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 persecutions
Below is a list of describing words for persecutions. 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 persecutions:
- horrible and unjust
- vindictive and unrelenting
- monstrous and unreasonable
- unjust and ineffectual
- hostile or religious
- weary and ceaseless
- unwarranted and intolerable
- vindictive and incessant
- pitiless and unforgiving
- desultory and faint
- meanest political
- gentle but insidious
- intermittent severe
- tenth and greatest
- violent and unrelenting
- insidious religious
- greatest and most general
- foolish and ill-mannered
- annoying and harmful
- disgraceful and senseless
- greatest and most unwarrantable
- wretched brazilian
- actual, persistent
- peculiarly cruel and wanton
- intermittent popular
- irregular but severe
- sharply wholesome
- fierce and general
- occasional furious
- violent and general
- other and very severe
- subsequent subtle
- national and governmental
- apparently unmotivated
- bloody & barbarous
- considerable petty
- inhuman and unjust
- unjust and evident
- fierce and often protracted
- unrelenting and desperate
- bloody and diverse
- unjust and frightful
- virulent and violent
- bitter and heartless
- exciting bloody
- meanest and most cruel
- always tolerant and full
- terrible but feeble
- bitterest and murderous
- long and relentless
- contemptible and outrageous
- bitter and tireless
- fierce malicious
- fearful and pitiless
- mild unceasing
- general violent
- protracted and most cruel
- late, racial and religious
- embarrassing and often dangerous
- continuous and extraordinary
- continuous and rigorous
- social and proprietal
- religious, social and proprietal
- heartless, criminal
- pitiless, persistent
- rigid and barbarous
- bitter and continuous
- intolerable and petty
- unremitting, unrelenting
- petty and bitter
- outrageous and unaccountable
- rabid and despicable
- fiercest and most systematic
- petty but virulent
- relentless official
- unceasing native
- continual and furious
- capricious or ineffectual
- active, fierce
- envious and ungrateful
- petty, relentless
- malicious and iniquitous
- iniquitous and unrelenting
- systematic and invidious
- underhanded, venomous
- penal and relentless
- incessant and remorseless
- temporary but thorough
- remote or merely theoretical
- maddening and unbearable
- bitter and foolish
- brutal and intolerant
- virulent and most unscrupulous
- greatest brahmanical
- cruel and inordinate
- bitterest religious
- continuous and terrible
- dreadful and unremitting
- ingeniously harrowing
- zeal and terrible
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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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