Describing Words
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Words to Describe dispute
Below is a list of describing words for dispute. 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 dispute:
- longstanding territorial
- violent and longstanding
- currently dormant
- vicious, ear-splitting
- odious theological
- nasty civil
- warm and clamorous
- violent matrimonial
- long-standing chamizal
- important and very long-running
- long-running twentieth-century
- ideological or liturgical
- next canine
- much and vehement
- irritating and long-standing
- biggest outstanding
- acrimonious legal
- fair and private
- wordy and most abusive
- long and sufficiently bitter
- interesting and bitter
- trivial ecclesiastical
- indubitable, past
- obvious, past
- contemptible monkish
- rather verbal
- metaphysical or rather verbal
- unfortunate internal
- fierce legal
- tremendous theological
- long-running legal
- ponderously impending
- new and most violent
- intelligent or rational
- learnedly antiquarian
- acrimonious and barren
- unnecessarily acrimonious and barren
- unnecessarily acrimonious
- ugly academic
- incessant and insoluble
- interesting three-cornered
- intercolonial or international
- much amicable
- sore and hot
- political and non-judicial
- complex maritime
- amicable and unimportant
- dire ecclesiastical
- same, past
- finally acrimonious
- sensational diplomatic
- violent, protracted
- somewhat vexing
- protracted and somewhat vexing
- profane or captious
- private and iniquitous
- spirited and almost acrimonious
- famous academical
- overt international
- idly fierce
- protracted and embarrassing
- exceedingly disgusting and shocking
- furious and indecent
- bilaterlal
- largely dormant
- popular or philosophical
- chamizal
- apparently theological
- ongoing territorial
- major theological
- protracted and acrimonious
- little interdepartmental
- fierce international
- arcane academic
- singular and obstinate
- brief and angry
- sino-soviet
- bloody interlingual
- polite academic
- larger, all-consuming
- ter\-ritorial
- environmental or economic
- long-running territorial
- famed and furious
- particular ongoing
- brief territorial
- maritime legal
- age-old territorial
- upcoming breach-of-contract
- ongoing but good-natured
- little ongoing
- ridiculous judicial
- ><i>jurisdictional
- ter-ritorial
- inter-arab
- violent marital
- nineteenth cal
- mind-numbingly unimportant
- further good-natured
- irritating and utterly useless
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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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