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 vengeance
Below is a list of describing words for vengeance. 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 vengeance:
- flaming cosmic
- blazingly cataclysmic
- fittingly horrible
- slow, mad
- swift and signal
- slow but abiding
- intoxicated, joyous
- oh-so-gradual
- awful distasteful
- exact uttermost
- exemplary and never-to-be-forgotten
- inexorable revolutionary
- mild, private
- unerring such
- much and quick
- ample and fearful
- your petty
- indiscriminate and bloody
- swift impending
- strange and eternal
- exacting fierce
- fitting special
- sure and fearful
- plainly divine
- openly exact
- dire and speedy
- puny but fearful
- tardy but relentless
- immoderate and unjust
- former determinate
- beautiful philosophic
- sweet and terrific
- bloody and swift
- safe and bloody
- human and remorseless
- exact fearful
- awfully devastating
- unexpected and unsatisfying
- cool and exquisite
- thy harshest
- unforgiving and promising
- cold and complete
- least exact
- sudden and supernatural
- blind and thoughtless
- sleepless and eternal
- silent posthumous
- probably scheming
- exacting ferocious
- venal, venial
- sweet but dangerous
- hideous and great
- direct and dreadful
- sweet and signal
- vague impending
- long-cherished mad
- secret and unrelenting
- cruel but appropriate
- slowly worked-out
- judicial and private
- fiendish and blasphemous
- merciless and indiscriminating
- signal and severe
- swift and wicked
- exemplary and memorable
- appalling popular
- wholesale popular
- hot and complete
- speedy and frightful
- simple godlike
- exemplary and malignant
- monstrous, insatiable
- swift, personal
- personal, malicious
- lawless private
- possibly cruel
- inexorable and all-powerful
- altogether unforgiving
- pitiable and impotent
- wholesale and remorseless
- cruel and indiscriminate
- often legal
- tardy but fearful
- immediate and commensurate
- ample, final
- fearful undying
- impious and awful
- rightly exact
- terrible retaliatory
- insane and unprofitable
- disorderly popular
- sweet and complete
- righteous and most rigorous
- unseen but awful
- horrid feudal
- inhuman and incarnate
- signal and barbarous
- sore and signal
- sad and signal
- other or worse
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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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