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 ruling
Below is a list of describing words for ruling. 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 ruling:
- authoritarian presidential
- amtal
- democratic civilian
- special departmental
- departmental major
- single-party and military
- authoritarian socialist
- fundamental magical
- severe and fierce
- rational, disinterested
- otherwise invariable
- undisturbed spanish
- never barest
- single-party
- brutal soviet
- ancient, urbane
- murderous, capricious
- basic unwritten
- benign and perpetual
- general or stationary
- long and uncontested
- intermittent and capricious
- xenophobic communist
- sole immutable
- paternal and absolute
- direct swedish
- mundane and celestial
- undistinguished military
- strict one-man
- alone infallible
- rigorous and unalterable
- perfect, independent
- suave feminine
- morally lawless
- passive-loss
- present wise
- one-party
- conclusive and final
- stodgy, tyrannical
- entire and inviolate
- cruel or poor
- chaotic selfish
- orthodox and strictest
- definite impersonal
- fierce and bloodstained
- strict frosty
- stiff and often inapplicable
- wise and well-known
- correct phonetic
- irrationally hard and strict
- irrationally hard
- old three-foot
- arbitrary and bitterly oppressive
- bitterly oppressive
- _--_general
- european and military
- irish and disobedient
- wise benedictine
- mischievous general
- entirely spanish
- strict but wholesome
- brief and irresolute
- short but tranquil
- savagely impartial
- totally infallible
- inevitable, tedious
- fairly elemental
- simply brazen
- ferocious direct
- permanent, inflexible
- cruel and negligent
- harsh and dour
- salutary and wise
- cruel, absolute
- regular, unchanging
- mostly benevolent
- quaint arithmetical
- sweet and most perfect
- liberal, conciliatory
- ferocious and arbitrary
- dictational
- purely dictational
- customary and indispensable
- old two-foot
- simple and fairly healthy
- plain and golden
- hence royal
- precarious and very powerless
- exacting and ignorant
- mild but decisive
- short, proverbial
- aristocratical and regal
- consistent or safe
- sufficient, infallible
- subsequent barbarous
- precarious austrian
- definite perceptible
- individual patriarchal
- central, celestial and terrestrial
- republican and senatorial
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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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