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 animosity
Below is a list of describing words for animosity. 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 animosity:
- particular and malignant
- steady, sunken
- passionate, corporal
- ridiculous and clumsy
- indeed fanatical
- unphilosophical and indeed fanatical
- personal or superstitious
- conspicuous and far-reaching
- general and inveterate
- private and mundane
- away long-cherished
- much and so unqualified
- widespread bulgarian
- trial and acquittal
- much unrelenting
- private vindictive
- odious and barbarous
- malicious and inhuman
- well-known and crafty
- bitter feudal
- unmistakable silent
- pious or personal
- special and natural
- greatest and most bitter
- peculiar and inherent
- infrequently personal
- unrelenting and bitter
- especially relentless and savage
- especially relentless
- deceased much
- steady and violent
- rancorous religious
- extravagant and often inconsistent
- zeal and rancorous
- stern energetic
- intense and bigoted
- indiscriminating and eternal
- vindictive, deep-rooted
- frenzied political
- deep and rancorous
- fierce reciprocal
- bitter and undisguised
- evident and savage
- later vindictive
- stored-up racial
- general bitter
- psychic, inscrutable
- reckless, indecent
- venomous feudal
- hereditary religious
- quite undisguised
- irreconcilable and violent
- alike national
- sudden and implacable
- pique or personal
- daring and relentless
- bitter and blind
- usual mutual
- bitterest and most unrelenting
- new-found, poisonous
- barely covert
- deep-seated, traditional
- rousing theological
- fierce, undying
- down hereditary
- conquest--theological
- personal and philosophical
- almost acute
- narrow rancorous
- popular and religious
- unbridled animal
- blind, uncontrollable
- old and national
- cold logical
- unworthy and contemptible
- bigoted and senseless
- bitter, uncompromising
- open, bitter
- own rancorous
- political or theological
- bitter, personal
- such rancorous
- genuine and well-founded
- deep-seated but secret
- quiet but strong
- apparently personal
- utmost religious
- apparently bitter
- blind, dull
- personal and bitter
- tribal and local
- long and mutual
- such implacable
- furious and destructive
- private or political
- fiercest political
- hardly inferior
- relentless and savage
- often inconsistent
- stern, energetic
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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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