Describing Wordsfor Violence

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Here are some adjectives for violence: severe ethnic, sporadic intercommunal, widespread ethnic, fiercer nuclear, such sonic, intense ethnic, almost unnameable, senseless, raw, selective physical, uncontrolled infantile, military, drug-related, open, unpremeditated, zeal or barbaric, innocent unnecessary, direct and unlawful, abusive and amoral, political and bacterial, much frigid, senseless, savage, sudden, casual, sectarian and political, senseless, inane, impassive natural, open and even bloody, conscious murderous, brief, pneumatic, usual ruinous, useless insufferable, nimble and devilish, extreme, uncontrollable. You can get the definitions of these violence adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to violence (and find more here).

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Words to Describe violence

Below is a list of describing words for violence. 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 violence:

severe ethnic sporadic intercommunal widespread ethnic fiercer nuclear such sonic intense ethnic almost unnameable senseless, raw selective physical uncontrolled infantile military, drug-related open, unpremeditated zeal or barbaric innocent unnecessary direct and unlawful abusive and amoral political and bacterial much frigid senseless, savage sudden, casual sectarian and political senseless, inane impassive natural open and even bloody conscious murderous brief, pneumatic
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usual ruinous useless insufferable nimble and devilish extreme, uncontrollable possible urban intense and private such foamy least compressive unlawful and irresponsible possibly permissible unlawful and insulting insulting physical unrestrained and harrowing premature and atrocious willful, cruel sheer, sudden terrible, mindless occasional low-level intercommunal pained and futile senseless, empty massive lethal reckless, single-minded immense astrophysical savage and purposeless farther irrational shocking and uncolored utterly wanton and unnecessary loving and legitimate sudden legislative extreme and illegal lawless personal indirect or muscular well-meaning but blind shameless, premeditated customary amusing curious and hysterical vulgar and plebeian superb and passionate greater or further frantic and almost inconceivable actual and brutal atrocious and positive unrestrained popular naked extreme increasingly random particularly extreme or unnecessary extreme or unnecessary horrific and dreamlike sudden, petty cataclysmic galactic unnecessary and ultimately boring approach--physical anarchic sexual criminal domestic next loose potentially physical verbal and potentially physical unpleasantly abrupt intense and horrific rare actual aimless, stupid total, frenzied sudden, brassy petty and mundane overbearing piratical glaring and enormous convulsive and irrepressible mad, unconscious needless barbarous unmistakable, charming quick resounding consequent torrential headlong selfish brutal, undisguised unnecessary and almost provocative explosive and cruel savage and unblushing gross and panicky human or elemental harsh or startling premeditated and intentional late and fruitless rude and unnecessary indiscriminate, diabolical terrific and demonic indeed unjustifiable incidental and indeed unjustifiable appalling and brutal opulent and rakish other, revolutionary boisterous, stubborn evolution--revolution--rebellion--individual mad, certain cruel, lawless such, extreme brutal or homicidal extraordinary and tremendous twice physical profound, revolutionary riotous open usually external slightest and most inadequate again tumultuous persuasive loving helpless, dead-weight fanatical, abusive greater sectarian unscrupulous and headstrong frantic and vehement unchecked localized rude but intentional silent or rather inarticulate rarer, petty cold and almost blinding individual and even concerted reprisal and mutual obstinate and frantic almost alcoholic purposeless rude uncontrollable and remorseless quite tempestuous charitable and salutary aimless and suicidal brutal and reckless contemplate--er--personal vicious and personal utmost open excessive and turbulent actual murderous bloody and insolent truly less especially unlawful clamorous and frightful profane and destructive sharp extreme steady and frightful tremendous and stunning er--personal governmental or revolutionary explosive but short-lived openly avowed and exalted impetuous and turgid contrajudicial unreasonably primitive real or injurious rampant and illogical impetuous and indecent candid, rough naked amorphous busy and somewhat theatrical separate disconcerting illegal and ferocious montreal, personal aimless and capricious resounding, foamy heretofore domestic longer reputable undiminished and irresistible true rabid sincere and irrepressible brutal dictatorial sheer imperative rapid and irresistible well-nigh unendurable horrible dry repetitive, mindless much irregular brutal and unnecessary actually physical random, devastating raw inner straight physical whooping and great impetuous and tyrannical much puerile drunken and criminal haughty and brutal mere ferocious instinctive, sudden violence--spiritual israeli-palestinian much hand-to-hand drug-related great and routine casual, half-hearted huge stratospheric instantaneous, limitless ultimately boring incessant and unquestioned sudden, implacable extra-familial uniformly promising merciless, massive sheer mystic consolidated, private-sector violence—actual physical senseless, random spontaneous and catastrophic socially ingrained inextricable and incredible succinct and formal unbelievably gruesome horrific and random surely overt vast, brutal hom�icidal abrupt, lethal scandal, mindless exquisitely protracted unapproved interracial alternate minor last orchestral random homicidal past and impending bloody, irrational incredibly convulsive totally mindless massive biological bitter, senseless extreme brutal general, incoherent naked murderous occasional booming perverse, sexual extreme, graphic random, sick excessive, explicit enthusiastic and seemingly indiscriminate inter-criminal quick and bloodless all-out bitter statistically less probably destructive extravagant and probably destructive starkly incomprehensible senseless sectarian minimal open primitive, visceral lustful or murderous blue, malignant unexpected, unimaginable virulent, unbridled frequent and repetitive many, excessive antique geological typical cinematic sudden and even contagious exhilaratingly uninhibited sudden and inventive grotesque or unnatural quick psychological predictable and well-structured simply communal sudden, breathtaking crazy, disorganized purposeful and malevolent instantaneous and unprecedented impatient and brash startlingly energetic constant, irrational instantaneous and brutal swift and unrestrained instantaneous, ruthless quick, predatory real, messy irreversibly destructive rampant symbolic old, miniature deep noumenal cheerfully horrific hellishly final ual and domestic clenched and such selective political occasional and haphazard ghastly communal especially interpersonal large-scale, indiscriminate incalculable and senseless frequently actual inherent potential tribal, sectarian sudden and irrepressible unconstitutional and unprecedented coarse, indecent occasional wrong-headed brutal and unreasoning present, further grotesque male primal, physical wonderful and necessary other insufferable unexpected and frightful sudden and indescribable transient external indecent verbal partially collective brutal and deliberate instinctive and unskilled equally improper and unnecessary implacable and treacherous often insane ungallant and unceasing contrary, greater unscrupulous journalistic fresh popular hopeless and almost lifeless pure, brutal undue and unnecessary treacherous and greedy characteristically brutal infinite sensual dreadful and overwhelming wholly insane terribly passionate unmodal sorrowful and tragic old furious unnecessary and reckless impetuous, irresistible independent official unrestrained emotional foreign & domestic clearly unnecessary terrible frictional sudden and unrestrained almost preposterous open and arbitrary fierce and blind rabid and ribald general, less abnormal and painful savage, silent relatively passive otherwise extreme painful and shocking mindless, automatic hungry, helpless parsonal simple random random, senseless outrageous and unjustifiable much lawless almost provocative sudden magnificent gross and unjust less rancorous more, individual seemingly unabated open and insulting worst and most inhuman more ungoverned utterly unheard-of own ineffective ever latent widespread sexual fearful and painful vain, bitter merciless and murderous unexpected and unnecessary such unabated daring and such collective or individual greater constructive more day-to-day utterly wanton much frantic merely impulsive cold and terrifying containable dreadful physical swift and overwhelming uncontrolled and uncontrollable almost explosive physical or psychological unabated further physical particularly extreme degrading social complete, unreasoning dark and furious terrible and unendurable fiery volcanic sanguine physical cold and casual senseless and inexplicable random and inexplicable such vindictive stupid, nihilistic sudden, senseless minimal internal extraordinary and quite unexpected terrible electric needlessly gratuitous seemingly indiscriminate occasional natural routine interplanetary finally blind monstrous subterranean extreme and irrevocable vindictive and unnecessary destructive solar sadly necessary unrelenting raw sudden, lethal lowdown disgusting real and symbolic entirely pointless random and purposeless new and insupportable overwhelming, final fiendishly inventive random and uncontrolled extreme and unexpected pure chaotic blind german obstinate and uncompromising wicked and lawless sudden domestic coarsely humorous wanton and overbearing great and brutal extensive popular sudden or unnecessary irregular and unauthorized widespread political awkward and dangerous quite ingenious daring and revolutionary seemingly needless open and brutal skilled physical less unreasoning wicked and murderous usually civil entirely unprecedented much mindless much illegal barbarous and ungrateful such premeditated certain demonic never personal fresh and alarming curious and careful further fatal apparently unabated whole gentle barbarous and unjustifiable especially bloody fierce but ineffectual accidental external illegal personal tyranical antediluvial such maniacal thy brutal interfamilial savage, brutish smooth sudden soft and bitter ugly domestic quick and deliberate sudden manic old-fashioned physical sullen, dangerous loud bright severe foreign deliberate and cold greater latent down domestic wanton and unnecessary same outrageous bloody and unnatural awfully destructive hasty and impetuous probable physical excessive and unnecessary internal or foreign lawless military mere destructive sudden and incredible illegal and atrocious small logical more wanton infinite more cold, sick same discreet much crazy altogether unnecessary other expansive brutal personal far personal equal religious much volcanic much wordy criminal and political usual arbitrary foreign or domestic old instinctive last and utmost sheer military sudden extreme same illegal open military such meteorological quite wrong such abrupt immediate, terrible old irrational personal, physical little random little mindless continual open grotesque, horrible swift defensive horrible, senseless random terrorist perfectly savage random and senseless needless and excessive own unreasoning same or even greater long and tremendous mighty and ruthless considerable external great and unjustifiable less unnecessary terrible revolutionary singular great same lawless sudden and terrific possible domestic idle human lawless equally irrational such heady swift, soft such ill-advised unepiscopal sometimes personal extreme and sudden unpsychological blind physical rather inarticulate much criminal cruel and relentless sudden and amazing such murderous occasional surreptitious verbal or physical chronic domestic blind, random enough naked richly deserving soft, sudden possibly mortal meaningless, pointless current geological seemingly mindless brutal and stupid wanton and brutal more seditious old dreadful thy greedy little gentle such explosive such savage sudden physical promising more almost irrepressible such dynamic awful and tremendous strange passionate wholly disproportionate overwhelming physical other abnormal sometimes actual such terrific end-of-year sudden, awful physical or sexual normal, honest cunning and sheer hasty and angry much unprofitable such convulsive equally improper down internal more senseless somewhat unnecessary cruel and tyrannical such rampant terrible, horrible swift and unexpected perhaps personal same rebellious slightest political fierce mental stern and awful pure, pale much geological sudden and vicious sudden and painful last horrid antipapal possibly personal such abusive such irresistible immediate personal physical such sudden little healthy brief physical peculiarly horrible frequently fatal quite needless less appalling desperate and reckless sudden and extreme almost tropical less innate cold and careful dangerous physical cold and rational sudden, unpredictable anti-gay real stylish much senseless merely sporadic amazing and terrible almost disdainful separatist sudden, explosive such feverish stupid, pointless gracious and charming secret and open such unscrupulous such maternal such criminal unnecessary same irresistible domestic occasional vivid “global sudden, random long, simple political and private almost gratuitous somewhat annoying carefully premeditated “actual utmost apparent sudden and fatal partisan political less sudden quite perceptible own brutal same abrupt almost revolutionary almost frenzied such uncontrolled such promiscuous such tempestuous fine mediaeval almost physical quite unnecessary such crazed ethnic sudden murderous always personal little medieval such consistent religious and ethnic terrible and fierce such unremitting sometimes open such appalling such impetuous such inconceivable premeditated anti-abortion completely unnecessary usual random extraordinary and startling excessive religious --individual such obstinate slow but irresistible own excessive extreme such illegal almost unimaginable constant personal such incredible sudden, brutal sudden quiet such tyrannical such unforeseen such imperious open and direct true tropical extreme physical little virtual more gratuitous wild and uncontrollable certain explosive such unchristian sudden, hard same sudden thy treacherous such unnecessary much grave such frenzied personal actual physical such destructive unlawful senseless wild, insane terrible, silent little gratuitous own impossible sudden and vast much wanton possible, greater gross personal almost stunning strange, familiar sweet and amiable terrific such insane utmost sectarian more frantic rapid and extensive certain harmless extrajudicial readily available unbridled brutal much gratuitous well-structured roughshod mere random such tropical compressive certain barbaric such excessive unmotivated small successive secret or open such infinitesimal probably unconscious ysical wild, sad actual personal small human such extreme ungovernable almost surreal almost pagan swift and brutal domestic and personal dark and angry such unaccountable demagogic such vicious such angry intense emotional sudden and intense undiminished physical or emotional walloping mindless almost barbaric mere immediate such brutal explosive rather unnecessary much external paroxysmal such terrifying private or public gratuitous almost irresistible unjust unrestrained such unceasing more convulsive almost appalling such irrational irresistible such prodigious much unnecessary unjustifiable indirect such casual other external equal or greater sudden, impulsive such unconscious truly tropical serious personal absolute personal sudden nervous such furious direct such open and undisguised almost frantic uncontrollable unconstitutional atavistic such insolent brutal physical such straightforward probably fatal wild hysterical such frightful overt less impressive strange and grotesque such aggressive ordinary physical less or more almost unnecessary mere wanton much passionate such affectionate much open little affectionate sudden destructive sheer wanton almost giddy terroristic big dramatic little actual sudden, strange dead-weight such ponderous such speedy somewhat theatrical such improper unforgivable little judicious more terrific jacobinical uncontrolled such lethal unnameable external random almost inconceivable less destructive possible physical almost indecent unheard-of --personal such amazing wanton blind and ignorant own lawless anti-semitic such tremendous ever-increasing ungoverned excessive undue more domestic stunning murderous less physical revolutionary sudden and alarming such indiscriminate same private unprecedented such deliberate almost primitive sudden, startling sudden and tremendous slight personal needless sudden and unexpected greater and greater terrible and unexpected deep, abiding pure raw french revolutionary such fearful dark, dangerous sheer physical such swift little creative perverse sexual such fiery iconoclastic same characteristic localized strange and uncouth inconceivable unimaginable such needless more purposeful extreme political entirely unnecessary wild and terrible more extreme formalized foreign and domestic comparatively slight such nervous almost unprecedented law-breaking same intellectual minimum necessary pent-up outright such mad unremitting same local such awful undiplomatic sudden and great openly avowed direct personal such artificial strange and unusual unreleased almost blinding more destructive such quick direct physical down fresh such frantic wild and frantic sporadic further personal reprisal such eager unusual outrageous equal such explicit much or too little least possible gladiatorial such hasty moral and physical adnal actual, physical further impending fearful almost passionate swift and terrible unchecked such terrible much bloody same electrical other mechanical comet-like imminent almost equal considerable sacrilegious illegal atrocious surreal convulsive unacknowledged more ruthless

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Words to Describe violence

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "violence" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "violence" are: severe ethnic, sporadic intercommunal, widespread ethnic, fiercer nuclear, and such sonic. There are 995 other words to describe violence listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe violence suits your needs.

If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "violence" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many violence adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is violence?

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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