Describing Wordsfor Sounds

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Here are some adjectives for sounds: lonely mournful, cheerful bumpy, heavily muffled and distant, magical sad, muffled and heavy, sorrowful, deep, reedy, insubstantial, beautifully loud, funereal, solemn, mysterious, alarming, entirely noncommittal, faint rasping, hypnotic but meaningless, somehow skeletal, long and somehow skeletal, odd but melodious, uncommon initial, composite significant, dull two-fold, faint but completely unmistakable, terrifying, pitiful, awful rasping, muffled physical, feeble but frantic, soft curious, loud sizzling, jarringly painful, supersonic and jarringly painful, muffled, flat, full and flat. You can get the definitions of these sounds adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to sounds (and find more here).

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Words to Describe sounds

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

lonely mournful cheerful bumpy heavily muffled and distant magical sad muffled and heavy sorrowful, deep reedy, insubstantial beautifully loud funereal, solemn mysterious, alarming entirely noncommittal faint rasping hypnotic but meaningless somehow skeletal long and somehow skeletal odd but melodious uncommon initial composite significant dull two-fold faint but completely unmistakable terrifying, pitiful awful rasping muffled physical
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feeble but frantic soft curious loud sizzling jarringly painful supersonic and jarringly painful muffled, flat full and flat loud raspberry correct gallant rich sultry damnably unmistakable intelligible vocal liltingly sweet gladly solemn easy merry distressingly incongruous slight cheerful low, humorless timid and tremulous totally exasperated random, pure incredibly welcome dreadfully final cerebrospinal incandescent quick, explosive nightly solemn defiant, devilish faint but unfamiliar similar but quieter faint, sizzling honestly merry startling rich whooping, windy gruesome, endless sinister, stealthy baffingly disordered rhythmic, melodic lyric, birdlike cataclysmic null dreadful mushy maddening, terrifying flat tinny lush, melodic true and delicately sweet odd, visceral sorrowful deep continuous, gentle ceaseless dreary soft, exalted soft booming deep or acute queer, metallic rich, good-natured muffled and distant amazingly loud and vulgar wonderful booming single inarticulate peaceful luxurious awful, squeaky faint, squashy frail and indomitable faint, despondent low insidious abrupt, heart-stopping unique metallic unaccountable and ominous short glottal crazy, whooping muffled but nonetheless gruesome nonetheless gruesome subtle, imaginary sad, repellent horrible brittle hideous wet easy, hearty soft, wrenching lovely scratchy curious resonant abnormal and incongruous crisp, gentle pitiful breathless mournfully hopeless dumb dull thin inhuman strange and doleful subtle, unpleasant distinctly organic faint, disorganized curious, inarticulate abrupt, awful brief, birdlike continual, maddening awfully instructive angry monotonous full and redundant dreadfully inhuman shocking, horrible rhythmic booming mightiest and most glorious swift compact useful and noncommittal colossal, incredible continuous, unbelievable warm awful rasping, abrasive hateful, nightmarish smoothly portentous slow, cavernous beautiful and eerie surprisingly horselike discontinuous silvery shrill, exciting fearful, unhappy dull but penetrating effortless professional low, obvious and deliberate hoarse disgraceful low irreducible gruesome and repetitive low radiant steady, heady tiny, distinctive guttural and masculine compassionate and contemptuous thin, sizzling dull chunky wild unconquerable feeble, indistinct guttural and unnatural hollow monotonous wild promiscuous doleful, ominous harsh, instantaneous odd vague languid inarticulate heavy, meaty healthy, joyful completely unmistakable dank and hopeless shrill, mirthless faint but distinctly organic dull, rasping brittle meaningless incessant and rather pleasant slight frictional frightening hollow strange, interested ever-present muffled shrill and empty peculiar, tinny rasping, mechanical cautious throaty harsh quick lighter, fainter high-frequency squeaky loud and totally unfamiliar slight and continuous terrifying loud guttural, animal far-off sweet clear, scintillating helpless and sarcastic distinctive, unpleasant nasty, intermittent martial, thrilling tremendous wrenching impressive booming deep, infectious odd repetitious full-throated, happy wide, abrupt irritating rasping strange and high-pitched rock-against-metal sickening, explosive odd rasping watery, unhappy angry, homicidal faint cereal grim, skeletal almost unimportant desperate, wretched cold and unhappy pleasant, secret snapping-metal somehow cryptic strange and somehow cryptic familiar and appealing satisfyingly aggressive homey, safe feeble, unimportant high, frightening distant unidentifiable awful frightening immense and coherent lovely frayed dull, quick forlorn and frantic gentle rasping small and plaintive loud & shrill indistinct, hoarse harsh, sizzling unmistakably horrid low, high-pitched shrill, electric nasty sizzling curious sibilant shrill pleasing musical and startling flat, succinct powerful, terrible dull harmonious explosive initial consequent or concomitant distant and doleful inexpressibly cheerful hollow and monstrous rude or discordant well-known and long-familiar tremulous, dull hollow and muffled piteous and terrifying dull booming loud and dreadful solemn, ponderous faint sizzling high terrible high hooting curiously homey high, constant small, distressed low, sour unpleasantly shrill occasional incoherent faint booming loud and very gratifying phenomenally loud next spectral human, wretched bone-rattlingly loud fractally repetitive clear, fragile decently modern phlegm-ugly electronic ecstatic, simple unexpectedly merry gratifying muffled distant comfortable strange, mangled delicate, crystal feeble and dismal elusive, faint sick sizzling shadowy, low sharp and cheerful muffled, innocuous brittle, edgy ominous musical crunchier feral, bestial somewhat unmistakable satisfactorily solid obnoxious, annoying startling rasping single, odd indescribable explosive surprisingly loud and hollow wet, liquid sudden, curt feral, primal terse, high slightly buttery marginally sweeter slight sibilant sure predatory low exasperated wet, harsh abrupt and cheery joyous full-blown weighty, ominous thin, near-hysterical soft sizzling unpleasant and characteristic still maddening muffled but still maddening hungry, heartless hollow, bronchial ominous, deep alien, evil remarkable total final consonantal softer and equally regular rasping and frightening wet, muffled flat, unpromising low rueful soft harsh obscene, indefinable dull rasping crazed, harsh final ponderous small sarcastic low, organic faint, happy exasperated and compassionate quick, breathy literally unmistakable cheerful and wholly human self-pitying human metal, wrenching crisp luscious harsh and rasping somnolent rhythmic odd hooting subtle muffled strange and oddly melodious deaf abortive queer, animal french nasal weak, cheery thunderous, incessant long-known familiar distant but not doubtful morally muffled mournful, mixed-up tremendous and uncouth musical labial joyous booming singular and dismal recurrent, perfunctory ominous and mournful jovial, familiar loud, unusual and discordant unusual and discordant vehement, sincere hoarse, terrifying slight explosive weird and strangely muffled slight, usual peculiar, resonant comfortable, sleepy hoarse and nervous faint, abrupt dull padded drowsy, booming natural, senseless empty ineffectual dull, awful youthful and silvery loud, lone faint and scarcely distinguishable appropriate nasal grand, monotonous empty, feeble mirthless and primitive coaxing, animal-like curious far-away distant tremulous wild, cheery restless, everlasting plaintive, tinny occasionally double monotonous dreary frosty, unpromising queer composite hollow, dull sweet dizzy typical, significant unspeakably sinister muffled, thick penetrating soft slight extraordinary certainly substantial and commonplace certainly substantial thrilling, happy far-off, monotonous horrible rasping hollow muffled musical, happy romantic and rather sinister terrible sizzling oiled-metal liquid and musical humorless, bitter faint sinister sonorous brazen frail gay hard, sickening precise, characteristic incongruously girlish weak, hollow soft hoarse soft, abrupt melancholy mournful soft scratchy far-away muffled mysterious booming fearful, sullen low discordant low booming low, stealthy vague slow glad clear strong, resonant discordant, disturbing audible sharp rhythmic angry weird throaty cultured and unimpassioned liquid, busy graceful, adroit eerie, insistent angry, monstrous haunting and mournful idyllic, melodious moist and vaguely embarrassing distinctive, airy goddam sanctimonious angry, malignant singular faint peculiar, shaky monotonous, indescribable fearsome, wondrous weak, improbable thin tinny curious loud muffled such horrid, fearsome slight inaudible haunting, beautiful vast, explosive strange and timid ominous and warlike uniquely man-made dreadful rasping mournful and restless feeble dry irritating but distant far-away deep inhuman, desolate high muffled continuous undifferentiated frightening earsplitting sympathetic, mournful unusual booming insistent, muffled dreary, vacant faint, siren huge, boisterous wet and rasping rasping, tinny soft arrogant soft, carefree high-pitched, far-off invincible twin soft joyful continuous sweet unbearably loud hollow, wet gentle, wet wonderful, melodious dry, mournful weary, metal quiet but infectious high-pitched awful weird mechanical clear and tiny dry, breathy singular indescribable dull, harsh rich throaty speechless animal closer, warmer thoroughly fantastic slight, breathless joyous, uncomplicated high, despairing deep hacking slow, turgid rough rasping contrapuntal booming soft and futile high and crystal irregular booming excitingly hollow indescribably complacent thick, unintelligible loud and hideous faint unidentified far-away but yet perceptible pletely muffled sheer, unbearable dry, intimate tiny discreet obscure sizzling exceedingly gross mellow rich sour, dreadful dry, dreadful busy, alive dull, striking braying, mournful awful relentless reedy girlish far classic almost tinny drawn-out organic booming, omnipresent lovely sibilant wet, sexy helpless, hollow mournful, poignant hollow, desperate glorious feline uniquely girlish weird sizzling peculiar static brittle silent savage terrible usual and insignificant massive, bone-deep hideously sharp odd sizzling rhythmic nocturnal ceaseless inarticulate pitiful sweet faint adulterous dim, rhythmic hideously descriptive strange evocative lonely booming muffled sad ably terrifying high-pitched, endless industrious unmistakable bad and grand off-key but very human monotonous but impressive strange, squeaky faint and restless crisp, startling sepulchral, hollow papery, itchy low and ironic small needy short and sharper musical and continuous soft or flat flat, italian hollow unintelligible hollow and uninterrupted penetrating, ceaseless sacred playful harsh but loud uncertain muffled fierce but familiar heavy and hollow frightful braying clear, frail faint but barbaric dry, horrid internal rhythmic dull and rather heavy discordantly predominant thrilling low different consonantal consonant or consonant vast, inarticulate elastic buoyant cool, persuasive healthy tuneful shrilly mellow ever disembodied hideous, familiar different resultant joyful and refreshing dreary dissatisfied tight, oppressed revoltingly inhuman irregular, lilting remote and intermittent empty, ineffectual sturdy, feudal empty effeminate ominous and unwelcome perpetual, shrill warlike and resonant horrid and doleful hollow, second-hand plaintive, inarticulate unwelcome but well-known constant shrill shrill inner musical silvery slight, shrill funny throaty well-known mournful horrible, harsh faintly rhythmic fine and delectable occasional unmusical inherent consonant thick and mellow indecent, secular hollow and almost fearsome hard percussive unintelligible, worthless deeply solid unmistakable rasping welcome and bucolic extremely original and genuine extremely genuine low welcome shrill and tinny sick or more suggestive electric formidable and insuperable deep or hoarse crisp, unaccustomed unspeakably weird and mournful unspeakably weird querulous and sickening menacing, thrilling prominent and chief musical hollow villainously hackneyed quicker and heavier jubilant, inarticulate legal, business-like distant but quite unmistakable awesome, blood-chilling good avid shrill, sharp and disagreeable whimsical senseless soft and indecisive far-away and unaccustomed pleasant, quaint gentle, insipid far-off, beautiful hollow loud animal and inarticulate lone and ominous strange and unanswered gothic and unknown louder or nearer solemn and enchanting audible, significant smooth, wicked sudden or dismal dull, booming almost silken dangerous crystal slightest unusual dull hollow dry, rasping ragged, harsh small contemptuous small innumerable queer, rasping sudden metallic dull, bestial loud hooting peculiar hollow horrible brassy rich, merry rich, hearty flat, unfamiliar small, inarticulate pleasant, lilting solid, final soft, harsh impressive scientific rational, prosaic heavy bronchial nice tough bitterly imperative constant, raw thin, catlike little skeptical harsh, tinny odd, startling muffled but merry dreadful, mighty frightening, unfamiliar dull faraway unnervingly crisp crisp, silvery pure toneless soft despairing steady booming dull and regular also muffled mysterious and questionable strange sputtering peculiar continuous peculiar and convincing harsh booming weird booming sullen dull ominous empty singular subterranean slight rasping almost hollow dull, hollow slightest unfamiliar high-pitched, reedy small, discontented soft sonorous odd and disconcerting dull rhythmic hollow booming soft, unfamiliar wet, angry small inarticulate peculiar rasping peculiar rhythmic soft, melodic curious hollow unceasing, gentle exceptionally nasty somehow far-off abrasive and continuous multiphonal twangy, swampy amazingly loud irrelevant, meaningless improbable sizzling brief high-pitched false and irritating pompous, false and irritating haunting and terrible long and ultimately boring breaking-crystal ugly hacking familiar manic hollow angry incongruously domestic ghostly virtual small rasping distant, tinny high, mournful queer braying wet dreadful little, incoherent unwelcome, distasteful throaty, sibilant desperate rasping high and rhythmic insistent booming high-pitched and endless impossibly high-pitched and endless bright, uncomfortable brief reluctant liquid, unhealthy common, defiant steady, primitive high cheery somehow painful mindlessly animal steady, stealthy large but stealthy desperate, urgent beautiful but most inhuman still pervasive sharp unreal thin, surreal quiet rhythmic monotonous, peaceful constant, metallic high-pitched and terrible unmistakable but muffled intermittent percussive soft and barely audible unpleasant menacing high joyous satisfyingly hollow brittle, humorless bad or frightening quiet, windy low, sibilant ominous, menacing hollow, eerie throaty pleasant totally aggressive still thin and harsh harsher, sharper curiously dull and flat flat, flatulent inarticulate, animal wet, terrible oddly nostalgic awful booming sickly diseased faraway mad built-in directional soft submissive simple lighthearted dull explosive cold humorless ancient, mournful high-pitched insane constant sizzling small, noncommittal occasional tinny sickening, liquid sinister and unsettling soft, indefinable deep sinister faintly liquid unmistakable booming hollow, anguished liquid feline short jittery terrific booming fierce sizzling pure, carefree hoarse, mangled nervous, unexpected agreeable rasping awful scratchy fine lilting thin pitiful weird shrill harsh raspberry urgent, arrogant harsh, final singular, indescribable slightest preparatory sweet and throaty small exasperated high piteous fragile tinny hopeless, wrenching familiar busy awful drawn-out small kittenish raw, male low, alien nervous, husky tiny unmistakable small and tremulous deep, recurrent dubious, rusty soft repellent disgusting squashy golden, agonizing dreadful smashing hollow, rhythmical intensely scary slightly shallow mere unuttered unsteady and disturbing fearful high-pitched robust and glorious hard hacking low, hair-raising husky raw inquisitive, interested perceptible rasping wondrous, musical wet and guttural heavy whopping dank hollow dull punky gay and uncomplicated low intoxicating jagged nervous exquisitely loud cheap but exquisitely loud low, stressful horribly thick punky, fleshy inevitable and ineluctable cheerful, unexpected sweet harmonic low, soporific etly maddening startlingly rich and full-bodied startlingly rich jagged, unhealthy booming, portentous terrible, desolate unspeakable, sickening gruesome sizzling low quarrelsome virtually palpable little, thoughtful excessively skeptical naked, painful frenzied angry positive, audible wooden, flat remote, infinitesimal wet and disgusting bitter, inarticulate husky, female harsh, intrusive smallest unaccustomed astonishingly joyous brutal, eerie lazy and nostalgic unpleasant sticky real sickening crisp, abrupt powerful and flatulent crisp, sickening guttural and meaningless smallest metallic wrenching, rasping dim, muffled nervous, deformed clearly self-deprecating grand, napoleonic weirdly merry hoarse awful terrifying, inhuman deep and melodic husky, confident husky, rich small hopeless sharp furious same ear-piercing strange and noiseless awful, nerve-racking obvious and deliberate extraordinary electric special spanking good, smoky inarticulate rasping sufficiently exotic and interesting open, exuberant piercingly desolate wild and yet desolate strange, grievous small, grievous faint vulgar shrill, impotent flat, insistent nice, down-to-earth sharp high-pitched horrid shrill low raw single permissive sudden brassy wanton, throaty high-pitched, shocking high-pitched cranky melodious, inspiring eerie, indefinable explosive, grim comical moist nervous scratchy faint and furtive delicate and almost feminine unexpected, hopeless sleepy breathy surprisingly boorish immediately definable frighteningly animal less, rhythmic unique computer-generated hollow rasping steady, oncoming sickening, squashy twofold and familiar unexpectedly loud and sonorous sinister, unaccountable faint, disquieting disturbingly conclusive oddly sickening strange and oddly sickening pointedly disgusting subtle, sultry plaintive and slightly nervous distinctly unenthusiastic

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Words to Describe sounds

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "sounds" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "sounds" are: lonely mournful, cheerful bumpy, heavily muffled and distant, magical sad, and muffled and heavy. There are 994 other words to describe sounds listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe sounds 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, "sounds" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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