foul and loathsome such exemplary many stiff probably sufficient various preparatory such vindictive cruel and disgraceful surely sufficient later similar sure and swift therefore eternal separate and peculiar swift and terrible immediate and visible now sacred savage and vindictive severe and brutal least token everyday, average eventually fatal small collateral down divine proper and adequate otherwise heavy proper and moderate swift, passionate monetary or other severe and unjust true, eternal ghastly human stern and bloody extreme and desperate almost wholesale new and frightening such drastic spiritual and ecclesiastical usually fatal doubtless certain unpleasant and painful less atrocious trial and subsequent less divine quite horrible longer true quite logical swift and fatal severe and terrible fitting and proper deserving special swift and awful almost life-long corporeal frequent and severe other grievous mere temporal less heavy somewhat extreme extrajudicial more fiendish such other swift and certain down heavy temporal self-inflicted horrible and grotesque appropriate and effective similar miraculous equally brutal short and severe apply proper

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Words to Describe punishments

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "punishments" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "punishments" are: deserving capital, maximum administrative, official capital, such corporal, and distressingly public. There are 970 other words to describe punishments listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe punishments 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, "punishments" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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.

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