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 criminals
Below is a list of describing words for criminals. 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 criminals:
- unemployed and petty
- unfortunate juvenile
- blackest and most vicious
- criminal, disreputable
- unfortunate habitual
- damned self-aggrandizing
- coolest and most daring
- terrible and depraved
- grave and salaried
- wealthiest and most formidable
- violent teen
- blatant or potential
- depraved and bloody
- new tribunal
- habitual and occasional
- brutal or drunken
- few, notorious
- pitifully amateurish
- minor but unsavory
- vicious urban
- simply murderous
- full-fledged habitual
- ruffianly underground
- several homicidal
- occasional and habitual
- separate lunatic
- riotous and violent
- school--professional
- incorrigible and degraded
- up-to-date and scientific
- hideous genocidal
- wretched and abject
- fiercest french
- serious violent
- society�habitual
- psychologically possible
- low-level professional
- multiple violent
- preferred dangerous
- possible, professional
- sneaky soulless
- well-known violent
- refuge�political
- down demented
- bloodthirsty, mutinous
- white-collar political
- occasional or passionate
- atavistic or congenital
- dangerous atavistic
- congenital or pathological
- many excusable
- runaway italian
- seemingly dull and brutish
- notorious native
- well-known but unrestrained
- repeatedly fugitive
- fortunate, other
- spirited, high-minded
- guilty and responsible
- exempt great
- young and petty
- old and fugitive
- repentant former
- despairing dutch
- dangerous and lazy
- oftentimes guiltless
- tamely past
- uncommonly sharp and clever
- notorious and obscure
- unscrupulous, moneyed
- passionate and political
- insane and ordinary
- many bestial
- habitual, natural and instinctive
- brazen and ingenious
- lowest and most infamous
- refractory and desperate
- few demure
- exclusive and elusive
- elsewhere insane
- insane and mad
- also instinctive
- exactly out-and-out
- desperate and secret
- admittedly professional
- greatest and most astute
- incorrigible and habitual
- dark-skinned downtrodden
- occasional and instinctive
- least degenerate
- therefore habitual and incorrigible
- absolutely incorrigible
- degraded and reckless
- interesting great
- many unpunished
- separate young
- half-reformed
- similar nonviolent
- from�local
- upper-class financial
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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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