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 regime
Below is a list of describing words for regime. 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 regime:
- one-party presidential
- authoritarian ex-communist
- dictatorial military
- strict socialist
- illegal separatist
- environmental regulatory
- truly repressive
- slower biochemical
- republican chinese
- centralized one-party
- later cambodian
- hateful, intolerable
- current regulatory
- religiously repressive
- polish feudal
- new traitorous
- repressive, totalitarian
- suspicious, authoritarian
- repugnant imperial
- new buttoned-down
- stern, autocratic
- life--imperial
- emperor--municipal life--imperial
- all-round, well-balanced
- contemptible and tyrannical
- repressive sexist
- previous iraqi
- shaky new
- grisly totalitarian
- slick authoritarian
- libertarian, free-market
- corrupt, murderous
- petty totalitarian
- current finnish
- speculative new
- financially oppressive
- hard, extortionate
- rigorous ceremonial
- pro-noriega
- former communist
- false, brutal and murderous
- strenuous and sane
- sober bucolic
- militant cromwellian
- less anticlerical
- placid presidential
- bureaucratic and routine
- necessarily bureaucratic and routine
- necessarily bureaucratic
- well-developed regulatory
- decayed imperial
- shameful and oppressive
- preposterous parliamentary
- fully civilian
- extravagant radical
- theological and military
- old and shadowy
- revolutionary and dictatorial
- dull bureaucratic
- former viceregal
- ex-communist
- former socialist
- complex, unstable
- purely vegetarian
- vile and unnatural
- severe, repressive
- customary sexual
- stricter financial
- present communist
- beleaguered white
- imperfect, heavy-handed
- iranian-backed fundamentalist
- hard goddamned
- defunct communist
- korean totalitarian
- pitiless communist
- admirably democratic and egalitarian
- admirably democratic
- permanently unsettled
- inimical religious
- infamous and corrupt
- unstable totalitarian
- whole strong-arm
- dictatorial and paranoid
- vulnerable capitalist
- violent and oppressive
- more fascist
- oppressive interstellar
- oppressive totalitarian
- politically reactionary
- last marxist
- crazed revolutionary
- unstable turkish
- obscure, murderous
- nonfat, tasteless
- safest therapeutic
- hostile and dogmatic
- benignly authoritarian
- horrific political
- next unfathomable
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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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