Describing Wordsfor Darkness

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Here are some adjectives for darkness: enormous uncanny, soon actual, cool chemical, cold and impregnable, blank clear, warm, numbing, weary and secretive, peculiarly textured, savage and impenetrable, unprotected, unsuspecting, thick, magical, muddy, windy, vast and horrifying, viscous, sentient, dense and frightful, dim granular, above--only utter and impenetrable, above--only utter, comfortable total, impenetrable utter, silken warm, unseen but still real, ignorant and cold, abrupt and utter, cold and utter, grayer, softer, fearful, mind-numbing, swift, vast, magnificent, hideous, relentless and hopeless. You can get the definitions of these darkness adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to darkness (and find more here).

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Words to Describe darkness

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

enormous uncanny soon actual cool chemical cold and impregnable blank clear warm, numbing weary and secretive peculiarly textured savage and impenetrable unprotected, unsuspecting thick, magical muddy, windy vast and horrifying viscous, sentient dense and frightful dim granular above--only utter and impenetrable above--only utter comfortable total impenetrable utter silken warm unseen but still real ignorant and cold abrupt and utter
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cold and utter grayer, softer fearful, mind-numbing swift, vast magnificent, hideous relentless and hopeless private and wonderfully safe soft, intrusive sallow, southern soft, impenetrable evil treacherous cold or radiant sodden and utter hollow warm deathly blind permanent and greater greenish deep-sea surprisingly seamless long, abnormal utterly divine and natural almost stygian dense incalculable opaque and almost sensible quiet and pale thick, terrible blank and heavy far-off, high-up cool, cloying still thick and unbroken concrete, more empty, watchful vast and utter menacing and ponderous chilly silent increasingly stygian horrible, voiceless cozy, shadowy bigger moist vague, deeper open, sudden utter and pagan soft, outer unusual and very long short and sacred cold and appalling utmost sensuous thick swiss absolute watery dense and total half-transparent, fragrant homely sepulchral utter and impenetrable cold and eternal eternal, horrible thick underground foul contagious thick, stuffy sudden worldwide hollow unending featureless, abyssal neutral, toneless profound, disturbing impossible, impenetrable vast and tiny absolute and unrelieved open lustrous uneasy, empty black absolute towering massive silent and unrelieved premature and preternatural thick and absolute eventually cool thick and abiding obscure and rocky thin, indefinite oppressive warm monstrous, invasive hot, gluey vile and leaden tangled, desperate new clotted deeper and lesser almost nocturnal provocative alluring soft merciless impenetrable, silent ltotal blind torrential wet adhesive abject, silent shadowy and reddish gloomy and mystic limitless, empty utter, liquid chilly equinoctial grievous and oppressive horrible, utter pure and blank fancy and sheer smoky, impenetrable soon gross quasi-nocturnal extreme, eternal enlightened thy molten amethystine intense and impenetrable deep and dazzling unknown, damp visible overwhelming rainy outer dim, tremulous dense total blind and outer deeper pagan strangely deceptive intolerable, impenetrable miraculous and palpable stronger, intellectual inert, alien sacred creative flat, translucent rich sun-warmed littlest little deep but dazzling drunken or stupid sudden pervasive dutiful and vigilant quick equatorial queer, sorrowful shadowy pale utterly divine moist velvety gloomy cavernous almost total brief and inexplicable nearly total awful cruel complete and utterly black compassionate, all-knowing dank and slippery proximal three-fourths safe smoky italian, large unoccupied and indefinite great and impenetrable dank and empty empty and total cool but totally frightening relatively total perfect conversational later utter bleak, total horrible damp vaguely darker opaque and silent cramped, evil blissful final utter and desolate familiar earthy complete and oblivious sluggish molten primitive possessive equally supernatural swift, endless thirteenth long now suggestive obscure, bitter overhead but cloudy unreadable, frightening cool, absolute stars-total warm breezy dire dreary rainy predawn wet, pre-dawn gusty, rainy purest stygian friendly primal ultimate, primal otherwise everlasting otherwise uttermost frighteningly total back saddened total, unfathomable green radiant green, restful grim and bright dense, high-security peruvian instant protective but also dangerous thick, fierce dead and clammy swift, purpureal flat, total cloying tropical old unreadable smudged outdoor velvety perfumed callous, impersonal blank, clear wide, alluring suggestive, sensual palpable obscure dismal and almost constant greedy mutinous horrible daytime literally egyptian familiar outer probably blank restful, mysterious again egyptian infinite and impenetrable sensitive, luminous dreadful, scented thick, unexplored far impenetrable deep, weird colder green outer and blacker silent, pre-dawn fearful and impenetrable soft blind blue or such outer and unfathomable utter and unexpected huge injurious different harsher contemplative, passionate hushed, gross thickest spiritual deep, cloying scented, velvety cavernous and boundless strange, unredeemed harsh nether thick frosty soft and impenetrable imperceptible mystic late uncommon tangible white beloved and brief horrible, interminable windy raw profound and comparatively complete primal, unending calm scented murky indoor sombre, dirty perfumed, shadowy inhuman passionate medi-oeval accordingly intense dense heathen bitter, blank softly vocal thickest heathen darkness--real egyptian dense spiritual quiet hallowed thick and fearful black and inscrutable dank and lifeless thick anti-christian evil and outer outer and utter now unaccountable swift, southern opaque, horrifying thick, numbing pleasantly dubious painful, impenetrable awful and convenient apparently inscrutable hot, fecund gray, tempestuous opaque and lifeless awful gloomy deep chaotic dank and clammy dreadful and almost total silent, velvety clammy moral brave murky awful outer extraordinarily liquid and transparent extraordinarily liquid fragrant, flower-scented apparently deeper indescribable inner fitfully mental sudden material dense, purple misty, baffling soft, blank thick, unfathomable intense, oppressive artificial darwinian else egyptian hour--congenial gusty, secretive black and total cold and windless judicial and temporary maddening, perplexing utter impenetrable intense shadowy thick and perpetual next comparative complete and rather terrifying unfulfilled, moral total and palpable inner, individual sweet and final sweet, disquieting cold and unsheltered impenetrable, maddening thick and smoky still deep and dense cold, perpetual fetid inner own opaque ultimate and essential welcome total peaceful and fresh sudden semi-tropical sheer chaotic faintly thunderous utter, outer pervadingly malignant deeper and worse thick vague clear, dull blind abysmal <def>intellectual and moral near-total thick, unnatural soft, blind rather lesser almost sensible new and unfathomable otherwise total intense speckled thick, palpable familiar mortal vast uncertain less impenetrable vast humid evil, magical soft, blinding quiet wet once total harsh, uncaring black or pale black, sheer green, windswept thick and awful possibly associate gross and thick blank, thick ineffable black also greatest silent, horrible same stygian more and complete almost outer cloudy, warm predawn strangely hushed hot breathless long and dim vast, overpowering red foggy golden warm terrible outer numb indistinct least total deep and substantial thick, evil utter, unrelieved unexpected and unaccountable sudden partial same palpable unknown outer wonderfully safe less opaque terrible, menacing possibly deranged and murderous more stygian evil, pure mysterious, frightening lone dumb eerily unrelieved clammy, claustrophobic sultry humid shallow, fitful fragrant predawn cold utter warm nameless peculiar vivid slick, ever-swelling steadily deeper fugitinal fiery, constricted velvety tragic totally frightening utter outer instant, absolute sibilant hot fetid fecund “perpetual else perpetual cordially receptive overwhelmingly depressing abstract, troubling misty, predawn them-only utter <p>total, absolute endless, hungry black and utter soon total soft myriad soulless empty rich, sour former furrowed heavily green-tinted icy predawn lean, exotic weird, gray final and deeper hideous, clammy horrible, enigmatic impenetrable smoky blinding brown <em>primordial amorphous, vacant just perpetual deeper uglier mingly endless rotten, utter gray, undependable acrid, smoke-filled velvety and total mercifully dreamless wise perfect previously oppressive total, claustrophobic terrifyingly immense firefly speckled evil, purposeful cold, maroon silent, predawn abrupt, total terrible, mind-numbing safe drab clear but intense deep, complete striped and stippled eerily striped and stippled eerily striped frightful, turbulent otherwise stygian sudden impenetrable cold, squalid nearly year-round rainy, impenetrable comfortable, silent resultant impenetrable suddenly crisp humid, watery together complete smooth calm cold and noisy cramped tight thick oblivious dense and velvety inexplicable inner momentary but still terrifying interminable and chaotic solid and rigid quite-total trackless, frigid abysmal, wet and-total and�total orange misty utter interior sheer dull sudden and virtually complete sudden and furtive gross underground utter and unimaginable limitless, featureless total, disconcerting sleek, rectangular peaceful subsurface motionless, darker heavy pre-dawn tight and final narrow, utter ignoble and fearful moist and fecund loving, comfortable complete, cold thick, blind true nighttime commonplace and so common windy predawn suddenly empty and cold increasingly smoky clammy, cool shriekingly empty voracious, hungry anomalous cold cosmic and uncaring soft and companionable greater, secret empty, dreamless pure, infinite vast and frigid unending, unyielding reassuringly total post-ictal strategically colored airless distant infinite, hungry usual unrelieved comfortably cool and moist endless, protective wondrous grim thick sweaty them—total complete and possibly unnatural black, welcome soft, painless artificial, dangerous inexplicable black sheer, dank hazy crimson profound journalistic uncaring, hollow snowy bloodstained comfortingly silent fragrant indonesian now near-total black but total soft, pre-dawn still full and thick strange insubstantial profound, calmer perpetual self-imposed thick insidious febrile and muscular tight, foul profound stygian far taller and broader unchanging subterranean mercifully quiet purple predawn murky psychic impossible, maniacal profound and utter utter, stygian deep and dense impenetrable and terrific dense nocturnal opaque, thick cold and hideous grim and greedy warm and tranquil almost murky thin, lofty cold dumb moist, dense profound, terrible thick unbroken clean and sane mere thick sudden and baffling thick moral blank thick deep but calm meanwhile full mental and visual intense, uncanny mistress>mental full expressive thick, awful empty luminous appalling unnatural urgent, total perfectly egyptian wholesome solemn black, depressing vast ominous blackest and most thickest solemn upper endless outer travelled, mid forward thick intense egyptian deepest heathen soon complete short alaskan post-sensual destructive, non-sensical thick textured impenetrable and oppressive frightful gross hitherto egyptian vague and slight unknown, utter alert slender utter and indescribable cold and outer actual comparative horrid and impenetrable thick lurid profound and horrid utter, impenetrable dry, volcanic awful, cruel stormy outer liquid and transparent downright sheer ominous and tangible utter tangible next total far-away central blank impenetrable hitherto persistent grim, impenetrable optically impenetrable blank, palpable entire unbroken later extreme evidently total never blank often tempestuous blank, absolute dense, awful «truly mystical �truly mystical utter and palpable exactly egyptian already overpowering dire intellectual utter weighty more, welcome moral or spritual vast, raw blank, dumb absorbent gray utter desolate again impenetrable icy purple now thicker scientific electrical impenetrable moral preternatural and awful complete sinister more, impenetrable thunderous and terrifying lesser outer silky and wonderful cold rotten <def>partial or total unending and solid immense and hollow now total utter profound black just liquid cold, terrifying stygian deepest and profoundest same velvety wet, dank thick egyptian cold and impenetrable rather spanish black, velvety same misty pre-dawn impenetrable cool, heavy rich, silent comparatively complete thick and fetid absolutely total nocturnal or wintry calm warm cool quiet complete and solid last dangerous deep, impenetrable almost utter empty interior long, lurid rough, massive much unrelieved warm intimate solid, featureless suddenly chaotic dense and tropical sparkling celestial utter empty dank and humid same stagnant less dizzying cold familiar blue, luminous new, all-consuming misty predawn raw, sour illiterate and superstitious comparative spiritual social, moral and political picturesque and productive cavernous upper often impenetrable blank, mysterious entirely sordid dim tremulous deep and visible long total sudden and deeper thick and gross vast, hideous down everlasting little doubtful long inert less murky perfect and impenetrable cavernous blue illuminating human glad, full pure and frosty strangely resonant black blinding early predawn entire blank else silent sudden and sad dense, velvety profound and perpetual such outer cool, peaceful cold and thick almost unalloyed oppressively silent soon full suddenly complete clear, purple vast, dry cold swiss dead, opaque thick snowy huge and frightening absolute and impenetrable truly mystical utter and awful dry, thick thick impenetrable warm and luminous total divine and natural clean modern utter spiritual soft leafy deranged and murderous >perpetual terrible and greatest soon true heavy, primordial total, overwhelming silent cathedral brief sparkling more dank perfect, endless mysterious, fearsome seemingly opaque own abiding black, abiding dusty warm long, prone less barbaric unnatural, malevolent featureless, impenetrable silent, unblinking frictionless liquid cool, stagnant distant, bluish moist and beautiful little sentient fractionally lighter complete and seamless pre-virtual upper and deeper terrifying red strange, indistinguishable sudden, velvety still terrifying rather lighter complete and impenetrable whole wakeful cool scented eternal, icy deep, unforgiving utter overwhelming cold, cloying infinite empty icy interstellar odd, eerie thicker, warmer pure bottomless great, unanswered wet, wooded oppressive, unnatural luminous sepia wet, sweaty still sweltering pure unyielding such unrelieved possibly unnatural distant and ineffable smoky, acrid immense, impenetrable warm, cloying total and inexplicable deep early-morning pale, empty vast rusty same blue-black ugly hot suddenly welcome black and dizzy ethe­real heavy and pervasive broad peaceful solid egyptian much outer utter and eternal again profound quiet, painless deep distant black despairing dreary, blank blank, impenetrable decidedly bilious ruddy human vague and hollow almost sulphurous deep and impenetrable tense, electric away spiritual outer social strange, momentary translucent, greenish warm flower-scented awful hopeless distant, indefinite swift, appalling such all-pervading terrible and gloomy dense, moist thick oppressive thick rainy terrible arctic intense, silent great, blank dim, thick sad spiritual blacker and blacker unknown and unexplored remarkable and unexplained near-complete same shapeless utter, utter thick, impenetrable thick, hot sudden, total soft, dense cool and grateful certain nebulous vague sweet little thick sub-continental strange watery such opaque nearly tangible terrible, relentless odd, white otherwise absolute deaf, blind thin, bluish short tropical absolute historical comparative intellectual artificial mental far wild hot, noisy dark, foul few steadfast eerie undersea seldom true curious, thin deep and lustrous almost never-ending cold, awful great, cool otherwise eternal cold stony cold and menacing warm, fetid great, windy overvaulting almost egyptian deep dumb black blank soft virgin hopeless intellectual almost heathenish black ominous thick coal great palpable perhaps complete dense mental gruesome green wild, awful former silent ever quick bleak, stormy <def>partial outer pure and undiluted thick and gloomy chasmal sudden total large and silent dead and dusty thick, full eerie and unnatural deep western smoothly undulating almost profound utterly impenetrable almost complete vast and empty soft, cloudy thick and impenetrable almost unrelieved possibly deranged dank, hot pitiless and relentless silvery moonlit horrible, cold blessedly silent same fearsome awful, absolute beautiful liquid strange sparkling thick evil black, absolute heavy curtained dirty, windy safe cool utter, awful fierce, shaggy natural olive distant lower noisy wet tight, silent utter, bitter just unbroken

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Words to Describe darkness

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "darkness" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "darkness" are: enormous uncanny, soon actual, cool chemical, cold and impregnable, and blank clear. There are 994 other words to describe darkness listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe darkness 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, "darkness" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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