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 enforcement
Below is a list of describing words for enforcement. 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 enforcement:
- appeal but vigorous
- inconsistent and duplicative
- fragmented, inconsistent and duplicative
- mundane horticultural
- gradual universal
- rigorous and literal
- totally rigorous
- alert citywide
- authoritative and active
- faithful and absolute
- rigid and literal
- important, honest
- full and resolute
- calm and proper
- unrelenting and rigid
- uncompromising and inflexible
- impressive and appalling
- mere consistent
- allegedly overzealous
- remarkably lax
- present lenient
- fearless and impartial
- new pro-active
- rigid and successful
- energetic orchestral
- persistent and conscientious
- comparatively stringent
- faithful and impartial
- criminally lax
- strict and harsh
- rapid and certain
- respective supportive
- fair but strict
- extensive and vigorous
- strict and systematic
- present lax
- wise and consistent
- direct positive
- severe and rigid
- rigid and invariable
- wide and effective
- so-called federal
- immediate active
- stronger, better
- duplicative
- particularly rigid
- continuous subliminal
- often admirable
- enough federal
- thorough and impartial
- severe and arbitrary
- volstead
- international peacekeeping
- still stricter
- vyral
- more lax
- full practical
- stricter
- pro-active
- more rigid
- wide general
- more strict
- discriminatory
- judicial and administrative
- lax
- strict
- such zealous
- more rigorous
- immediate practical
- regular and systematic
- own arbitrary
- more especial
- rigid
- rigorous
- necessary legal
- more effectual
- immediate and complete
- stringent
- one-size-fits-all
- antitrust
- even-handed
- more stringent
- due and proper
- proper legal
- citywide
- more drastic
- somewhat severe
- more vigorous
- vigorous
- appeal
- more effective
- entire national
- impartial
- nascent
- less effective
- concurrent
- common-law
- strictest
- selective
- hard-core
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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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