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 violation
Below is a list of describing words for violation. 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 violation:
- constant and unblushing
- massive malevolent
- absolute and stupendous
- clear and flagrant
- criminal and outrageous
- gross and positive
- public, irrefutable
- habitual and open
- major previous
- deliberate, mild
- systematic, deliberate
- careless or criminal
- stupid, high-handed
- manifest, palpable
- unspeakably repugnant
- clear and double
- evident and unwarrantable
- cruel, unheard-of
- palpable and intentional
- willing or conscious
- bold but judicious
- palpable and outrageous
- tyrannical and palpable
- trifling technical
- clear and palpable
- petty unpremeditated
- systematic and flagrant
- outrageous, unfathomable
- flagrant and open
- serious and blatant
- constant and apparently unimportant
- unqualified, unjustifiable
- intolerable, unparalleled
- high-handed and scandalous
- callous and persistent
- odious and monstrous
- persistent and outrageous
- unjustifiable and flagrant
- insolent and unparalleled
- palpable and unconstitutional
- public and flagrant
- glaring and willful
- general and glaring
- flagrant and persistent
- direct and useless
- open and ascertainable
- irregular and culpable
- apparently unwitting
- apparent and signal
- external and literal
- wholesale and ruthless
- willful and vicious
- serious or glaring
- continual and permanent
- intentional and unwarranted
- intentional and illegal
- practised deliberate
- apparently shabby
- merely deliberate
- fundamental and atrocious
- doubtless intentional
- manifest and voluntary
- shocking and extraordinary
- slight and unintentional
- wanton or unjust
- arbitrary and systematic
- inexcusable and corrupt
- open and wanton
- direct and flagrant
- open and persistent
- open and flagrant
- shameful and barbarous
- gross and deliberate
- plain, palpable
- gross and criminal
- single deliberate
- previous minor
- graphic and bloody
- flagrant and unprecedented
- dreadful inter-species
- furtive, opportunistic
- culinary and sartorial
- stabbingly painful
- unwarranted and wholly unconstitutional
- high-handed and unscrupulous
- positive and open
- boldest and most open
- wholesale and open
- active and flagrant
- daring and profane
- cruel and flagrant
- frequent and gross
- real and inexcusable
- palpable and flagrant
- premeditated and persistent
- direct and utter
- willful, intelligent
- deliberate and open
- particularly radical
- wicked and deliberate
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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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