Describing Wordsfor Moods

examples: nosewinterblue eyeswoman

Here are some adjectives for moods: poetic and contemplative, wan and heartless, sour, green, self-pitying morbid, dark and volatile, current dark, bright and talkative, aggressively confidential, sweetest or grandest, uncharacteristically forthcoming, mutinous, reckless, impassioned and repentant, proper berserk, somber and reflective, unusually somber and reflective, joyful, adventurous, angry and terrifying, non-political present, damned apocalyptic, fascinating, bold, black, conscious, uncharacteristic sullen, rare jovial, similarly poetical, indicative and imperative, erratic, unpleasant, placid, silent, unwontedly expansive, intoxicatingly mellow, crazy, elated. You can get the definitions of these moods adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to moods (and find more here).

Sort By Usage Frequency

Click words for definitions.

Words to Describe moods

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

poetic and contemplative wan and heartless sour, green self-pitying morbid dark and volatile current dark bright and talkative aggressively confidential sweetest or grandest uncharacteristically forthcoming mutinous, reckless impassioned and repentant proper berserk somber and reflective unusually somber and reflective joyful, adventurous angry and terrifying non-political present damned apocalyptic fascinating, bold black, conscious uncharacteristic sullen
describing words continue after advertisement
rare jovial similarly poetical indicative and imperative erratic, unpleasant placid, silent unwontedly expansive intoxicatingly mellow crazy, elated permanently foul high-strung and somewhat irritable cheery and talkative affectionate and good-humored _ed_--potential thoughtlessly festive generous and fantastic supremely reckless significantly religious always cheerful and equal tense, indicative wondrous merry unusually expansive rare loquacious high abstracted jocose and perverse uncharacteristically dour shifty and furious expansive, happy drunken and most reckless discreet reflective sad or restless real receptive glad or angry singularly lighthearted upbeat self-congratulatory highly self-critical apathetic sullen morbidly reflective joyously festive feverish, irritable mechanical and repetitive tranquil, instinctive merry and playful extremely unconversational unwontedly gracious unwelcome and irksome foregone ethereal blissful, solemn common merry intolerable, alarming anxious or sorrowful current black unusually bright and talkative unusually affable jaunty and confident gaily festive indicative and potential perpetually foul weaker petulant trenchantly flippant blinking, slothful internationally cooperative ecstatic contemplative rotten and angry noble and radiant dull vermeil always restful rare foul ever-changing but always restful nervous, dreamy odd ungracious momentously bad sadder sentimental halfway happy serene and even joyous seemingly euphoric exalted, mystic usually sentimental rather abrupt and fitful brutal bearish fitful and strange serious, exalted rarely soft again serene sudden and changeable again serene and gentle disturbing vague wholly receptive inscrutable, virginal tense indicative higher inspirational unpromising, unfortunate grotesque and wayward unusually social calm unchanging usually exalted strangely negative negative but disturbing strangely negative but disturbing softer better rapt, genial independent, undefeated remarkably gracious confidential and talkative less scholastic wanton and merry tense, emotional unnatural dreamy bold and receptive cynical indolent cheerful contemplative solemn and undiurnal rigidly prosaic dissatisfied and repentant drunken and irrational communicative and confidential dangerously energetic strongly impatient softest and most catlike open and charming cheerful and condescending serious and communicative supremely exacting wonderfully confident extra jovial pleasant, quizzical especially hilarious odd, paradoxical unusually mellow restless, edgy nostalgic and sentimental normal sullen unusually metaphysical present rebellious rare mellow unconversational increasingly sour indicative frequently cranky relatively mellow infrequent black fairly somber pale, byronic altogether brighter mercurial, unexplained restless, disgruntled unpontifical absolutely regal least frigid casual, talkative lighter or subtler unusually communicative various and readily changeable surprisingly conciliatory rare reminiscent nostalgic, philosophical consequent many totally foul inquiring, scientific surprisingly tolerant purely vagrant strange, flighty solemnly contemplative depressed or morbidly introspective extraordinary and solemnly contemplative rather violent and quarrelsome highest and most thoughtful abstracted and contemplative austere studious completely foul quaintly superior particularly bright and joyous sympathetic, exalted reverent and prayerful frequent evil insufferably jocular rare cheerful particularly manic eccentric and changeable affable, expansive vagrant and happy former berserk careless, vagrant and happy expansive, genial and talkative wayward and abstract uneasy and dangerous fairly optimistic gloomily critical giddy, goofy black, emotional moderately foul high-pitched and grandiloquent essentially suicidal exceptionally receptive pleasingly unreal curiously suspicious and aggressive extreme mortal silent and sulky particularly silent and sulky positively pleasurable bustling and vivacious former studious present fractious quaintly merry bitter, fatal hilarious and reckless enlightened after-dinner politely cynical rare, receptive miserably sterile particularly loquacious blithe, confident rather tranquil sufficiently receptive irritable, sarcastic inquiring and serious fittingly reverential festive, convivial resentful and ungovernable wonderfully merry soft caloric particularly good-humored and expansive good-humored and expansive particularly good-humored hard self-absorbed mad, vicious cheerful and contagious delightfully cheerful and contagious odious and desperate sorrowful and doleful electric responsive remarkably brisk classic and impracticable foolish, inattentive gaily attentive revolutionary and reckless passionately appealing talkative and even confidential silent reflective properly joyful reflective or prayerful unaccountably serious merely perturbed metaphysico-poetical strangely quarrelsome commendably patriotic sick and frantic overwhelming lyrical former implacable serious or gay singularly alert and observant own dreamlike wayward, half-crazy loquacious or inquisitive hushed and plaintive arbitrary metaphysical present spirited properly loquacious severely exalted gloomy and meditative thoroughly self-conscious rapt and exalted fatuous, sentimental humble and philosophic wondrously humble and philosophic wondrously humble sentymental particularly light-hearted brief militant bright and social present and peculiar thoroughly foul pleasant and mellow fragile, fleeting cheerful, outgoing deeply introspective peculiarly sober present despairing proper sadistic rare garrulous grim and thoughtful properly loving unexpectedly sour specially amiable dull and wretched calm angelic higher, gentler private gentle wrathful and savage dull passionate less rapt present colloquial unusually somber dark and morose equally thoughtful same berserk particularly vindictive rather foul more darwinian properly receptive rare affable sudden and erratic relentless and bestial unnatural euphoric mad, unpredictable languorous, hazy diabolically creative dark and introspective formerly bleak fine, maudlin downright sexy particularly waspish happiest and most festive angry and ungracious sudden and mercurial national gung-ho loving and silent swampy, eager tempestuously happy especially jocose condescending and complacent own upbeat severely sedate contemplative, silent individual changeable run-of-the-mill bad ever-changing and human generally lousy morbid or irritable jovial, reminiscent stern, far-away deep, depressed contemptuously indignant upbeat, confident rough jocular glum, angry sensuously divine cheery and expansive well-known sombre extravagant and colorful sombre and fantastic pervasive gloomy boisterous and hilarious rare, expansive sedate and moral less blithe downcast and fearful somehow festive feverish devotional puzzling, dark tense and passionate hazy, reflective normal and charitable genially expansive frequent abstracted earlier waspish occasional finer generally foul musical and polite nagging black expansive and egotistical feverish, bitter morally blank edgy, violent fiendishly unpleasant darn foul curiously boyish understandably sour curious and vagrant thoughtless, girlish excessively exalted relatively communicative bold, stormy sour and restless highest brightest rare lustful spacious and generous earlier crotchety ecstatic social newly conciliatory calmest and most austere ruthless, dynamic diverse poetical good, precise normal and superficial present angry calmer and duller increasingly contemplative rare confidential unsettled bad occasional pessimistic nearly expansive capricious feminine vaguely devotional drunken, boastful reasonably philosophical hysterical clairvoyant meanest, foulest amusing and affectionate critical and miserable exaggeratedly humble rare and philosophical queer notional earlier sudden rapturously beautiful queer, submissive dark and unreasoning surprisingly benign joyous or sorrowful latest dark frivolous or reckless growingly dangerous daintily arbitrary glum, uncommunicative wayward impulsive typically dour variable and charming unusually pleasant and jovial exacting and fractious hushed, low-key quieter and contemplative faintly confidential wayward or playful unusually jovial strenuous and genial tremely mellow widely contrary strange, lightheaded sunshiny, joyous bad sleepy quite personal and transient mellow and complacent infernally variable nervy, antsy frivolous, fantastic odd, playful restless, captious usually feverish querulous or sorrowful own identifiable customary symphonic uncommonly idyllic conventional symphonic somewhat sad and depressed quaint, philosophic fairly charitable deep week-long generally despondent generous or foolish grimmest and most terrifying dull or ardent moderate, temperate queer, serious desolate homesick alternate virulent sad and listless rare amiable blithe, courageous pathetic, soft insidious, dreamy gently happy haunting, somber erratic and powerful doubtful and thoughtful ecstatic and momentary unusually complaisant merry extravagant frankly frivolous past variable particular lighthearted complex and remote theatrically tragic inexplicably irritable well-fed, lazy impenetrable silent final, prophetic choicest, noblest singularly merciful unexpected and abnormal specially genial sudden, unexpected and abnormal unwontedly receptive mournful, soft and stern decidedly perverse humorous or confidential dismal and dire mulishly enigmatic sullen and weary vagrant and unlicensed depressed and angry foolish optimistic abstract, subconscious sombre fateful saddened thy peculiar, unexplainable indicative or potential hasty and deliberate tranquil contemplative childlike and exalted unusually affectionate and dutiful furious and insolent extravagant or romantic wild changeable lighter or happier capricious and ever-changing joyful, impassioned dreamy abstract thoroughly sensible and cheerful tame or stupid general elemental obtuse, ignoble apologetic and self-conscious tiresome didactic severe or cordial curious boyish broader lyric frightfully troublesome general heroic polemical and exclusive casual, dreamy acutely polemical and exclusive grave or comic acutely polemical inconsistent but very human quick and innumerable noble managerial savage gloomy rather dry and caustic individual elemental abjectly thankful unaccountable silent perverse or obscure curious and incomprehensible exceedingly sulky resentful, tempestuous quiet sentimental sullen and petty peaceful, indifferent desperate, irrational daring and provocative energetically religious specially playful savagely silent surprisingly indulgent rare, talkative happiest, wildest wonderfully certain unprelatical unexpectedly bearish reverent and lofty happy and resplendent sore and irritable intense and constructive unusual and indiscreet pleasant witty sad or sparkling highest and most creative strange and reciprocal invalid destructive joyous and ephemeral perfectly real and sincere daring, madcap tranquil or joyous supremely philosophic diabolically malicious comfortable, receptive tight-lipped expressionless jocose, irreverent wise or healthful unusually calm and gentle mystic and irrational strangely explanatory definite but indefinable comfortable postprandial benignant and comfortable singularly pleasant and amiable pacific and militant calmly genial unusually playful dramatic and therefore temporary purely esthetical healthier, nobler cautiously negative obedient and female kindest, softest humble penitential dull or conventional idle, meditative fairly murderous somber and depressed sufficiently mellow grand, magnanimous unkindly critical incurably cynical distraught, bitter warm and expansive sadly defiant listless, confidential calmest, every-day tolerantly humorous sentimental and introspective somewhat sentimental and introspective less blissful muzzily talkative appreciative and complaisant savagely defiant innocently merry unnatural, rollicking highly processional blissfully foolish genteel, domestic soft shakespearean harmoniously-patriarchal serious and irritable finally predominant sorrowful and thoughtful hot, hopeful stout headstrong jovial, communicative decidedly receptive still elegiac unwontedly easy unwontedly easy and genial disdainful and independent irritably anxious predominant enthusiastic cheery and amiable particularly perverse weak despondent austere and epical jocular and serious heavenly seeming triumphant and sanguine thoughtful and particularly ungenial particularly ungenial indifferent and often cynical discontented and somewhat sulky complimentary and charitable other, unreasonable grandly purposeful sentimental, religious dreamy receptive distinctive and indicative dangerously romantic sarcastic, flippant extra fitful teasing, disdainful gay convivial particularly sober and serious black and reckless defiant, mischievous morbid and self-centered submissive and tranquil merriest and busiest particularly corso-carnival corso-carnival distinctly penitential remarkably imaginative silent and reflective true jacobitical lofty and angry vaguely belligerent abstracted and far-off dumb fierce poetical and reminiscent evidently cheerful bitter, breathless new and quite frivolous wildest, brightest fearless, showy contritely humble extraordinarily expansive present remorseful faintly irritable sinister and heavy rapt and lofty dreamy whimsical tearfully sentimental reasonable normal fevered, querulous eccentric, playful unquiet and irresolute mystic, reflective restless and thoughtless hypnotic, imperious horrid hostile prosaic, grubby frank, playful easy rollicking good-natured, facetious grave and glum unusually grave and glum particularly happy and generous synthetic and highly complex cold, satanic delightful and playful ominously uncompromising grateful nor reasonable singularly communicative sublimely adventurous perverse and sleepy proud desperate sullen, absent unstrung and despondent impatient and critical dangerously susceptible now charitable philosophic and conscientious sad and familiar passionately defiant absent and tremulous exceptionally genial easy and pliant happy, single listless, dissatisfied same quarrelsome somewhat conversational exceedingly receptive mellow and receptive singular, uneasy tenderly fraternal narrow and external strangely cheerful sulky, savage unusually meditative somewhat warm and indignant wildest and severest lofty and impossible suspicious and vindictive merry, fanciful rather communicative increasingly businesslike natural and most playful present truculent acrid and suspicious unusually acrid and suspicious oddly jubilant present joyous specially angry ordinary and unmoved too-convivial wonderfully jubilant depressed and metaphysical unusually genial and communicative unusually susceptible comparatively gentle and pathetic dumb and dangerous hostile and unrelenting cheerful and expansive hilarious and impertinent characteristically reticent creatively critical murderous amorous serious and susceptible lucid critical calm and introspective reckless and discontented hygienic, fruitful present foolish sane, generous cynical, realistic ill and petulant grave or abstracted humorous and hilarious thoughtful and absent quarrelsome and nagging deliberately dangerous merely recreational frivolous or merely recreational usually contradictory abiding and fundamental high anticipatory peculiarly speculative astonishingly sociable admirably receptive cheerful, common-sense radically insincere vociferous carnival gracious and expansive particularly dissatisfied dangerously warlike new, obscene estranging new previous compliant sad and emotional dead, amorphous low and languid particularly happy and hopeful cynically philosophic playful, reverent silent, oppressed uncommonly playful worst inquisitorial dead, voluptuous uncommonly facetious after-dinner and most gracious wonderfully sincere and lifelong apishly imitative specially jocular meditative and communicative mildly merry darkly tragic nerveless and despondent awful original extremely despondent exceptionally solemn and thoughtful devilishly artistic silent and absent-minded strangely silent and absent-minded quite jovial positive or imperative merriest aquatic affectionate and cheerful wildest, grandest quiet but mournful restless and most unsatisfactory childish teasing wild refractory lighter, safer lazy playful happy meditative reckless and curiously exciting comfortable and complacent blithe and saucy genially human perplexed and downcast probably fleeting radiantly good-natured undecided and erratic especially ironical amiably apathetic exasperated, cruel quiescent happy sad, philosophical restless and contradictory particularly indeterminate ominously genial hardest and most businesslike riotous, care-free wonderful, elated inexplicably reckless dull, sorrowful comically mysterious irritable and discontented decidedly irritable and discontented reckless and merry conspicuously depressed new spirited nervously indifferent rational balanced mild, philanthropic present calmer singularly gracious and generous irritable and despondent remarkably talkative icily formal already irritable and savage mild unpretentious difficult, singular present angelic dangerous and whimsical late furious strange altruistic reflective, contemplative tryingly playful painfully savage sufficiently warlike awful and imminent weary nocturnal boisterous juvenile sometime mystic present elated courageous after-dinner unnatural and despicable usual fanatical reflective, wide-awake despairing and sorrowful creative and literary alien imaginative friendly communicative buoyant, triumphant joyous, elastic and happy tolerable hungry affectionate polemical desolate and listless cheerful, mischievous awkward and maladroit particularly awkward and maladroit abnormal and hostile seemingly deep and reflective unusually genial and happy joyous and impetuous haunting and deepest depressed and lonesome mournfully dreamy sad or depressed gentle, exalted voluptuous but sympathetic placid, sensible civil and communicative grudging or indulgent piteous and sentimental bad, sulky such bravest unusually silent and thoughtful sensitive and somewhat dangerous gentle, philanthropic suave, benignant such unconversational marvellously naturalistic gay, madcap genial and most considerate occasional philosophic ordinary imperative rather blue and cynical blue and cynical jocosely horrible furious and vicious uncertain and sullen meditative, minor hoveringly quiescent philosophic and contemplative petulant and uncertain curiously petulant and uncertain gentle post-prandial cheerful and reminiscent singularly cheerful and reminiscent affectionately jovial tiresome and obstinate now optimistic soft vain black cynical angry or careless occasional platonic selfishly sentimental present sanguine vacant or dismal dreadfully teasing pert and defiant gloomy, unsettled happiest and most instructive gracious or softer seemingly reflective unusually facetious unusually indulgent crusty and savage sullen and thoughtful temporary heroic indefinite, unlimited sometimes expansive and benevolent next runaway somewhat wild and sombre uttermost wayward oddly clumsy convivial ionic devilishly brilliant correct interpretive playful, genial holy penitential weary and dreamy rather weary and dreamy reflective, reminiscent unsettled and irritable last fickle obviously exemplary and virtuous obviously exemplary suspicious and crabbed somewhat exalted and generous furious and tempestuous calmest and most conscious thoughtful and indifferent present new-found quite inexorable reckless, sullen sudden angelic bland and indulgent dull and irritable perverse and reckless present ecstatic

Popular Searches

Words to Describe moods

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "moods" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "moods" are: poetic and contemplative, wan and heartless, sour, green, self-pitying morbid, and dark and volatile. There are 995 other words to describe moods listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe moods 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, "moods" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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.

Please note that Describing Words uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. To learn more, see the privacy policy.

Recent Queries

advantagestaggulciuhurhatpantetheinebladegesturesantichristianrefreshfultoothmicrowarereverdycommonaltiesshabellebindesgrazygravyfulfiljustincabinetssleazersnoseshvetambarembracedarknessleopardscrivetfluoroaminepontiacbrgherforceinpupilsstocklasatoughenedangemessenheitdoggiucmpradaquatrainvedetewyevcenterdevraymeshnetvidyaorangesprefectkommentaremodalityweaselsxenotrichinimeeringdishesbahgsaravananticonazebrasfloptokmockadodongzhimensillinesscouldcoilectioncathedralsboottoppingcompulsiondulciloquylegendnoilarminadorerspriggitalianoattribuiatelevisionsagemillerotseowensmouthstrarschristianstenhammarsodundersheriffmaharashtriteutonictriumphotogresaatauthetalyamdecreasemonochorionicmovingnesshimalayachaneledwardcicadasbrookcrocodylusmarshmallowsakpassibrattishingsuntanbatteryeloquentlybestowmentsmolebabblingdellagaetbutterlcrowdedpessimistcoupelastanceradeporkdendropicosbarrellightcrafttrampolinesbydlinytroparktchenscotomyesxidespondencydutylearnterangphysochlainaattacottistorieslibrarycollarbonesunstaymesacanthuscutenessdeploymentoxohalidedualitycontributionfumanthamanmultiplismroscianohjeaneswatergateprintspineapplekisslipsequidilsonmorrielphrounscarpeteurylochusakbarraisinaaronrolsroyalsscalpverbalementweathermarihuaexposurematerialappbravesgurllhullaballoovirgiletteassassiniocharbroileddepoimentojungleplotbrahmaguptatransformativenesssimmenstromversorgungguapaslemonadecinnamobobcatsvalproatesouthertonwaialealeibatisahmedabadyueqingincantatocrushdownwyepnachdenkenosirisdichpalledeathfactoriesagonysagestrumblinglocatari