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 oppression
Below is a list of describing words for oppression. 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 oppression:
- hostile and military
- wrong and insolent
- stale and dismal
- lawless and wasteful
- intriguing and gradual
- promising less
- grievous and insupportable
- intolerable and inexcusable
- bloody and brutish
- religious, political and domestic
- infamous and intolerable
- centuries-old austrian
- unjust and grievous
- overwhelming and intolerable
- excessive civil
- blind and malignant
- terrible and real
- trial and heaviest
- political, ecclesiastical and social
- easily enormous
- particular sympathetic
- immense, imponderable
- worse rural
- systematic or widespread
- recurrent and desperate
- unscrupulous, systematic
- odious but scientific
- feudal and regal
- detestable judicial
- frequent and equally unjust
- poor, industrial
- further capitalistic
- wanton and mercenary
- royal or oligarchical
- grievous and lawless
- devilish feudal
- notorious, high-handed
- therein extreme
- cruel and maddening
- wanton and foolish
- petty and needless
- sensibly physical
- haunting dreamlike
- unlimited and wanton
- indiscriminate and intolerable
- royal, feudal and clerical
- tyranical and unsocial
- permanently gross
- petty and constant
- undue open
- further aristocratic
- often sanctified
- much fiscal
- slight splenetic
- ultimate capitalist
- flagrant and odious
- chronic and domestic
- rapacious and insolent
- fiscal and military
- gross individual
- impending severe
- arbitrary and unjustifiable
- --infinitesimal
- humid and sultry
- horrid numbing
- past, further
- soviet colonial
- judicial and economic
- worth constant
- downright totalitarian
- lonial and patriarchal
- degrading, cannibalistic
- dishonest or malicious
- spanish economic
- philippine monastic
- feverish lethargic
- wholesale and cruel
- hateful and abominable
- greatest agrarian
- brutal feudal
- ungrateful and unjust
- [feudal
- open and iniquitous
- fearful and overwhelming
- continual sophomoric
- political, reckless
- alien and domestic
- strange additional
- unwarrantable and wanton
- severe and regular
- `imperial
- ancient ministerial
- intolerable foreign
- worst and most powerful
- religious and feudal
- slow, unrelenting
- consequent cerebral
- already frightful
- consequent and unavoidable
- cruel and persistent
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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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