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 prejudice
Below is a list of describing words for prejudice. 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 prejudice:
- barbaric local
- antiquated and ignorant
- momentary popular
- insane and wicked
- lifeless verbal
- narrower local
- longstanding human
- long-established illiberal
- religious, racial and political
- racial, religious or political
- savage gothic
- ingrained cultural
- else stiff
- peculiar and most republican
- racial or aesthetic
- conscious and malicious
- stultifying and blinding
- universal and unconquerable
- long-standing, widespread
- despicable or more
- erroneous and popular
- correct vulgar
- salutary domestic
- singular, unaccountable
- virulent and common
- foolish lackadaisical
- just unreasonable
- shoulders--racial
- foolish and very stupid
- unclerical native
- often half-conscious
- ancient hysterical
- real racial
- gravely false
- ineffable nonsensical
- unthinking or willful
- ingrained racial
- racial, patriotic or political
- religious, political or patriotic
- religious, national and racial
- common but ill-founded
- strong and widely prevalent
- legitimate, veracious
- jealous social
- irrational, old-world
- unscientific old-world
- british conformist
- puritanical middle-class
- bitter and illogical
- alarming uninformed
- unreasoning, stupid
- inveterate disgusting
- obsolete old-world
- obstinate and unyielding
- particular and strong
- enough native-born
- irrational anachronistic
- petty and unforgiving
- critical and managerial
- hostile and inveterate
- unpopular and unreasonable
- inter-racial and international
- slightest national
- prevalent, popular
- smart, propulsive
- merely aristocratic
- unreasoning popular
- religious or temperamental
- crass and petty
- unreasonable and unpatriotic
- unreasoning conservative
- tenacious and dangerous
- perhaps ingrained
- conventional democratic
- certain anti-national
- stereotyped international
- disarmed racial
- however religious
- violent provincial
- outrageous inconsistent
- disgraceful and inveterate
- amusing professional
- slightest splenetic
- morbid and malign
- vulgar and unchristian
- fatal heathen
- ludicrous popular
- vulgar national
- vindictive racial
- involuntary but strong
- narrow and singular
- inborn or traditional
- antiquated, vulgar
- lively sentimental
- stubborn and perhaps fantastic
- away provincial
- extreme jewish
- paramount, racial
- fond overweening
- heretofore overpowering
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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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