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 fraud
Below is a list of describing words for fraud. 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 fraud:
- sentimental, melodramatic
- typical pious
- plainer, such
- sleek fierce
- massive and time-consuming
- good-looking, smooth
- hollow vulgar
- standard, frank
- ancient and artful
- pious and merciful
- ongoing fiscal
- wrong and gross
- ritual and shamanistic
- shrewd but implausible
- gigantic and atrocious
- premeditated pecuniary
- impudent bibliographical
- threefold ancient
- pitiful transparent
- audacious and pious
- ruinous and deliberate
- entire magnificent
- greatest orwellian
- flimsy, sickening
- systematical, deliberate
- coarse, forthright
- deliberate and brazen
- stark and palpable
- ingenious and defensible
- inexcusable and open
- cunning or petty
- gross, intentional
- attractive but quite harmless
- thousand-fold worse
- persistent electoral
- deliberate and audacious
- ribald and triple
- wise successful
- conscious and impudent
- paroxysmal, flamboyant
- monstrous and most impudent
- petty and unblushing
- naked secret
- whole sinister
- colossal little
- concerted professional
- biggest and most successful
- mpletely inexplicable
- assorted financial
- vast conspiratorial
- bulgarian commie
- detestable theological
- faraway local
- clumsy and foolish
- psychiatric medical
- obvious and inept
- mendicant old
- immense digital
- scrawny, murderous
- practised large-scale
- absurd and empty
- fine parental
- scandal, private
- extraordinary much
- own unblushing
- pious and excusable
- seductive but perilous
- most stupendous
- petty and palpable
- cruel, unworthy
- palpably hollow
- strange and most atrocious
- completely inexplicable
- doddering, old
- deceptive young
- monstrous wicked
- gross and contemptible
- old soft-hearted
- delectable old
- gigantic literary
- latest devastating
- miserable, mercenary
- superlative old
- else deliberate
- egregious old
- terrible, abominable
- ingenious and pious
- monstrous and clumsy
- complex and subtle
- heartless and wicked
- harmless literary
- deliberate and conscious
- frail, ancient
- sick, deluded
- great electoral
- obviously modern
- utterly inexcusable
- wretched cheap
- reckless, foolish
- gross and clumsy
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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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