Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
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Words to Describe abuse
Below is a list of describing words for abuse. 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 abuse:
- calculatingly vicious
- virile and eloquent
- probably verbal
- physical or sexual
- worst verbal
- pernicious and intolerable
- forthright personal
- mere palpable
- ongoing emotional
- sexual or physical
- impious and inveterate
- ethical and unconscionable
- vindictive and shameless
- inappropriate and harmful
- physical or verbal
- unusual or intentional
- satanic ritual
- outspoken or bitter
- emotional, dramatic
- unceasing and virulent
- shrill, unheeded
- wonderfully expressive and truthful
- emotional and sometimes physical
- filthy and unnatural
- unbounded and scurrilous
- cruel or wanton
- merely dyspeptic
- by-and-bye--illiberal
- scandal or personal
- physical and sexual
- big sexual
- horrendous physical
- deliberate and constant
- obviously foul
- incredible verbal
- japanese but military-style
- damaging serial
- foul, personal
- vulgar and indiscriminate
- shrill personal
- shameful profligate
- present superstitious
- real and somewhat coarse
- vehement and indelicate
- coarse but rather meaningless
- monstrous illegal
- foul and senseless
- sharp and virulent
- incessant and idiotic
- open and insidious
- perpetual and unlimited
- abstract, abstruse
- physical and verbal
- virulent personal
- undeserved and continuous
- mere venomous
- verbal parental
- complete flagrant
- frequent and indiscriminate
- strident and bitter
- periodic indirect
- harmful and dangerous
- callous and unforgivable
- common vindictive
- infamous radical
- cowardly physical
- unjust and acrimonious
- coarse and refined
- weak declamatory
- dull, incorrigible
- imaginable and abominable
- coarse and outrageous
- broad, pre-determined
- scurrilous and passionate
- atrocious, filthy
- facetious and affectionate
- japanese and contemptuous
- elaborate literary
- immediate and sterile
- contemptuous and filthy
- intolerant and indiscriminate
- malevolent and senseless
- painful, malignant
- by--illiberal
- horrible and intolerable
- merely coarse and profane
- alternate gross
- realistically gross
- perpetual virulent
- gross, unqualified and unjustifiable
- outspoken personal
- horrible ribald
- -theological
- flagrant and tyrannical
- sentient, self-conscious
- violent and indiscriminate
- low and infamous
- plain and scurrilous
- incoherent personal
- malicious or tyrannical
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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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