Describing Wordsfor War

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Here are some adjectives for war: impending civil, second global, terrible civil, late civil, bloody, indecisive, inconclusive and costly eight-year, costly eight-year, short-lived civil, second mexican, vicious civil, virtual civil, brutal civil, outright civil, planetary civil, bloody civil, unsuccessful or successful, long civil, lengthy civil, shortest big, protracted civil, logical civil, principally mobile, covert undeclared, chaotic electronic, pointless electronic, devastating civil, major, all-out, second burmese, north-south civil, brief inter-species. You can get the definitions of these war adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to war (and find more here).

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Words to Describe war

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

impending civil second global terrible civil late civil bloody, indecisive inconclusive and costly eight-year costly eight-year short-lived civil second mexican vicious civil virtual civil brutal civil outright civil planetary civil bloody civil unsuccessful or successful long civil lengthy civil shortest big protracted civil logical civil principally mobile covert undeclared chaotic electronic pointless electronic devastating civil major, all-out second burmese north-south civil
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brief inter-species second jovian sordid and criminal fifth civil bloodiest civil immediate civil life-and-death civil annual little second servile flagrant civil intermittent civil full-scale civil recent large-scale soulless, total hopeless civil fair and lucky disastrous japanese barbarous civil unnecessary civil bitter civil great civil religious civil miserable vietnamese major feline global civil all-out civil desultory civil short, victorious injurious civil gigantic civil total cold brief civil incipient civil bothersome and endless sudden civil costly pan-european incessant subterranean catastrophic cuban clever and diplomatic increasingly rare and valuable fearsomely huge ferocious civil destructive civil unprofitable and expensive second afghan perpetual civil good-natured but fundamentally serious latent civil final civil last paramount french and indian unsuccessful and successful relentless sectional long-standing civil long-term civil protracted or unfortunate fifth religious grievous and almost immortal mortal and perpetual indispensable civil laborious and heavy unbroken civil immediate continental defensive but offensive cruel and devastating last civil horrible civil second civil deplorable civil bad nuclear savage, total terrible cannibalistic silly civil certainly civil unseasonable and dangerous perpetual and implacable abortive civil nasty undeclared five-year civil second interplanetary disastrous and protracted public or perfect sad civil brisk and open unceasing civil frightful fratricidal recent civil terrible and pointless civil second dutch robotic civil interstellar civil ineffectual british exciting civil winless and interminable hard civil defensive and naval potential three-way brutal three-way palestinian civil secret, imperial great or open endemic civil cruel civil civil and unnatural bloodless civil stern bloody civil and fratricidal fierce and finally triumphant long, bloody and disastrous ruinous civil civil and foreign fundamentally serious three-front disastrous civil foreign and civil constant civil open civil bitterly polite miltonic civil unnatural civil private horticultural civil unnatural pointless, needless immediate, aggressive simply civil bloody, endless protracted, destructive incessant and offensive equal and doubtful flat-out atomic instantaneous, undeclared epochal civil young and disorganized so-called partisan financially ruinous and bloody financially ruinous unpleasant, civil six-year dynastic fierce obscure frightful civil memorable civil open and unrelenting horrid civil practically civil fearful civil furious civil unexpected or sudden atrocious civil fourth civil protracted sectarian wanton or useless cruel and self-defeating civil or foreign such charismatic civil and servile useless private perhaps civil savage civil damned civil terrible european desperate civil global thermonuclear bloody untidy incomprehensible civil inevitable nuclear age-old civil explosive�total more explosive�total distant interstellar bloodless lunar few fictional cataclysmic civil thronal colossal final gray-haired, fierce more-or-less perpetual full-blown civil quiet, undercover last mechanized relentless, never-ending worth all-out uneasy cold biological cold large global fullscale, low-budget criminally illegal never simple or holistic righteous and bitter all-out conventional sheerly destructive ceaseless and relentless biolo~cal great undeclared nasty civil full-fledged native ungodly foreign unholy civil inevitable civil devastating and terrible civil, domestic and personal chronic civil bitter tribal perplexing civil furious elemental righteous defensive formidable civil worth eternal ruinous continental ruinous and unnatural late expensive chilean civil territorial civil civil nor religious american-colonial miniature civil disastrous european natural unceasing nine-year civil often civil uncertain and expensive sharp offensive resultant civil forthcoming commercial tedious civil terrific civil ten-year civil dull defensive protracted and ferocious painfully righteous merciful and fruitful dreadful sectional extraordinarily prodigal sordid bloody fruitless and bloody unnecessary, fruitless and bloody long, difficult and eventful irregular servile desultory and protracted relentless and distant moderately glorious present civil fresh civil particularly senseless dreadful civil long expensive difficult and bloody next naval first-class civil vaunted protective disastrous atomic stupid and futile long and very bloody messy civil long and wasteful various lifelike slight but substantial late burmese distant and gigantic reckless civil fierce civil ongoing civil unending civil long and devastating short civil bloody and expensive tremendous civil earlier civil endless civil last arab-israeli multisided civil appalling civil pointless and wasteful long and bloody final greatest global nuclear proper full-scale terrible interstellar ghastly stop-and-start continual, useless nasty, wider natured but fundamentally serious terrible three-day hateful ongoing ukrainian civil wild-eyed, long-range imminent atomic wrenching civil unceasing eternal whole, upcoming imminent civil endless, devastating eternal, mutual unilateral, total almost civil serious civil obscure but remarkable endless dreadful diversionary foreign soon civil unexpected civil cheap minor little interplanetary immediate atomic disorganized, unpublicized ongoing senatorial damned, crazy catastrophic civil deliberate nuclear alive private polite cold horrifically devastating ghastly civil old-fashioned twentieth-century nascent religious explosive-total more explosive-total virtually civil galactic cold real devastating general nuclear onerously long otherwise defensive long-running civil systematic and relentless likely interstellar classic nuclear twentieth-century nuclear second interstellar long, covert secret, endless nasty dynastic continuous, clandestine dangerous colonial picturesque, adventurous costly civil brief factional ugly three-way iraqi civil bloody and incessant fratricidal civil frightful and calamitous dangerous civil immeasurable civil foreign or civil second anglo-dutch great and unsuccessful french ironclad longest and most uncertain private and undeclared pitiless and effective grim and sudden afghan civil old famed normally modern downright civil cruel predatory long and relentless late hungarian murderous european invasive and defensive just invasive sforza--general einzigemal fresh servile incessant civil indecisive predatory unsuccessful and calamitous african or libyan simply practised lifelong perpetual righteous civil partial nor general unjust and most bloody bloody & most expensive perpetual bloody spiritual civil able, eternal momentous civil afterwards civil zeal, unequal wretched religious bloody harmonious furious and victorious unnecessary and aggressive premature civil revolutionary offensive unscrupulous and futile large and salubrious memorable burgundian revolutionary or civil busy and circumspect three-year civil fifth turkish notoriously swollen daily heart-to-heart fearful and sad superfluous and unnecessarily brutal italian or social terrible rebellious irish civil probably civil real civil full-fledged civil savage ancient arduous and bloody worst civil bloody and unnecessary formal civil deliberately preferred arab-israeli unfortunate civil subsequent civil violent civil lebanese civil incidental little long and destructive secret and irreconcilable relentless, endless decisive technological chaotic civil ruinous and bloody aggressive and unjust merry pleasant further civil veritable civil bloody european late afghan disastrous continental destructive foreign romantic, picturesque still stupendous present european large-scale nuclear unhappy civil bitter long international nuclear fourth religious silent, ecstatic hopelessly unequal expensive and ruinous great servile continuous civil fratricidal actual civil new civil unjust, illegal protracted modern minimally destructive intermatricial shocking civil worse, independent mutual dependent quiet but very thorough short undeclared planetary, interplanetary surely interplanetary protracted, debilitating unprecedented full-scale sure civil unofficial naval fantastic civil greatest and most futile bloody, merciless dirty, colonial usually long and bloody world-wide thermonuclear brief, successful brief, unheralded terrible fratricidal hysterical and ineffective bloody earthbound full-scale and nasty major nasty divisive civil endless, no-win effective conventional sporadic civil minor, scrappy immoral, undeclared total atomic un-thinkably violent suicidal civil potentially never-ending winless damaging civil drawn-out civil tempting civil chosen-imperial land-imperial informal civil pointless verbal loud, whooping mutually disastrous ongoing and glorious all-out bloody brutal all-out interminable local shudderingly robust disastrous magical awesomely stupid stupid, needless bloodiest, deadliest pointless, bloody eventually outright undeclared, undercover real, large-scale all-out interplanetary full-scale thermonuclear brutal, divisive costly minor intelligent, charismatic flaming, total evil, senseless worse civil mysterious and meaningless eighteenth imperial appalling atomic blind promiscuous secret and splendid capricious civil immoral, useless dial interstellar galactic civil silent and apparently peaceful tough urban considerably testy aimless, devastating three-way civil protracted destructive legendary nipponese same anglo-dutch different anglo-dutch dysfunctional but gamely persistent long-awaited nuclear costly debilitating simultaneous civil bruising civil miserable, three-cornered ruthless, fratricidal new paramount extremely high-intensity tragic and accidental silent but forceful long-term, low-key suicidal lone limited major murderous civil unpleasant civil long and potentially devastating leisurely herbaceous unnecessary and tragically pointless tragically pointless constant, long iranian civil disastrous three-way ongoing cold ongoing unofficial entire, absurd secret quiet imminent interstellar brief and nasty rather brief and nasty polite and very bloody international cold social and even military senseless and ruinous uninterrupted civil desultory indecisive hideous and incomparable stupendous and disastrous now secret or open steady or durable blind, promiscuous defensive or even aggressive new and probably tedious utterly exorbitant civil and fraternal revolutionary, civil joint defensive dire, unequal tedious and important french, principal tremendous european inspiring massive next inter-imperial dirty devilish unfortunate danish natural, unceasing weak and aggressive inevitably bloody and cruel inevitably bloody active and pregnant mental civil shrewd, tireless mountainous and inglorious turbulent tribal long and partially successful extensive nuclear wholesome, continental severe and hopeless desperate, unrelenting righteous and meritorious interfraternal protracted and destructive unnatural and invidious furious and injurious fierce european desultory and tiresome unjust and aggressive cruelest civil difficult civil past civil exceptionally great and violent bloody and unprofitable unfortunate and wholly unnecessary purely methodical conspicuously brilliant and successful appalling european tedious and destructive unsuccessful foreign avoidable bloody iniquitous mexican british, long doubtful and most severe eternal tides--eternal incessant predatory tedious and unsuccessful equally certain and inevitable bitter ruthless bitter and ruinous fierce, high-pitched unjustifiable, iniquitous and barbarous defensive civil ceaseless and implacable devastating, bloody brilliant wordy servile civil unjust and bloody democratic mexican rousing civil mercenary and savage late and most disastrous fruitless civil second armenian single and energetic infamous and needless your chief infamous and sordid universal and mighty vigorous and protracted long and reactionary ruinous interracial justifiable and indeed necessary repeal or civil unpopular and disastrous cruel and pitiable predatory, foreign triumphant patriotic long chargeable superstitious and interested long, barbarous possibly indecisive long and possibly indecisive offensive and not defensive three-year or four-year deadliest and costliest devastating and most cruel frankly aggressive incessant and frankly aggressive vast and protracted perennial and noxious indefinite civil monstrous worldwide cruel and most disastrous particular and memorable pleasant, perpetual amazing mad aggressive or selfish fierce, shallow desultory and destructive offensive or preventive always expensive and detrimental new and protracted ruinous and unnecessary theoretically thorough natural and unofficial disastrous and self-sacrificing victorious but unjust holiest defensive servile and horrible sectional civil servile or social nice, appropriate gigantic universal deadliest and most expensive great and most successful protracted successful passport--really serious ferocious religious obstinate & destructive probable and dubious aesthetic appeal noble defensive mischievous, predatory inveterate ineffective imminent universal justifiable civil horrible fraternal necessary spanish troublesome bavarian internecional inglorious and ineffectual sectional and civil useless and bloody unjust, devilish incessant desultory fruitless and wrongful gray and civil disastrous never-to-be-forgotten useless ridiculous hobbesial bloody and eternal useless and ruinous advertisemental so-called tense other and civil bloodless religious fierce inter-tribal revolting civil civil, unnatural indeed great and overwhelming toilsome and vexatious unnecessary and insane absolutely unnecessary and insane ruthless and devastating destructive maritime imperfect official inconceivably destructive wider sectarian bloody and uninterrupted empty foreign frivolous civil necessarily cruel and barbarous necessarily cruel dreary maritime longest and most obstinate terrific revolutionary intense and ruthless hopeless french particularly quiet and uneventful sixth civil inglorious french triumphant foreign dreadful sinful creative or foundational brief belgian long, terrible and expensive terrible and expensive unjust and useless bloody and unjust last napoleonic formidable last middle-aged but very dapper fratricidal and bloody triumphant glorious bitter three-year cruel fratricidal victorious and very popular preliminary civil annual peaceful always civil colossal and gruesome unlimited and incessant supply captive last khaki chiefly economic and geographical unremitting and many-sided unrelenting and unceasing secret and systematic secret and effective uncivil and very gruesome vigorous, offensive honorable satirical resultant cataclysmic chronic peaceful unsuccessful servile difficult, defensive short but merciless again hideous further wordy now defensive desperate commercial desultory and ferocious appreciably nearer long, inconclusive greatest and most bloody brisk triumphant terrible anticlerical insane and utterly needless aggressive, sectional big incumbent effective and unceasing long humiliating official and amazingly cynical useless but ferocious calamitous and unfortunate aggressive and indomitable thirsty and strategical timid half-hearted indiscriminate verbal defensive and destructive expensive and bloody continual underground incessant but unsuccessful perpetual, secret covert but decisive last and indecisive aimless, cruel overt and bloody calamitous civil rapid-fire editorial merciless fratricidal perverse, eternal fierce interminable ancient, ceaseless active desultory merry civil unjust and expensive short and almost insignificant seemingly immortal cruel, civil minor intertribal secret and often bloody next well-organized interior and perpetual imminent, foreign secret and vindictive unending subterranean serious religious-racial religious-racial covert civil occasional wordy grim civil least blatant fifth austrian bitterest and longest fierce but desultory perhaps servile great unimpaired distant and unusual frightful, useless manifestly insincere and inadequate relentless civil gigantic fraternal incessant and effective eighth austrian reckless or merely aggressive present outrageous indefensible internal sacramental religious ill-prepared belgian holy chinese pure and holy chinese short but most disastrous messy damn open, civil popular but most unjust savage and unnecessary patriotic evangelical aggressive and criminal agrarian civil grievous and unhappy bloody and most expensive boring and extremely inconvenient unparalleled civil inflamed domestic monstrous japanese recent libyan external nor civil aside civil triumphant civil hot controversial fair or legitimate nordic civil decorous and inglorious offensive religious ruinous afghan horrid fraternal punitive little heroic and criminal disastrous swedish factional civil colombian civil terrible chilean probably inglorious extremely interesting and realistic irksome, windy unsafe, internal hazardous and bloody inglorious native monstrously wasteful demented spanish present anti-catholic expensive and calamitous gigantic fratricidal disastrous, impracticable unholy fratricidal infinite inevitable onnathral defensive but relentless active and obstinate suicidal and unchristian disastrous turkish open and civil unfinished civil practically maritime awful and deplorable pitiless civil unfortunate and cruel unsatisfactory and distressing terrible but most interesting dreadful servile fratricidal religious doubtful and aggressive bloody sectional consequent sectional distressing civil clandestine and grossly criminal parra--parracidal great or national long and mutually disastrous witty, pedantic finally civil chronic european exceptionally ferocious new and exceptionally ferocious scientific and very expensive imaginary civil pernicious, unnecessary perilous civil sovereign, civil harmonious civil much-coveted french unorganized, ferocious expensive and humiliating ruinous and unsuccessful unimportant civil open and interminable disastrous fratricidal interminable economic lengthy and formidable defensive but not offensive generally successful or unfortunate disloyal and foolish devastating irish comprehensive and successful protracted and most embarrassing war--real genuine everlasting private indecisive and inglorious unavoidable civil continuous petty appalling problematic pitiless inner serryal wan serryal fierce rabid glorious but harmless short and rather uneventful grandiose and lumbering

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Words to Describe war

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "war" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "war" are: impending civil, second global, terrible civil, late civil, and bloody, indecisive. There are 995 other words to describe war listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe war 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, "war" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many war 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 war?

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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