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 law
Below is a list of describing words for law. 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 law:
- partly common
- international and municipal
- french civil
- tribal customary
- largely criminal
- customary international
- portuguese civil
- somali customary
- dutch civil
- private international
- local customary
- kenyan statutory
- interim basic
- customary or common
- spanish civil
- common parliamentary
- disgusting sanctimonious
- insensitive and topsy-turvy
- natural and international
- national bankrupt
- sharp athenian
- immutable cosmic
- central and sublime
- british common
- belgian civil
- equally strong and effective
- liberal bankrupt
- immutable and unsuspected
- common or statutory
- natural or virtual
- constitutional and international
- national organic
- civil and imperial
- subsequent municipal
- judge-made
- maritime international
- public or international
- now martial
- operative creational
- martial or military
- scientific derivative
- new bankrupt
- new and provisional
- loose primary
- complete martial
- boring but exact
- therefore nominal
- alien natural
- public and international
- common and organic
- injurious or obnoxious
- irreversible organic
- extreme and hard
- stringent civil-service
- human nor divine
- natural, divine or human
- jewish oral
- european civil
- strong second
- new poor
- civil and canonical
- substantive criminal
- longer practised
- universal and unalterable
- unwritten common
- french customary
- superior paramount
- civil and international
- general pre-emption
- british martial
- common or unwritten
- therefore inexplicable
- peculiar and therefore inexplicable
- wrong empirical
- common unwritten
- new judge-made
- permanent canal
- absurd positive
- practised constitutional
- italian civil
- divine and immutable
- international and constitutional
- irish criminal
- other applicable
- down martial
- brutal and irremediable
- just secular
- martial or even civil
- ineffectual or salutary
- general or positive
- singular and very ancient
- unchanging and immutable
- inexorable unwritten
- general maritime
- rigid common
- virtual unwritten
- unwritten or common
- common and statutory
- unwritten but inexorable
- soviet civil
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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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