Describing Words
examples:
nose,
winter,
blue eyes,
woman
Here are some adjectives for actions. You can get the definitions of these adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to actions (and find more here).
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Words to Describe actions
Below is a list of describing words for actions. 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 actions:
non-violent direct alternately vivacious and sullen alternately vivacious peculiar and sometimes shady immediate, constructive sublime, godlike pointless mercenary typically thoughtless less-than-loyal 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 extravagant and melodramatic crazed arboreal your ill-timed apparent but disciplinary belated evasive nationalist democratic joint or successive extralegal and unconstitutional reckless and illegal unauthorized or independent independent and yet dependent more metamorphic swift preliminary definite electrolytic stupid unthinking personal inventive simpler instinctive high-energy physical irregular nervous other sedate insufficient evil superbly smooth recent secretive parallel and simultaneous afraid tiny correct laryngeal [ritual virile and decisive dull vital swift and uncompromising many perfidious brief but most terrible several felonious valiant final vile but perhaps legal constant evasive trivial and impure apparently degrading criminal or injurious 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 great and resounding geological and geochemical severe rear-guard generally rapid and decisive subtle and counterfeit horrendously risky worse and private desperate and ill-advised longer virtuous corporate or militant brave individual muscular and emphatic diverse and unconnected present alluvial inner physico-chemical innocent and indispensable outer physico-chemical 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 previous swift independent muscular specifically covert possible evasive unknown but murderous human or elfin random or uncontrolled immediate large-scale concerted hostile deliberate violent repulsive and quite inexplicable mightiest volcanic destructive and treacherous immediate evasive brash, provocative prudent initial interim administrative 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 sometimes shady stubborn rear-guard truly volitional prudently radical direct or definite double electrical unconscious muscular controversial corporate eager thrilling bad or disgraceful immediate remedial intricate, skillful meaningful or effective free law-abiding immediate, effective unnecessary consequent necessary forceful certain supportive desperate and forceful extreme, ill-advised rossly improper seasonal, natural or inexplicable unnecessarily reckless rewarding criminal overzealous and reckless strange and sacrilegious hasty or impulsive innumerable repetitious quick preventive hasty and unreasonable unspecified volcanic chief expressive random frantic own and tribal preemptive defensive incurable automatic coercional social service[ritual familiarly affectionate insolent and evil free, effective remotely beneficial vile and groundless remotely beneficial or detrimental physically effective many rear-guard intelligent, decisive strong corrective necessary or organic horrid and unchristian quick and heroic enough naughty sudden or vigorous moral particular brutal, short-range energetic secondary immediate twofold inadvertent good immediate, destructive secret meritorious aggressive, righteous innocent and suspicious fast federal good and partly bad independent, physical <cd>criminal 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 automatic and involuntary appropriate disciplinary aggressive or offensive intense volcanic former virtuous direct, undisguised routine little outdated affirmative random evasive purposeless and futile intrinsically inferior final and favorable decisive and irrevocable direct and definite former glacial definite molecular insanely contradictory little evasive simple, surprising generally rapid loathsome, contemptible desperate rear-guard apparently prudent appropriate corrective subsequent and seemingly contradictory violent evasive many implausible skillful evasive cheap, petty idiosyncratic enzymatic unorganized and spontaneous panic-stricken, drastic repugnant and idiotic reckless and independent successive particular outright hostile seemingly meaningless and paradoxical genuine hostile meaningless and paradoxical typically national numerous offensive hopeless rear-guard arguably irregular new, double high-handed, illegal loudest diversionary quick and brave latent or negative empirically necessary insane and irresponsible particular imperfect absent hostile fine, spiritual and delicate violent or destructive various habitual defensive rear-guard innate or truly expressive rotary and menacing energetic but indescribable competitive and aggressive aggressive or unlawful rapid native transcendent worthy slight brief previous dishonest single and unselfish unlawful and reprehensible perhaps vigorous always defensive deliberate, proprietary obvious and rational explosive, useless misguided and unjust independent and unsupported religious and best correspondingly violent profane scandalous brief but correspondingly violent republican, heroic boldly reckless corporeal and intermittent small, unselfish wicked or superstitious immediate basic sympathetic and unsympathetic vascular and visceral queer and apparently accidental compulsive physical unconscious purposive further precipitous such catalytic slow crustal abnormal chemical immediate and often direct remarkable and decisive militarily appropriate apparently humane correct, necessary apparently humane and charitable long-term independent revolutionary, childish risky evasive trifling, jealous free purposeful virtuous and difficult strictly unilateral illustrious and resplendent brilliant evasive criminal and enormous unsentimental and unscrupulous bravest and most virtuous concerted collective meanest and most popular remedial mental german rear-guard violent and instantaneous outward sinful drastic federal serious and most practised similar drastic compassionate, envious complex dual rapid but successful overt legal filthy immoral nonviolent direct extraordinary and very significant former volcanic repulsive and ferocious much pantomimic interested fine conscious free vile and fickle analogous physiological natured and well-bred unintentional or unavoidable guilty and unjust definite concerted immediate, present small or wicked malicious or deceitful irresponsible and insubordinate merely impulsive or instinctive skillful, soft ridiculous and insane anti-slavery political faulty psychic bactericidal compulsive and protective subsequent metamorphic primary obsessive ironical, inscrutable mimical, irrational distinct meritorious certain pantomimic strenuous and decisive recrudescently violent mimetic anticipatory fierce and critical completely straightforward good-natured or liberal intelligent and purposeful unjust and vicious 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 natural or inexplicable subterranean igneous odious and pernicious drastic and irrational necessary corrective guilty and barbarous malignant good thoughtless and high-spirited extreme disciplinary ethically proper humane benevolent nice evasive so-called instinctive honest and free powerful and offensive 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 individual selfish other derogatory still unclear specific muscular potentially treasonous irregular and extraordinary external voluntary severe and savage concerted violent volcanic evasive illegal and stupid rude, unconscious wonderfully erratic concerted intelligent unsavory or immoral timeless, utter hostile or intelligent aggressive or hostile potentially hostile or intelligent possibly shameful quiet and specific extreme and possibly shameful sane and good quick and drastic recent seditious precocious, irksome personally aberrant quick evasive ever disciplinary rare, unified hideously illegal fatal and swift resultant official individual affirmative unexpected and objectionable decisive, large-scale negative and hostile sneaky, practical recent outrageous further sensible harsh, necessary utmost disciplinary sexist, illegal ultimate gray mild but nevertheless counterproductive one-two, one-two nevertheless counterproductive old, voluntary alternate, possible sweet evasive con�ceal illegal impending evasive certain inhumane likely hostile flagrant illegal significant and sadistic individualized and consequently unequal overt hostile outrageous and uncharacteristic foolish and unjustifiable universally predictable and deplorable unwarranted aggressive universally predictable rear, retrograde simple, self-serving unorthodox evasive evil, extreme imaginative and perhaps heroic gentle, constructive impending destructive important and very consequential bloody rear-guard ridiculous, meaningless definite and highly interesting brutally restrictive uncharacteristically generous more rear-guard immediate additional upcoming brash powerful undulating sporadic offensive appropriate evasive similarly clever natural volcanic worthy or heroic involuntary pelvic questionable and even illegal necessary, quick massive, drastic emphatically patriotic simple unlawful standard turkish blackest and meanest worst sadistic never awkward or ill-timed futile, angry never awkward simple and mundane high-handed and cynical immediate and swift conquests--naval blatantly stupid justifiable and dutiful swift, purposeful relatively justifiable formal disciplinary relatively justifiable and dutiful drastic military partial but obstinate defensive or evasive unconscious voluntary purely unnecessary dark and questionable evasive and direct sly reprehensible preventive or supportive unconventional human desperate diversionary else many and various decisive and constant else many possibly regrettable benevolent or evil intricate and necessary modest valiant repetitive, intentional harsh rousing practical and sudden uncaused and voluntary massive diversionary disgraceful and abusive unreasonable and perilous unlawful or unmoral immediate and affirmative ill injurious bloodiest and longest excessively independent dangerous and irresponsible later lawless legally objectionable aside profitable stupid symbolic sharpest and most significant random, odd bravest and meanest more bestselling strongest, bravest and meanest basically indescribable long indecisive wondrous powerful audacious and mischievous frantic elusive petty familiar brash and unexpected male characteristic free evasive civil but religious inherently absurd and appalling transcendant worthy harsh disciplinary null or indifferent arbitrary decisive criminal, null or indifferent zero-sum rear-guard curious and truest radical evasive successive and complex positive and dangerous prudent and most valiant spontaneous or cosmic contrary, quick high and virtuous corresponding memorable unilateral lunatic other and illegal physical and paraphysical childish or private steady, repetitive incoherent foolish much punitive distant chemical growth-suppressing industrial or martial suitable disciplinary such indecisive valiant rear-guard arduous and highly skillful purported disciplinary meanest and most impotent hideously disreputable foolish and degrading pre-emptive, covert direct and unsteady truly fast-paced incorrect muscular habitual or forthright perpetual muscular fast evasive partial vascular brisk rear-guard concurrent or successive instantaneous and heroic greater sensitive possibly volcanic immortal rear-guard glayshal chemical or solvent coherent and single purely solvent and chemical peaceful concerted atmospheric and organic ruthless and tragic influential natural arbitrary or unpopular conditional free absurdly quixotic patriotic or benevolent corresponding molecular else minor difficult, common energetic vascular immediate and uncompromising strange and illegal unnatural and brutal woronowo--partial rapid, melodramatic winter--partial harmonious and compact strongest and most healthy rapid and momentarily successful small considerate accordingly rational specific post-earthquake accordingly rational or intelligent constructive and prudent selfish, unfair peculiar compressive false or ruinous good or sinful immense corrosive particular better terrific, volcanic brave and disinterested arbitrary or preposterous humiliating and secret authoritative and responsible radiant and electric breathless dramatic criminal and violent rude or indelicate habitual intelligent good expansive exterior ordinary pernicious or criminal plucky, capable disadvantageous or unjust impious and bad affirmative and universal charitable and useful disruptive geological certainly military especial violent luminous and sonorous turbulent diluvial lightest and most innocent permanent alkaline virile and gymnastic rapid solvent intellectual and rhythmical distinct rotary eccentric and mutinous apparently generous and impulsive small or blind natural, graceful and energetic simpler physiological joint and reciprocal --moral and immoral political and collective wrong, --moral and immoral separate uneasy paradoxical and preposterous immediate, irrevocable true proprietary austere political moral, personal preventive or destructive little or apparently unimportant unfortunate and headstrong brilliant but bloody consequent atmospheric past vile further reckless morally good or evil thunderously spectacular sensational or frivolous ultimate beneficial contrary, unconscious careless or impertinent laudable and heroic unscrupulous individualistic positive elementary unfair and arbitrary unwise and wholly irresponsible molecular muscular minor extraordinary abominably bold various rear-guard instinctive and purely automatic dubious and misleading unrestrained and conspicuous useful or glorious final constitutional bad, murderous needless and irrelevant depraved voluntary merely needless and irrelevant consequent retrograde merely needless weak and retrograde provocative and apparently purposeless stronger or unnatural gallant and severe certain unwise accurately concerted decisively governmental undoubtedly illegal
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Words to Describe actions
As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "actions" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "actions" are: non-violent direct, alternately vivacious and sullen, alternately vivacious, peculiar and sometimes shady, and immediate, constructive. There are 992 other words to describe actions listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe actions 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, "actions" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.
Note also that if there aren't many actions 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 actions?
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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