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 disregard
Below is a list of describing words for disregard. 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 disregard:
- widespread and flagrant
- just callous
- truly impudent
- consequently illogical
- blatant and indecent
- utterly blatant and indecent
- obstinate and illogical
- reckless and ungracious
- defiant, overt
- graceful apparent
- total and systematic
- heroically foolhardy
- endemic, congenital
- steadfast haughty
- pletely unconscious
- blatant and blithe
- occasional and somewhat casual
- brazen, flagrant
- enough callous
- brightly tactful
- exacting mutual
- circumspect but justifiable
- absolute and courageous
- interesting but indefensible
- intensely interesting but indefensible
- unwise and contemptuous
- unconscious or inevitable
- simple and self-sacrificing
- cynical and modern
- incredible and nihilistic
- utterly blatant
- mean�total
- unprecedented german
- ignorant or insubordinate
- frank and notorious
- wayward and sullen
- rather highflying
- careless or boastful
- fine and senseless
- german fine
- sumptuous and total
- stern and paradoxical
- fine and unmoved
- superb but sometimes calamitous
- happy, courageous
- strange and almost profane
- utter and notorious
- solemn and supercilious
- cynical and criminal
- german utter
- childish and masculine
- substantial and constant
- grand and coarse
- unusual and wanton
- altogether insolent
- charming but strictly masculine
- cynical and barbarous
- utter and most impious
- fitful and reckless
- beautiful but embarrassing
- good-humored but rather contemptuous
- horrifying, destructive
- contemptuous scientific
- constant and reckless
- cynical or conventional
- grossly irreverent
- general and lofty
- audacious and delicious
- deliberate and perverse
- gay, normal
- national cheerful
- brutal teutonic
- blissful invincible
- splendid but foolish
- unnatural and utterly heathen
- systematic and general
- heavy-handed, rough
- more bacchanal
- unsympathetic or intolerant
- unpleasant and complete
- superb feminine
- customary arbitrary
- absolutely contemptuous
- calm stolid
- massive, selfish
- incongruous and almost vulgar
- absolute and traditional
- entirely reckless
- persistent and selfish
- rule--habitual
- lofty masculine
- total or shameless
- complete and cynical
- shameless and sordid
- fraudulent and criminal
- similar purposeless
- bland and happy
- utter bold
- utter public
- utter and obvious
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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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