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 prosecution
Below is a list of describing words for prosecution. 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 prosecution:
- legitimate and economical
- vigorous, rapid and successful
- generally happy and successful
- direct judicial
- blood-ritual
- consistent, tenacious
- downright wicked and criminal
- speedy and vigorous
- lords--criminal
- rigorous and relentless
- stupid and unwarranted
- violent and groundless
- vigorous and unrelenting
- great censorial
- little consistent
- abominable and absurd
- stringent and persistent
- reluctant but indispensable
- immediate, active and practical
- private criminal
- malevolent partisan
- purely malicious
- expensive, tyrannical
- apply criminal
- dismissal and immediate
- judicial or disciplinary
- formal criminal
- relatively uninspired
- rapid and zealous
- unusually rapid and zealous
- swift criminal
- wholly malicious
- intense and laborious
- energetic and systematic
- unusual and unjust
- cautious and sober
- energetic, unyielding
- resolute and consistent
- judicial and criminal
- ruinous legal
- systematic and vigorous
- lengthy criminal
- bitter and disgraceful
- thoroughly partisan
- unflinching and uncompromising
- efficient and systematic
- malignant private
- likely criminal
- liberal and scientific
- vigorous and constant
- slow judicial
- languid and inefficient
- occasional meaningless
- speedy and energetic
- continuous and energetic
- idiotic, wanton
- systematic and successful
- iniquitous and barbarous
- impolitical
- judicial and public
- malicious and unfounded
- generally happy
- vigorous and successful
- rapid and successful
- consistent and steady
- steady and relentless
- constant and successful
- sturdy, vigorous
- stupid and malicious
- wicked and criminal
- strict and regular
- further offensive
- diligent and careful
- regular criminal
- downright wicked
- ongoing criminal
- solid criminal
- absurd and wicked
- feeble and incompetent
- energetic and vigorous
- immediate and effective
- criminal
- possibly criminal
- violent and unjust
- safe and advantageous
- last prominent
- successful criminal
- arbitrary and unjust
- real criminal
- _criminal
- more vigorous
- speedy and effectual
- constant and unremitting
- unjust and illegal
- more malevolent
- happy and successful
- vigorous
- safe and successful
- “criminal
- possible criminal
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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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