Describing Wordsfor Self-defense

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Here are some adjectives for self-defense: gregarious and truculent, tiny but effective, mundane and arcane, legitimate personal, merely understandable, own impressive, blind, instinctive, constant verbal, sheer psychic, swift, instinctive, military or commercial, small, useless, real national, pure old, “magical, more blatant, greater physical, justifiable, individual and collective, sheer, instinctive, plainest, such individual, arcane, premeditated, irrefutable, gregarious, legitimate, cheesy, two-pronged. You can get the definitions of these self-defense adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to self-defense (and find more here).

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Words to Describe self-defense

Below is a list of describing words for self-defense. 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 self-defense:

gregarious and truculent tiny but effective mundane and arcane legitimate personal merely understandable own impressive blind, instinctive constant verbal sheer psychic swift, instinctive military or commercial small, useless real national pure old “magical more blatant greater physical justifiable individual and collective sheer instinctive plainest such individual arcane premeditated irrefutable gregarious legitimate cheesy two-pronged preemptive last-ditch necessary
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lawful verbal olfactory more popular truculent self-sufficient mock strictest basic elementary desperate direct bitterest unarmed collegiate just plain self-respecting frenzied psychic understandable everyday constructive piteous impressive unavoidable feeble compulsory adequate pure honest mutinous japanese serviceable canned reasonable few more paranoid comic effective wary national moderate strenuous resolute mental physical token personal blatant automatic jewish humorous valiant simplest revolutionary decent proper haughty tiny meager ridiculous simple swift plain fascinating partial mundane industrial slick intelligent formal pious obvious collective accidental angry blind violent individual rational active clear commercial planetary standard possible mere normal savage conscious naval actual vague inner extreme passionate absolute significant damn vigorous popular greatest bloody perpetual military best suitable useless legal true brave general further immediate unknown endless local fierce quick full damned due ancient regular former least human usual small

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Words to Describe self-defense

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "self-defense" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "self-defense" are: gregarious and truculent, tiny but effective, mundane and arcane, legitimate personal, and merely understandable. There are 157 other words to describe self-defense listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe self-defense 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, "self-defense" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many self-defense 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 self-defense?

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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