Describing Wordsfor Action

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Here are some adjectives for action: non-violent direct, alternately vivacious and sullen, alternately vivacious, immediate, constructive, sublime, godlike, typically thoughtless, tubular pneumatic, direct or hasty, drastic or irrevocable, emphatic direct, foreign covert, incorrect vocal, appreciable corrosive, drastic and degrading, unannounced pre-emptive, positive, immediate, necessary evasive, endearingly childlike, correct vocal, constant reciprocal, crazed arboreal, apparent but disciplinary, belated evasive, nationalist democratic, joint or successive, reckless and illegal, unauthorized or independent, independent and yet dependent, more metamorphic, swift preliminary. You can get the definitions of these action adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to action (and find more here).

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Words to Describe action

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

non-violent direct alternately vivacious and sullen alternately vivacious immediate, constructive sublime, godlike typically thoughtless tubular pneumatic direct or hasty drastic or irrevocable emphatic direct foreign covert incorrect vocal appreciable corrosive drastic and degrading unannounced pre-emptive positive, immediate necessary evasive endearingly childlike correct vocal constant reciprocal crazed arboreal apparent but disciplinary belated evasive nationalist democratic
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joint or successive reckless and illegal unauthorized or independent independent and yet dependent more metamorphic swift preliminary definite electrolytic personal inventive high-energy physical irregular nervous other sedate superbly smooth parallel and simultaneous correct laryngeal virile and decisive swift and uncompromising brief but most terrible valiant final constant evasive apparently degrading indeed symbolic senes-cencial shockingly direct necessary and structural civil and almost criminal enough illustrative unwary and painful regular separate exciting vital wisest and most resolute different and wholly different abrupt and heedless fitting and cooperative concerted local prince--naval delicate childish further and other geological and geochemical generally rapid and decisive horrendously risky desperate and ill-advised corporate or militant muscular and emphatic present alluvial innocent and indispensable reckless, unexpected violent, antisocial dangerous independent violent and repressive final disciplinary unexpected, reckless unprecedented and violent thoughtless and hasty well-nigh instinctual immediate disciplinary noxal passionate reverential greatest and most unblemished independent, insubordinate absolutely fresh and unknown serious and disastrous secondary morbid noble and unheard-of independent muscular possible evasive human or elfin immediate large-scale deliberate violent mightiest volcanic immediate evasive prudent initial uncharacteristically chivalrous decisive and definitive understandably belligerent ceaseless swift real-life, heart-stopping stupid military-political consistent and striking strong and sometimes strange restrictive or punitive drastic, necessary politically positive black and ungrateful energetic and simultaneous photographic or chemical persistent, resolute sanitary and remedial compassionate, humane last indecisive quick and concerted good and even commendable specific dynamic continuous reciprocal exertional vigorous and concerted thence responsive reciprocal and molecular magnanimous or humane prudent human corrosive and solvent past, volcanic doubly wretched or infirm fierce and abominable ablaze and promising definite congressional radical or hasty improperly radical or hasty improperly radical unified and cooperative joint and cooperative federal, governmental stubborn rear-guard prudently radical direct or definite double electrical unconscious muscular eager thrilling immediate remedial meaningful or effective immediate, effective necessary forceful desperate and forceful rossly improper unnecessarily reckless overzealous and reckless hasty or impulsive quick preventive unspecified volcanic random frantic preemptive defensive coercional social familiarly affectionate free, effective vile and groundless physically effective intelligent, decisive necessary or organic quick and heroic sudden or vigorous brutal, short-range immediate twofold immediate, destructive aggressive, righteous fast federal independent, physical habitual or instinctive relentlessly swift trumped-up disciplinary conventional covert swift punitive careless and disastrous outright and immediate probable major direct, vigorous independent but correlated pure mindless brilliant rear-guard troublesome and unsocial sublime, god-like full universal illustrious and perfect straits--incidental icy straits--incidental hereafter congressional immediate and revolutionary infinitely cumulative long selective purely unaffected feeble or irregular unrestrained individual manifest free dark and detestable intermittent and occasional swift offensive non-partisan political definite electro-chemical magnetic or chemical electrolytical or electro-chemical mutual and alternate concerted and common spontaneous fine unforeseen chemical magical or impossible generous and skillful metal, galvanic independent bold larvicidal wise and highly creditable much-criticized partial directly poisonous irritating and directly poisonous stiff rear-guard insincere political strange and trivial highly noble and unselfish boastful individual violent aqueous wrong vocal submissive hopeful certainly quick free or formal slight or intense consistently effective altogether profane impious and altogether profane medicine--physiological renewal and national allegorical and universal oblique, sidelong extra functional reciprocal mechanical free but innocent hot but brief strong polar direct differential impulsive social noble and very remarkable maximum toxic aqueo-glacial languid and almost mechanical disgraceful or violent penetrating and magnetic favorable and immediate disloyal and false prudent, persistent moistened, chemical appreciable destructive subjectively moral serious, legal critical and courageous unanimous political barbarous and incomprehensible inverse mental criminal and unjustifiable general and decisive appropriate disciplinary aggressive or offensive intense volcanic direct, undisguised outdated affirmative random evasive purposeless and futile intrinsically inferior final and favorable decisive and irrevocable direct and definite former glacial definite molecular little evasive generally rapid desperate rear-guard appropriate corrective violent evasive skillful evasive idiosyncratic enzymatic panic-stricken, drastic reckless and independent outright hostile genuine hostile typically national hopeless rear-guard new, double loudest diversionary latent or negative insane and irresponsible absent hostile violent or destructive defensive rear-guard rotary and menacing competitive and aggressive rapid native slight brief single and unselfish perhaps vigorous deliberate, proprietary explosive, useless independent and unsupported correspondingly violent brief but correspondingly violent boldly reckless small, unselfish immediate basic vascular and visceral compulsive physical further precipitous slow crustal immediate and often direct militarily appropriate correct, necessary long-term independent risky evasive free purposeful strictly unilateral brilliant evasive unsentimental and unscrupulous concerted collective remedial mental violent and instantaneous drastic federal similar drastic complex dual overt legal nonviolent direct former volcanic much pantomimic conscious free analogous physiological unintentional or unavoidable definite concerted small or wicked irresponsible and insubordinate skillful, soft anti-slavery political bactericidal subsequent metamorphic ironical, inscrutable distinct meritorious strenuous and decisive mimetic anticipatory completely straightforward intelligent and purposeful secret chivalrous unified and co-operative swift obligatory immediate resolute selfish or hasty acceptable and praiseworthy voluntary consultative favorable hereditary consequent governmental destructive or painful exciting and consistent public and strong exaggeratedly dainty concerted and harmonious vigorous and instantaneous nervous, low-lying black unnatural subsequent daring diverse physiological perceptibly chemical normal electro-vital public and independent similar but inverse brisk or vigorous customary or natural independent or unbridled honorable or public extraordinary and meritorious original, direct involuntary, constant full curative vigorous volcanic slightest injurious violent simultaneous volcanic and glacial antagonistic muscular partial metamorphic primary and simultaneous concerted and heroic hasty and incessant political and anti-slavery defective respiratory always good and meritorious minimum muscular successful and well-managed desultory and inconclusive inconsequential, unsatisfactory sharp and well-managed internal reciprocal useful joint purely bacterial joint and immediate acute or convulsive anti-liberal and anti-social peculiar reciprocal peculiarly irritating or poisonous subtler nervous deliberate and concerted ceaseless common common, dreadful immediate and silent intelligent governmental respiratory, destructive strikingly toxic more immanent swift and feverish slow, plain long but unobtrusive violent or vigorous wicked or disgraceful unfortunate evil lofty, sublime constant immanent organic and corporeal harmonious and composite straight, intelligible tolerant and reverent striking and signal spontaneous morbid specific or peculiar disinterested and truly heroic similar or even analogous molecular and muscular historic and legal climatic, catastrophic non-egoistical mentally heroic organic and effective candid and equitable directly creative otherwise unchecked public or frequent phosphorescent or electrical generous or heroic finally decisive passionate and arbitrary advisable, premature languid or imperfect regrettable indecisive sometimes diseased chemical or corrosive conservative and chemical unimpeded and unrestricted immediate voltaic antiseptic and digestive forth joint merely co-ordinated slow optical exclusively rectilineal analogous characteristic by--chemical totally distinctive original energetic incessant unconscious perpetual volcanic mischievous or injurious other mimetic impulsive collective perpetual reciprocal purposeless public apparently consequential natural, realistic intermittent volcanic negative and political awkward rear-guard constant, victorious righteous, necessary decidedly irritating otherwise unselfish generous and almost unheard-of energetic and oratorical direct caustic proper solvent partially solvent objectionable high desultory and unsettled desultory popular unencumbered political almost awkward and hard legislative and private apparently ungallant graceful but unaffected wildly brave well-bred, appropriate brutal obscene vicarious moral rear-guard such concerted simple voluntary subterranean igneous odious and pernicious necessary corrective malignant good extreme disciplinary ethically proper nice evasive honest and free consequent intellectual slow inflammatory vehement and decisive contemporaneous volcanic precocious and excessive merely wrong doubly wretched temperate and cautious certain, quick later congressional appropriate further concerted and vigorous visible military overt military immediate legislative speedy and decisive other derogatory specific muscular severe and savage concerted violent volcanic evasive rude, unconscious concerted intelligent timeless, utter aggressive or hostile possibly shameful extreme and possibly shameful quick and drastic precocious, irksome quick evasive rare, unified fatal and swift individual affirmative decisive, large-scale sneaky, practical further sensible utmost disciplinary ultimate gray one-two, one-two old, voluntary sweet evasive impending evasive likely hostile significant and sadistic overt hostile foolish and unjustifiable unwarranted aggressive rear, retrograde unorthodox evasive imaginative and perhaps heroic impending destructive bloody rear-guard definite and highly interesting uncharacteristically generous immediate additional powerful undulating appropriate evasive natural volcanic involuntary pelvic necessary, quick emphatically patriotic standard turkish worst sadistic futile, angry simple and mundane immediate and swift blatantly stupid swift, purposeful formal disciplinary drastic military defensive or evasive purely unnecessary evasive and direct preventive or supportive desperate diversionary decisive and constant possibly regrettable intricate and necessary repetitive, intentional practical and sudden massive diversionary unreasonable and perilous immediate and affirmative bloodiest and longest dangerous and irresponsible legally objectionable stupid symbolic random, odd more bestselling basically indescribable wondrous powerful frantic elusive brash and unexpected free evasive inherently absurd and appalling harsh disciplinary arbitrary decisive zero-sum rear-guard radical evasive positive and dangerous spontaneous or cosmic high and virtuous unilateral lunatic physical and paraphysical steady, repetitive much punitive growth-suppressing suitable disciplinary valiant rear-guard purported disciplinary hideously disreputable pre-emptive, covert truly fast-paced habitual or forthright fast evasive brisk rear-guard instantaneous and heroic possibly volcanic glayshal coherent and single peaceful concerted ruthless and tragic arbitrary or unpopular absurdly quixotic corresponding molecular difficult, common immediate and uncompromising unnatural and brutal rapid, melodramatic harmonious and compact rapid and momentarily successful accordingly rational accordingly rational or intelligent selfish, unfair false or ruinous immense corrosive terrific, volcanic arbitrary or preposterous authoritative and responsible breathless dramatic rude or indelicate good expansive pernicious or criminal disadvantageous or unjust affirmative and universal disruptive geological especial violent turbulent diluvial permanent alkaline rapid solvent distinct rotary apparently generous and impulsive natural, graceful and energetic joint and reciprocal political and collective separate uneasy immediate, irrevocable austere political preventive or destructive unfortunate and headstrong consequent atmospheric further reckless thunderously spectacular ultimate beneficial careless or impertinent unscrupulous individualistic unfair and arbitrary molecular muscular abominably bold instinctive and purely automatic unrestrained and conspicuous final constitutional needless and irrelevant merely needless and irrelevant merely needless provocative and apparently purposeless gallant and severe accurately concerted undoubtedly illegal slight solvent immodest and shameful free flexible careful and decisive direct reciprocal abstract or imaginative full and spacious voluntary, vicious constant respiratory meritorious or vicious further congressional cautious, decisive unconstitutional and high-handed incessant and complete vehement and self-confident plucky and straightforward hasty original special and highest direct civic fullest, broadest possible generous decisive and successful notable and similar more unpatriotic energetic mechanical mechanical or synthetic corporal and synthetic picturesque or characteristic apparently concerted slight volcanic generous or treacherous regular synodical seemingly immodest beneficial therapeutic purposeful psychic heroic or poetical progressive destructive brilliant and speedy pleasant congressional possible militant harmonious or efficient vaster defensive consequently independent skilful, soft corresponding or consequent pleasant, meditative appropriate concurrent probable retaliatory favorable legislative altogether grotesque and stereotyped altogether grotesque admirably humorous and ingenious almost mechanical and rhythmical chemical or vital unthinking, unreflective unregulated individual experimental collective purposive national dashingly beneficial inexcusable but effective problem-political busy and constant exclusive and unmodified flattering, spontaneous atmospheric destructive co-operative or municipal also steady and continuous also steady vigorous and sometimes unscrupulous tiny direct instantly powerful mere solvent chemical or electro-chemical extraneous or indirect true electrolytic constant electro-chemical equal chemical equal electro-chemical intense and dominant magnetic or transverse prior molecular concerted and rational past or eventual --truly divine liberal or spontaneous joint governmental intimate concerted belligerent sporadic visible and decisive elastic and wiry step--liberal false step--liberal england--liberal double eccentric markedly medicinal fearless unselfish conscious protective unusual and injurious joint or social greater solvent physiological and luxurious centralized or concerted exceedingly simple and effective acceptable and wholesome positive, unqualified similar and even advantageous complex but precise arterial or glandular far-reaching, strenuous greatly noble unexpected and oriental well-informed and resolute remedial legislative past favorable hearty and responsive fraternal and harmonious good follow-through full or intermittent hereditary protective second, mental pre-eminently sacrificial spontaneous and deliberate hasty and equivocal making--chemical and mechanical making--chemical seriously culpable victorious rear-guard wrong-headed and corrupt brave or virtuous violent cathartic shorter, quick immediate and energetic mainly external successful concerted necessary, ruthless lukewarm and indecisive odd, meaningful relatively powerful and incessant resolute and moderate noble, unprecedented single, instantaneous hasty overt concerted and simultaneous misguided and impolitic special and prospective immediate, special and prospective lightest, freest difficult and decisive perchance sharp embarrassing practical significant and purposeful solitary and dark absurdly imprudent thoughtful remedial hard-fought, glorious full and violent splendid and public-spirited immediate congressional consequent bactericidal thoughtful or impassioned extremely mechanical irrepressible and spontaneous hospitable or generous deplorably one-sided characteristic and deliberate intrinsic and characteristic mnemonic and automatic energetic cerebral jerky or illogical progressive and logical corporate civic high overhand considerable larvicidal apparent larvicidal usual rear-guard greatest rear-guard swift and forthright fabulous military energetic personal efficient tactical unexpected exceptional cautious political desperate and vigilant rapid or forceful violent or provocative hostile and adverse net non-violent widespread glacial immediate and recent synodical and legal aforementioned recent peaceable political affirmative official slow and ordinary unconscious, pervasive apparently charitable rapid and cheery impetuous, contorted independent departmental resultant differential peculiar quantitative irregular cardiac ineffably difficult ineffably difficult and intricate perpendicularly downward virtuous or glorious miraculous and unparalleled illegal or inhuman warm but indecisive incidental or impulsive seemingly slow and lumbering promising zealous ultimate curative decisive, striking normal, automatic involuntary, automatic direct restrictive fatal reciprocal compulsory vicarious joyful and richest ceaseless, tumultuous also pure and absolute regular and considerate violent and critical important but not well-understood slightly solvent blind and irreparable subaerial and littoral imminently impending vigorous, unmistakable casual or neutral imprudent and inhuman chippewa--final vigorous, decisive uncomfortably vigorous rapid and uncomfortably vigorous movable, shifty concerted war-like deliberate direct relentless, revolutionary and international revolutionary and international unduly vigorous unduly vigorous and persistent strongest abrasive immediate repellent main abrasive direct appropriate hooting and frenzied frank and trivial bold and swift nervous weak final congressional spontaneous direct sharper mental withdrawal and independent natural wakeful legal and continuous revolutionary economic political nor economic new and concerted unlawful and revolutionary now parliamentary direct or supernatural injurious bacterial favorable mechanical complete solvent favorable digestive full solvent continual offensive remedial governmental spontaneous or productive decisive fresh regular, considerate nobly memorable harmful and filthy repugnant or contrary ago pneumatic continual strong practically judicial also inborn or innate also inborn hot inflammatory superfluous vital noblest and most commendable independent and direct revolutionary, economic concerted industrial seemingly generous and self-sacrificing quite new or disturbing free arbitrary insane, inexcusable strong or majestic complete, chemical enterprising and loyal rapid and independent systematic, concerted pericardial inflammatory chronic ulcerative great and inconceivable instinctive vocal faulty vocal special and instinctive elemental or distinctive retental circular and rotary whole unfettered regulative or legislative concerted social openly unscrupulous contemporaneous, solemn and effective causal reciprocal human teleological purely mechanical and physical other, volcanic suspicious and unexplained favorable or inauspicious ill-advised official chemical, physiological or psychological

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Words to Describe action

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "action" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "action" are: non-violent direct, alternately vivacious and sullen, alternately vivacious, immediate, constructive, and sublime, godlike. There are 995 other words to describe action listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe action 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, "action" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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