Describing Words
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woman
Here are some adjectives for authority. You can get the definitions of these adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to authority (and find more here).
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Words to Describe authority
Below is a list of describing words for authority. 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 authority:
constitutionally limited centralized, world-wide little brief gentle, habitual irresponsible and involuntary eminent astronomical obligational international astronautical highest constitutional civil peacekeeping occasional appellate central monetary afghan interim final dogmatic shadowy and imaginary prodigious actual next transitional strict but civilized french or papal arbitrary or hereditary proper provincial blue tidal regal and paternal independent and uncontrollable concurrent and coequal hereditary or self-appointed temporary and inappropriate overwhelming and irrational ironclad military traditional or scriptural sovereign and dictatorial interim political all-powerful and undisputed absolute and almost sovereign distinct and preponderating distinct higher competent regulatory presidential stand-by other and complete literally unlimited civil and paternal military or aristocratic high and orthodox nearest and most authentic ultimate alien arbitrary and boundless corrupt worn-out permanent and skilled unquestioned and direct once temporal and spiritual ostensible central superior or absolute tribunal or public new obligational rightful local appropriate governmental equal papal crisp and sharp parental or scholastic judicial and sacerdotal permanent centralized disapproval and masculine common supranational ultimate, central unbounded and inexplicable nearest competent dry and unquestionable utter, unquestionable hence ultimate highest rabbinical corrupt, worn-out paramount civil vast prescriptive peremptory external much rotund overbearing parochial little paramount intuitive, eagle-eyed old-fashioned paternal pure infallible concrete sovereign unimpeachable ecclesiastical legal revolutionary coercive or legislative competent governmental down hierarchical autocratic diocesan unlimited sovereign stern and unsympathetic rather hermaphroditical arbitrary but legal great--parental old-fashioned or doubtful unconditional, unlimited ancient and decisive generally official unquestionably conservative divine and providential genial and complacent graceful but resolute semi-canonical young, unconditioned anxious popular royal or judicial say--capital presidential standby direct or legal high medical benign omniscient next contemporary central popular least constructive hereditary and independent royal spiritual best and most balanced fair central dramatic and incalculable male, legged real, imperial naked, unsupported multiracial naval weird and comic brief, unaccountable centralized, imperial earthly theological destroying-central modern but respectable scant paternal sole and total personal ecclesiastical spiritual and unarmed historical and indisputable calm and rather casual native and unused much regal supta-national personal feudal next competent absolute and continuous other, administrative full prophetic undefined spiritual unlimited patriarchal fairly first-class secular or even ecclesiastical dependent, derivative considerable and weighty proud, presumptuous jealous and stern well-known palestinian thine unrestrained immense and sacred useful or substantial ferocious and uncontrolled ecclesiastical official illegal and boundless same trustworthy unsupported and slender ultimate ecclesiastical classical or quasi-scriptural cruel and uncontrolled infallible and uncontrollable requisite or genuine uncontrolled, unlimited ample and unquestionable family undivided competent and moderate undivided and unmolested two-fold exclusive unwarranted civil plenary and absolute wrong, spiritual boundless patriarchal especially papal ecclesiastical and especially papal highest ornithological regal and royal time-honored constitutional fleeting and ephemeral personal and collegial wholesome or reasonable papal and clerical absolute and incomprehensible common, equal and moderate majestic and undisputed well-defined disciplinary legislative, administrative and judicial legislative, judicial and military principal and primitive reasonable or tolerable possibly weak and shifty divine and national weighty and imperative merely vicarious highest, financial surest and even fullest centralized competent ample governmental older and far worse insurgent governmental weighty single imperial or proprietary rightful regal excellent scriptural immediately divine competent municipal unique and incontestable highest and most credible impartial governmental away spanish external or supernal additional and social paramount divine impeiial divine and original best orthodox autocratic official new, political enormous and almost irresponsible scriptural or apostolical ecclesiastical and conventional objectionable public oppressive external false clerical imperial and absolute territorial secular high veterinary jewish and ecclesiastical paternal and social deliberate but unmistakable divinely competent legitimate spiritual bold, undisputed rival secular hierarchical or ministerial infallible high independent unsheltered remote postal limited and occasional powerful and predominant sovereign and uncontrollable regulatory or supervisory propraetorial trustworthy, original ecclesiastical and royal absolute, uncontrolled local sanitary sole undisputed actual or legal complete protective direct and unquestioned central independent fullest constitutional new transitional few transitional full papal same incontestable highest imperial weak planetary legal planetary planetary developmental violently impassive enigmatic, self-conscious absolute unassailable nominal but irresistible due imperial unified governmental final judgmental peruvian cultural greatest mundane overly anal newly unquestioned ancient, unanswerable benign and responsible great-grandparental federal bi\-ological enough unmistakable truly legal gentle and confident once paternal quiet but formidable closest royal oppressive human central, unquestioned much heavy-handed suggestive but nonspecific familial and dictatorial sole, unopposable principal inquisitorial former crisp extra-parametrical lower fuller royal doubly dubious high and conservative always disputable potent, overpowering mighty and independent least irregular absolute royal incontestable natural paramount central unlimited regal higher magisterial general unlimited wholly unlimited earlier consular consular official highly dangerous and unnecessary reliable feminine cool, self-centered still unquestioned vast and irresponsible high hygienic thereto full strategically responsible uncontrolled absolute sole judicial ample and independent arbitrary and single-handed nominal civil true, self-governing good insurgent sufficient central body--local extra-natural official inclusive political entire and unrestrained grand egyptian real autocratic available decisive artificial and groundless central rightful sovereign and sepulchral excessive temporal human positional self-perpetuating ecclesiastical absolute and dominant high therapeutical other and unnamed merely parental chief medico-legal same gynecological purely marital protective masculine moral or even national classical or synodal speculative, entire omniscient composite impressive and indubitable traditional governmental critical and spiritual unofficial and somewhat personal almost absolute and universal perfect imperial common superior central native existent central quiet but definite external and irresistible inflexible and irreversible supernational sovereign original and almost contemporary ample and high creative and absolute conventional and baseless visible and regular independent and undivided british legislative legal, regular patristic and orthodox certainly abrupt certainly abrupt and hard abler german ill-defined and almost unlimited just central central, co-ordinated uniformly associate actual, effective and absolute nominal and shadowy sufficient fruitful outward infallible bleak unanswerable insufficient, civil undivided presidential loyal popular loyal federal ample and most complete higher parental monarchical and pontifical best casuistical respectable and conspicuous present ranking own apostolic central or auxiliary absolute, undivided former dictatorial unquestioned apostolic consequent infallible feeble and fleeting local and parental national final spiritual or scientific conclusive doctrinal hereditary, uncontrollable paramount and sole clandestine, illegal external and divine lawful external latest and most graphic silent and calm already lawful peremptorily--parental peremptorily--parental and regal thoroughly reliable and standard plenary and sovereign unquestionably official vast and centralized superior or lawful scriptural or apostolic mystic messianic exclusive apostolic prevalent and gracious royal subordinate high and almost absolute spiritual and episcopal extensive and almost absolute military and arbitrary solid and absolute high and almost single undue, unnecessary special and actual shrewd, ignorant will--parental sympathetic national highest democratic sectarian and provincial decisive and irresistible unlimited papal local centralized conventional or customary hanbal preferred extraneous and arbitrary paramount and unquestionable absolute and comprehensive judicial and royal legitimate and absolute central and unknown tutoral academic or tutoral dubious or inadequate paramount legislative invisible but all-powerful late and fabulous medical, legal or clerical infallible abiding peremptory parental grave and conclusive darkly energetic royal or even legislative trustworthy original hitherto valid and absolute valid and absolute higher and extra-mural absolute and extraordinary irrefutable and quite unquestioned competent critical unobtrusive but masterful governmental or ecclesiastical absolute infallible primeval paternal powerful hierarchical capitalist and middle-class long-established intellectual final, unquestioned boundless visitatorial legitimate and venerable local competent dynamic and spiritual actual dictatorial magisterial and ecclesiastical imaginable public traditional and episcopal pontifical and regal apostolic and royal undivided and absolute explicit, unmistakable episcopal or apostolic far-flung theatrical inadequate ancient same magisterial general and central single and relatively inferior high numismatic undefined and extensive best, external new unlawful two-year transitional afghan transitional greater governmental accurate or trustworthy indisputable ethical highest and most unquestionable remote and affable parental and civil undisputed medical apostolical and infallible sole, legitimate scientific and magisterial disused criminal aforesaid, full foremost statistical comprehensive spiritual plenary legislative unseen and seemingly superhuman continuous and compelling confident, hard authentical illustrious same apostolical distant and arbitrary truthful and positive full and undiminished cohesive central =--federal central irresistible indifferent or inferior unnatural patriarchal paternal and sometimes maternal independent and self-evident compelling and ultimate princesses--tyrannical royal princesses--tyrannical infallible and final relatively cosmic greatest, military moral, political and civil little mandatory military but civil respectful but all-powerful public academical truly extraordinary and far-reaching local, legislative chief available diplomatic, civil less or inferior chief book-burning still trustworthy necessary or inherent later colombian infallible and unchanging external regulative later parental sacerdotal and civic impartial or accurate supposedly exhaustive parochial and charitable ancient and adequate independent, owing joint parental certain and insuperable certain and invincible highest communal competent etymological incompatible legislative usual barren spanish and chilean quite unconstitutional replete young original discretionary irresponsible political unquestioned patriarchal superior-general or central superior-general ecclesiastical or theocratical long-established and unquestioned external and personal ecclesiastical and parental prodigious, actual coercive temporal immediate episcopal central or cantonal less public-spirited firmly portuguese strictest parental old-time positive healthful positive mild, suggestive highest canadian jurisdictional or public academic or tutorial exceptional governmental inner and individual uncontrolled and undisputed free, absolute and entire wide but insecure standard and chief adequate contemporary henceforth unlimited full and uncontrollable extraordinary but lawful competent and adequate better topographical enlightened, royal ecclesiastical and classical well-known clinical sole influential distinctly paternal insolent and pedantic divine, anti-human unknown but very competent arbitrary or unnecessary ostensibly necessary necessary, ever-present germane and ethical undisputed temporal impartial and sovereign authority--spiritual altogether indisputable independent and altogether indisputable undivided hereditary nominal equivocal rightful nor righteous subtle and shy positive and virile extensive centralized lower reasonable step-parental --certainly high unnatural brahminical presently unseen great and all-knowing somewhat honorary late and very uncertain rival feminine indignant civic perfectly insatiable external and tyrannical central infallible limited and contentious civilized national vicarious sovereign chief biographical great and oft-quoted foreign and deceased jews--biblical people--spiritual principal doctrinal well-nigh monarchical high apostolic ultimate administrative public, impartial public and impartial strong uncial extensive and somewhat indefinite chief and safest apostolic and divine exclusive human especially paternal recent and very questionable preternatural legislative wont, prescriptive sole contemporaneous greatest orthodox royal or pontifical explicit and plenary universal, necessary and certain highly concrete and personal unlimited tyrannical paramount and exclusive limited and indefinable physically limited and indefinable brief but nearly unrestricted once political and military synodical and parliamentary legislative or coercive traditional or other parental or patriarchal respectively political and military actual monarchical arbitrary or tyrannical away royal and divine unquestioned legislative direct and compulsory anywhere full and complete anywhere full subordinate or separate effectual local holy parental easy, undisputed almost independent and arbitrary clear & undisputed veritable ministerial jealous and sluggish great amatory sufficiently powerful and independent decisive judicial impeccable final contemporary and valuable arbitrary but parental architectural or ecclesiastical highest pathological legal or permanent calm and absolutely undeniable paramount local public neutral gentle marital imperious marital parental and medical human sovereign unbounded and righteous powerless, paternal unquestionable contemporary absolute such entirely disorganized solely judicial doubtful or insufficient moreover divine national and moreover divine primary textual brief and frail majestic and formidable final and godlike centralized and foreign complete monarchical therefore unconstitutional unrestricted and therefore unconstitutional definitely episcopal sole appellate holiest natural unlimited or unrestrained severe paternal national supervisory singular and intermediate fancy and gentle stern but calm masculine or rather hermaphroditical plain unanswerable indispensable and valuable unseen and extraordinary particularly military or naval <def>royal mysterious and unlimited direct legislative high agricultural whole regal superior civil general discretionary central legislative rural sanitary highest legal legitimate civil equal and undivided modest but irresistible chief japanese legitimate sovereign once temporal utmost maternal highest judicial least historical full transitional central ecclesiastical competent superior same unimpeachable competent ecclesiastical external compulsory equal divine stern parental similarly respectable poetical or other divine external alien spiritual such managerial high traditional hollow mechanical world-wide moral monarchical or rather tyrannical medieval rabbinical arbitrary or absolute sacred and sovereign sovereign and legitimate royal and civil fullest maternal absolute and serene strong and central urban sanitary wild, selfish weak ordinary divine and exclusive tolerable military zealous ecclesiastical old but unknown great and long-established highest administrative civil and spiritual absolute and uncontrolled sole legislative real legislative quite unimpeachable central political sole sovereign specific statutory single sovereign high legal unlimited discretionary complete sovereign permanent standard intrinsic, absolute stern feudal well-nigh divine mexican governmental same legitimate high journalistic eminent theological limited and precarious old infallible sole spiritual almost dictatorial sovereign political absolute and unquestionable strong central normal civil chief original complete and unconditional same veracious full governmental direct scriptural same sovereign highest ecclesiastical proper custodial proper cognitive far presidential moral sanitary overall artistic associa-tional less psychological mere querulous constitutional nor statutory distinctly presidential ever-more precarious centralized political al and religious mature sonorous entirely nonpolitical international and entirely nonpolitical full fiduciary toofficial brutish male sheer royal calm but little benevolent personal highest and unlimited traditional, unquestioned cool, confrontational stern but ethical customary crisp aloof but ultimate natural, irrefutable higher investigative necessarily vast completely heartfelt frightening, viable real disciplinary unnamed higher unlimited budgetary autonomous civil humble and too much legitimate secular tireless local absolutely unqualified god-like, severe unassuming natural unlimited operational calm, genuine final and self-sufficient abusive female grateful interstellar own, unquestioned galactic correctional unlimited disciplinary casually regal senior portal trans-temporal portal official portal newborn portal proper civilian physical and legal sole imperial outstanding astronomical unjustified and cruel sudden and unopposed back online and central online and central sober paternal old professorial prime parental obtuse civilian habitual and utter secular, temporal same unquestionable foreign and somewhat terrifying bigoted fascist functional central sometimes fearsome tal and religious never tal and religious never tal much meaningful rough, undeniable devout reverential aloof inner effectual moral ancient visible unlimited spiritual great and irresponsible whole legislative direct statutory independent and coequal extraordinary consular whole magisterial extraordinary magisterial high discretionary worth nor public ever-growing political high and decisive judicious parental ample legal central statistical plenipotential absolute and almost unlimited eminent spiritual modern and local unlimited, uncontrollable arbitrary, personal mild and good-humored arbitrary individual absolute apostolic new paramount tiny higher formidable higher territorial legislative equally good and valid alien and higher nearest administrative central educational less indisputable avowed and constitutional impenetrable local increasingly centralized official rate-making universal and rightful large and somewhat indefinite somewhat partial subordinate and municipal weighty critical rigorous and oppressive highest republican foreign and interested especially foreign and interested still undisputed ultimate legislative fullest legislative absolute and effective effective and absolute essential and effective same competent mild and parental clear parliamentary full editorial brief but harmless quiet paternal general royal superhuman and infallible imperial or prætorial weak and precarious imperial or pr�torial imperial or praetorial elegantly severe present regal poetic or judicial holy royal limited and doubtful rightful human high and impartial competent surgical sherifal equal and divine central and impartial traditional intellectual nameless and uncertain curious maternal complete and uncontrolled private and arbitrary past and contemporaneous divine and interior awful majestic unequaled and paramount reliable and standard intensely centralized inherent legislative absolute and infallible least parental
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Words to Describe authority
As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "authority" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "authority" are: constitutionally limited, centralized, world-wide, little brief, gentle, habitual, and irresponsible and involuntary. There are 995 other words to describe authority listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe authority 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, "authority" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.
Note also that if there aren't many authority 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 authority?
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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