Describing Wordsfor Light

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Here are some adjectives for light: zodial, mystic and ethereal, cool colorless, green ready, gray, uncertain, sudden blue-green, thick, amber, early pale, dim lateral, erratic amber, lame phosphorescent, fierce liquid, brutally white, mild opalescent, pervasive red, near-solid blue, mad, inner, dim religious, faint predawn, tawny and intermittent, remote cool, ghostly undersea, paltry grey, dreary outdoor, cold fascinating, dim irritating, reddish, unequal, sooty amber, dim, steady, grubby, second-hand. You can get the definitions of these light adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to light (and find more here).

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Words to Describe light

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

zodial mystic and ethereal cool colorless green ready gray, uncertain sudden blue-green thick, amber early pale dim lateral erratic amber lame phosphorescent fierce liquid brutally white mild opalescent pervasive red near-solid blue mad, inner dim religious faint predawn tawny and intermittent remote cool ghostly undersea paltry grey dreary outdoor cold fascinating dim irritating reddish, unequal sooty amber dim, steady grubby, second-hand dim but valuable dreamy and magical
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strong blinding white, magical sinister electric enough pre-dawn still wild and fresh new and lurid rich and amber own, horrid busy, greenish stale undersea dim but clear fierce supernatural red and noisy dim, religious impersonal colored spectral lunar golden, malevolent inner diffuse dim and yellow greasy, flat speculative, open deathless purple great and torrential unchanging silvery spun-crystal white and continuous doubtful and malignant strongest and most odious clearer and fairer french fantastical sufficiently inadequate bleak uneasy faint zodiacal wan, illusive unnaturally dim pale fluorescent eerie, inner incredible blinding decent artificial clean impersonal silvery unchanging harsh dull purposefully blinding somewhat stark orange ready cold virginal rusty, yellowish useful nice sad, oblique pure and endless smaller, mobile rosy, supernal unpleasant livid sullen reddish vivid and blinding concrete and harsh soft but adequate eerie snowy striped cold inner, rhythmic open and dim slowly open and dim strange and perfectly dreamy lone pallid lone lurid hideous leaden infrared, visible faint and limited unseen blinding fitful but vivid intense but mysterious faint but satisfying false and pallid purple, fiery gentle, bluish glaring, evil faintest nocturnal dim, murky monochrome green sultry red enough coloured wan, tricky halfway direct incredible, blinding gently flattering rare and gently flattering wide, brighter unfamiliar dim predawn ultraviolet evidently condensed poor pedestrian intense amber faint and lurid rapid-fire little blinding, agonizing full, crystal eerie, radiant cheerful, blue-green faint, mobile eerie, purple-black direct silvery anemic electric powerful, silvery wrong, blinding pale electronic metal, blue eventually gray smoky, uncertain dim and thoughtful warm multicolored battery-powered signal same directionless unfamiliar electrical actually simple and trifling unaccountable greenish indirectly intense top, dim uncertain yellow more, green unsteady golden ever indifferent fragile, weak low-power red quiet and faint wonderful, silvery abundant clear soft but brilliant wan, deceptive red malign yellow, mournful dim predawn dim, crimson powerful oblique misty orange suddenly brighter angry, painful sulphurous white feeble, painful harsh brilliant misty leaden light-real suddenly extra light�real lustrous, green-tinted deep, pink transcendent golden oddly hazy mighty zodiacal original and direct blue ultraviolet steady but pale weak and unprofessional pure and invulnerable sullen, reddish sparkling, brittle red and balanced pale pre-dawn ruddy, low-lying arcane purple weak, gray surpassingly vivid safe, ancient tiny steady especially bright and rosy orange early-morning dim, uneven amber white adequate but restful weak, chalky meager, milky gray but welcome reddish, late-afternoon pleasant greenish soft directionless blue and intense soft, monochrome uncertain fluorescent monstrous, bluish yellowish, warm weaker late-afternoon ghastly golden blinding, beautiful seamless fluorescent pearly snowy feeble overhead pitiless fluorescent visible bluish unexpected red unfamiliar lurid clear pagan ludicrous and degrading delicious lunar possible, external fugitive and gracious vivid high exceedingly faint and languid unwholesome and enormously expensive interminable, inevitable fierce and insufferable gaudy, perplexed grave and mellow variable, pleasant mournful western ruddy capricious pale and sepulchral strong but funereal garish, cruel still uncertain and feeble astounding white desirable, clear peculiar baleful audible southern fiercely emphatic wavy, tremulous broad diffuse unnecessary and portentous gloomy, livid eerie bluish wild lurid wicked green grey predawn weird, reddish dim early-morning dim, inner fitful, sputtering fierce purple large eternal pale and chancy dim shifty vague shifty fat, blinking unaccustomed yellow ol colored pale and different mild, unfocused yellowish indoor assembly signal arctic signal gentle golden momentary yellow rich, horizontal red-and-white double same smokeless awake, silver-gray harsh fluorescent far-reaching white red subterranean softer, wider pervasive gray awesome, unnatural weird greenish pink and clear wan, rosy brisk, interior dazzling overhead watery, mawkish awful, radiant softer darker diffuse and silvery satisfyingly brilliant bright artifi-cial reluctant amber odious and formidable serious and criminal warm, useful abrupt, blinding all-pervading and translucent wondrous, all-pervading and translucent dark, joyous nearly amber faint turquoise intolerable white sickly emerald bleak and ruddy romantically dim faint poetic overwhelming, blinding feverish, urgent righteous white improbable white great and primordial crystalline, revelatory odd, greenish feral, anticipatory thin, sullen artificially balanced brilliant, incomparable lurid artificial brief, crafty low, stubborn mellow spiritual bluish lunar partial and fragile dull faint grim unsteady rich oblique seemingly ineffectual garish artificial grainy, gritty yellow sputtering pitiless coherent clearer, brighter divine strange sickly green and yellow various and most charming pale weird soft and iridescent red and dusky golden and gracious meteoric and solar soft and planetary pale, dismal comparatively white strong spectral noumenal cosmic prodigious orange fitful, red dull, fictitious pure certain purest, fullest brilliant, reverent silently open and amber open and amber white supernal moist rosy solitary electric pale predawn dim weird radiant axial brilliant full gray predawn comfortable, cozy harsh white gray, predawn raw orange overhead and white glorious, stinging weird scarlet inner and divine intense white dim, silvery grey pre-dawn enough faint soft and wondrous shrill grey eerie, green ordinary visible incandescent electric steady, passionate dim discreet surprisingly feral truly dim blindly bright weird intense curiously ineffective dim artificial indirect artificial shallow exterior sizzling, colored sputtering, smoky ruddy and fitful calm and fluorescent diffuse grey quilted soft echoingly rhythmical internal white dim dappled mellow greenish ghostly greenish comfortable, humorous milder, clearer phosphorescent intelligent weak silvery intense yellowish strong fluorescent yellow monochromatic bright indirect suddenly dazzling dim, eerie high-intensity ultraviolet open feeble dim, greenish smoky, fiery diffuse, pale pure, monochromatic hot dishonest bland artificial unstable brown appropriately red red coherent direct, clean compact, baleful fatal and pitiless sudden emerald cold turquoise gray opalescent dim but pervasive solitary, feeble vibrant, golden dim and futile pale and flaming yellow, infernal unintentionally uninformed coherent red coherent green fitful amber dim clear somber, late-day mellow, shadowy sick greenish satisfactory green unsettling ghoulish harsh golden fickle yellow evil much grey, pallid low predawn silvery, unreal soft but somehow unpleasant back orange cool, quicksilver much infrared ordinary, yellow eerie whitish eerie, whitish astounding high dim aqueous dim, ghoulish lucid golden strong, late-afternoon unending harsh dusky, reddish wan and murky intermittent and filmy generous fragrant feeble and gloomy faint benign uneven golden enough detachable mellow and steady uncertain, cloudy viciously white happily triumphant hellcoal silvery nordic embarrassing, greenish red and fitful quiet halcyon monstrously bright tiny, blue-green dreadful emerald dull fitful evil ruddy delicate green-tinted dreary red warm, colorless wan greenish dull or cloudy wan and fitful frivolous, contemptible intense but never brilliant --real, honest yellowish artificial inexpensive artificial immeasurable and ineffable ready nice lavish electric large and national wavy, greenish purple or lurid contemptible or odious sufficient pale cold and subordinate idioretinal steady intense magical clear shrill intrusive red and suspicious wan, sinister monochromatic yellow-green vaguely fluorescent ruddy, uncertain instantaneous and intensely vivid feeble available false glaring scanty, uncertain ultra-violet or invisible dim, unsteady weird, ruddy weird, yellow thy god-given strong but lurid fair, ethereal uncanny tawny awful but glorious especially useful and powerful ineffable, insufferable clearer, better baleful and ominous simple but equally careful strong bluish lesser supplementary remorseless white real genial yon humid forth unsteady lurid, sombre green, ghostlike faint and fickle peculiarly golden red homogeneal direct stellar mild, mysterious mellow, amber mysterious zodiacal bland central vivid and gay dusky and imperfect clear but immature clear, plentiful meek clear now vagrant curious ironical wee scarlet soft brazen steady and planetary same justifiable unpleasant and doubtful ardent, penetrating favorable and translucent ineffable and inaccessible brightest central fearful, dazzling sickly electric silken, balmy acceptable or effective unpleasant bright murky, yellowish stronger dominant shy but irresistible steady and wholesome vivid and inartificial sharp jeweled splendid and perfectly steady temperate blue partial, artificial harder, greedier stark and merciless fearful speculative superb, heavy ugly electric steady lustrous dim and inferential dazzling and garish advantageous and amiable high, emphatic much and welcome harsh repellent lurid brazen indefinite grey always electric dim, aesthetic dim and pleasing dim, external insolent and victorious dazzling but funereal bright lateral dull lateral obscure lateral true and very perfect dim bluish spectral yellow tiny but bright painful yellow painful purple infernal blue dim mauve clear dim cold reddish red and smoky brilliant magical enough ruddy cold flaming spectral gray brilliant and priceless blinking fluorescent glad strange weird, bluish red eastern thine unbroken dim, mellow broad and glaring steady yellow zodiacal strong yellowish dim uncertain harsh yellow dim, uncertain enough orange endless cubic bright phosphorescent stark fluorescent eerie predawn harsh artificial tiny, steady cold, weird bright artificial bright fluorescent new and unfavorable dim nocturnal enough dim hazy pink weak gray dim overhead weak yellow dim different and decidedly sinister cold glaring vague, shifty sole dim hard baleful icy monstrous gentler white pallid red implacable cold sudden unthinkable brilliant but not glaring coherent monochromatic dimmer orange and yellow bright diffuse still bright and strong harsh, sulphurous warm, insubstantial eerie jovian incongruously cozy diffuse purple bright, antiseptic diffuse, ruddy inner golden marvelous vernal vivid dangerous fierce hungry fifth red smoky scarlet harsh bluish cold early-morning warm but wintry strongest or brightest bright or brighter feeble but very welcome vague, treacherous wicked greenish sickly insufficient strange, baleful light--normal red light--normal white unbearable increasingly steady dull, magical varicolored radiant decent all-night bright, indirect blinding electrical internal yellow cloudy, late-afternoon single hazy orange, dirty constant dim fungal green smooth, intense charming and deceptive illusive grey strangely indecisive ample silvery gradually faint cruel, grey deep infrared wan pre-dawn innermost lustral murky, fiery blinding overhead utterly forlorn and pitiable new and not unwelcome rougher and very different transparent, cool brighter, harsher glaring, fluorescent strong explanatory soft eerie dazzling, multicolored magical, enchanting dark unforgettable steely predawn colorless pre-dawn white, fiery glowcoral fierce and arcane fitful, evasive eerie and pervasive dim and bluish vivid auroral strong, uncanny pure hazy fine, dazzling strange magenta gleeful, greedy dim pre-dawn grey, predawn critically vulgar rich hazy ethereal blue-black cold, internal energetic green artificial, monochromatic blinding emerald eccentric, striking murky bluish bright, unforgiving red and fearful false, quicksilver murky whitish softer, brighter soft iridescent scintillating white customary green bright outdoor slightly amber intermittently blinking unchanging pale fickle green faint and lofty dim verdant fainter golden dusty lavender almost illusionary orange, erratic soft nether lovely various stringent yellow thin and listless cool electric <p>sickly green moody amber featureless emerald red, green and amber rich and steady sole faint sometimes best steady leviathan white leviathan pale, dreary ethereal thunderous white, artificial cool, opalescent vivid late-afternoon harsh and feral dingy and yellow golden or bluish bleak and blacker clean calm dim and unsteady glaring, unsteady dazzling and wan gray and pitiful glorious, consonant aloof and pitiless endless, black flat and dim visual green misty electric feeble and alternate false, enchanting ghastly phosphorescent new and somewhat ominous great fatal beauteous azure grainy, lousy dappled, green subtle greenish dim vermilion now red and yellow dim but loving weird yellow-green overhead red overhead green harsh and unsteady feeble, greenish bright unforgiving uncertain gray fierce, gleeful vague phosphorescent golden, dusky mellow electric monochromatic ultraviolet sudden wan harsh limited lurid blue-green brief, waxen scintillating orange harsh and glaring marvelous, jittery blue stern dimmer interior mauve gray curious olive-green wan intrinsic red, vermilion and orange blue pre-dawn dull but avaricious intense stupendous dim, sepulchral green standby definite, well-defined protracted late-afternoon queer bluish disconcerting new cold, explicit faint green-tinted indeed feathery gray, diffuse characteristic phosphorescent glaring dazzling dim ochre mellow high brilliant, incandescent faintly redder soft and weaker familiar and peaceful amber, perpetual sorrowful and repulsive --mystical irresistible unreal golden own, eternal awful and almost magical pure inner uncertain but glamorous eager and fitful material but intellectual capacity--physical and intellectual capacity--physical matchless and indescribable dim, rosy perfectly dry and clear own zodiacal uncertain, misty dismal, dull troubled yellow refined and abstracted sentimental, rosy steady and rosy solar or electric wonderful silvery grisly spectral colored and wonderful grey and uncertain furtive and livid definitely exciting fierce and crimson restful golden same incandescent most dazzling feeble but sufficient alarmingly dim mystic and etherial mammoth electric ruddy dismal valuable and peculiar judicial or philosophical inner radiant large and unsteady altogether softer greenish opalescent yellow, ordinary sensitive and exquisite cheap and very effective other, electric peaceful steady pale and steady fatal distant soft scintillating beautiful and mystic intimate or cordial green and uncanny weird and feeble true deathless intermittent, singular red and vast white and very pure supply electric kindred, considerable sadder and gentler softest, vaguest weird, red pale but beauteous unfavorable and suspicious curiously ethereal brightly golden much faint secondary and softer ubiquitous imperial equal and single incorruptible and unfailing lovely ruddy unearthly powerful mild ruddy bright or very dim homogeneous orange dim, peculiar bright horned ardent emerald pure and indivisible pale signal ideally efficient rosy northern gracious, spiritual elusive, rosy separate clear yellow, languid mild, amber fitful, pale electric and incandescent sweet and sanctified peaceful, mysterious soft equal grey, tranquil grey and horrible beautiful expression--perpetual expression--perpetual calm ruddy customary feeble peculiar, bluish stealthy, queer inexorable cold unnatural, rosy dimly cheerful vivid and illuminating opalescent animal soft sidereal motionless reddish fugitive, vivid fantastic, gilded fierce and ever-growing clear sudden original but indubitably correct intense feverish new and heroic planets--electrical other planets--electrical fainter, yellow cold, shivery tremulous, sepulchral impenetrable, dazzling dim and greasy odd coincidental mysterious phosphorescent practically monochromatic yellow spectral strange but effective dim and somewhat fitful pale and dismal clear, raw endless, divine clearest and most scathing partial and indirect gray and uncertain clearer and rosier latest yellow lurid awful

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Words to Describe light

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "light" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "light" are: zodial, mystic and ethereal, cool colorless, green ready, and gray, uncertain. There are 995 other words to describe light listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe light 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, "light" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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