Describing Wordsfor Color

examples: nose,  winter,  blue eyes,  woman

Here are some adjectives for color: odd burnt-orange, sober or sombre, divine secondary, same uninspired, same, unusual, good half-inch, disconcerting greenish, cold unreal, primitive complementary, apparently three-dimensional, loathsome gray, mushy, hazy, strange, burnt-orange, indeterminate, stormy, stormy darker, supposedly defective, warm and yet alien, astonishing rich, nice, money-making, thin, hectic, often raucous, opalescent, fiery, similar misty, pale immediate, venomous, red, brightest characteristic, carmelite tan, clear waxy, pure or full, middling brown. You can get the definitions of these color adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to color (and find more here).

Sort By Usage Frequency

Click words for definitions.

Words to Describe color

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

odd burnt-orange sober or sombre divine secondary same uninspired same, unusual good half-inch disconcerting greenish cold unreal primitive complementary apparently three-dimensional loathsome gray mushy, hazy strange, burnt-orange indeterminate, stormy stormy darker supposedly defective warm and yet alien astonishing rich nice, money-making thin, hectic often raucous opalescent, fiery similar misty pale immediate venomous, red brightest characteristic
describing words continue after advertisement
carmelite tan clear waxy pure or full middling brown uncomfortably brilliant normal reddish unhealthy pasty determinedly average unreal greenish orderly narrow strange, off-white specious and probable horrid orange incredible tawny dull gunmetal unique coppery indecent and abhorrent alien, bright susceptible blue agreeable, silky deader and greener nice yellow-brown raw bright exactly orthodox thy nighted hideous, drab ugly ashen dismal gray-black alarming purple sunmetal richly luminous beautifully clear and delicate dreadful drab vivid shiny autum�nal imaginable pastel stark, leaden waxy, off-white gray and eggshell dreadful pasty sinister rusty dead, greenish greenish dark-blue crisp deep sullen, molten warm, yellow-green marvellously gorgeous national or regimental accidental and complementary nice yellowish imaginable national dirty, waxen appropriate orange beautiful bright-green vermilion or orange peculiarly rich and clear irritating yellow dead, pasty exact complementary whitish or tan wavy, same pure or vivid speckled or dark rather dark-gray material and same vivid or delicate darker dirty lighter reddish bluish or other delicious ruddy duller and brighter same pearl-gray greenish, brassy deeper and soupy appealingly warm dull unaccustomed mousy blonde wondrous, terrible warm, yellowish feverish high brassy red fairly bland green-tinted, off-white vivid and beauteous gray or bluish dull, languid true pale dramatic fiery ruddy artificial pasty, dead natural blue-black neutral russet funny spotty real eighth chalky, pasty sickly brownish bluish muddy natural, high lame hazel softly scintillating normal swarthy dull, brassy muddy russet least tasteful similar dingy animated full foggy, opalescent hideous glow-in-the-dark native tan vivid and exact horrible excremental lovely dense lustrous pearl-gray deep leaden natural and irrefutable peculiar magenta bright \-autumnal \-autumnal brighter, natural blinding, nameless harsh citron duller red disagreeable yellow normal tan smooth, same distinct, yellow yellow or same beautiful striking leaden brownish rough whitish rusty yellowish natural leaden platz--local dusky drab sometimes vivid full and sometimes vivid historic and local brown and somewhat black golden silky brown or amber intensely chromatic luscious, translucent true or local proud indignant basic individual greenish drab general rusty bright creamy uneven brownish thick or pasty somewhat thick or pasty variable, inexpressible rival plain mellow lavender fresher, breezier clear, waxy associate true opaque, brown-black sinister, gray always red or black dazzling, garish black, general essentially greater or nobler essentially greater lighter, yellowish dark, yellow-green clear magenta dark key such amethystine unusual, splendid amber, amber permanent olive pale steel-gray nice golden obnoxious yellow interesting green nasty greenish horrible livid tn-dimensional dusky lavender early rigid extremely matrimonial brownish or rusty indescribably vague unpleasant yellow whole but little brilliant glossy gloomy purple carnal human original fair appropriate pink garish unnatural sick and depressing dusty greenish overall blue nice animated lighter yellow-brown bleached tan solid darker full, natural ugly waxen sandy orange old intentional healthy, ruddy deep, blue-black inhumanly red wonderful tan same brown-black unwholesome green radiant tawny almost charcoal autum\-nal dull, yellow-brown pure, ever-changing red or flaming deep, azure dirty muddy vague tawny sickish yellow proper dark healthy jocund improbable but fascinating wan taffy normal amber good vibrant al green disgusting and often raucous glorious and gory ghostly unhealthy nasty reddish ugly green-brown same eggshell stark bleached enormously quiet brown, bituminous many high-quality nondescript rusty organic pink excruciating pink terrible, livid gorgeous, luminous nasty off-white kinda purple faint, pastel full-sized three-dimensional frightening crimson earthy olive unwholesome white rich cheery sharply white and red sharply white latest bright savage local particularly curious and uninviting yellowish fatty gorgeous local low juicy green and olive distressing ashen back tan mellow pale rosy, fiery still pure and strong troublesome intermediate natural sunburnt warm, racial luxurious and appetizing darker and reddish usually white and orange almost sepia quiet tan dark or russet sharp and feverish fresh and such faintly opaque pure creamy brown or tawny rarer orange pallid, unpleasant little healthier white drab faint and hopeful dead, chalky vivid, cherry dirty dark-green same pasty italian local slight, dull sober dark-gray orchestral and harmonic always sparkling and brilliant changeable silvery the--eh--local gray or whitish general darker full, ornate biographical or reminiscent otherwise aggressive young, tan polish local exotic, poetic sunny undecided real franciscan luminous but almost unorganized often sombre and dirty dead waxen rich, dark-gray groggy red red and cherry characteristic gray violent raspberry solid liquid rich and acidulous alternately rich and acidulous alternately rich richly dull never vermilion whitish or milky delicate, riotous showy, fine brilliant cherry old vivid clear, whitish clear grass-green opalescent warm pale or whitish tweeds--natural colored tweeds--natural perceptible whitish permanent purple dark, grass-green pale, olive-green fine, bright-green deep, olive-green peculiar dark-green present brown amber or yellow charming instrumental ashen or leaden different but very bright distinctive pink pristine dark instrumental and oriental fancy solid sunburnt sorrel peculiarly silvery indescribable, delicious whitish and incarnate good yellowish startlingly crimson amethystine blue shiny, russet red or lively red western local sudden and dextrous variegated or dusky opaque local sordid reddish sometimes tan fibrous and umber moist, whitish or tan dense and yet transparent furious, crimson lustrous steel-gray yellow-brown or tawny faint, yellow-brown or tawny somber and funereal outer and fiery full and often superior average dark-gray whitish silvery turbulent and variegated palpable artificial grateful and restful perhaps pleasing frightening gray-blue orange or vermilion pale, monotonous peculiar and brilliant pale, lilac darker over-all strongly local warm nor cool raw and valueless pure and raw valuable and solemn often valuable and solemn specific green moist pale red favorite green sacred purple favorite urban local dazzling orchestral dark and almost dingy perfect or permanent nasal or catarrhal richest secondary final and most expensive indefinite, characteristic generally snow-white opaque but vivid almost opaque but vivid unwontedly charming olive and sunburnt divine and cloudy almost vermilion false local smoother, better dirty, chalk-white entire vermilion distinctly lighter natchual pale, undecided orange and tan less crimson true frightful general dorsal bright or cheerful dangerous, apoplectic darker, brownish next, faint transitory red deep cloudy exquisite tabby rich somber remarkably reddish general pea-green delicate and bright clear tan hot painful recklessly rich ugly sorrel cool but transparent extremely warm and harmonious blue-black or gray-black shy, latent pale bleak soft ochre silvery golden notably darker or lighter =color=--general softer, grayed stealthy, cloying sooty dorsal purely mineral or inorganic standard and national intensely red or scarlet civil, cheerful markedly lighter dusky reddish ventral reddish nice reddish leaden, livid overweight, poor and changeable poor and changeable peculiar leaden neutral brownish yellow or sandy reddish or amber yellow, brown and green richer red warm lustrous clearest amber rosy, orange dull unattractive visible or visual standard or full full or local yellowish pale unearthly crystalline exquisite rose-pink distasteful shabby literally local compact, yellow net local neutral or yellow generally gray and white sometimes red and white pleasing brown strangest pale peculiar pasty flaxen or blonde yellowish or muddy refreshing blue obscure bright beautiful fifth cleanest, deepest dark, yellowish rosy, pink baleful and sinister beautiful maroon glossy, crimson prevalent brownish theatrical local different and terribly fierce perceptible reddish perceptible green soft, flaming beautiful amethystine dark or greenish guatemalan local strong complementary yellow and dirty green or drab material and gay warm, sunburnt suddenly unpopular dark steel-gray lively reddish rosy or florid usually red or pink usually black and tan generally white or pale unattractive greenish dusky golden deep and luminous weird blue-green faint lilac normal green dirty lavender abnormally acute warmer yellow same olive boring gray characteristic green peculiar ashen local and historic bright primary startling yellow sickly beige bluish, incandescent natural ruddy thick and angry dull, indeterminate creamy rich dead, yellow awful maroon general pastel terrible scarlet separate, vivid eerie unnatural faintly different single, marvelous venomous orange sober and humble decidedly lighter brown or olive golden tawny tan brown yellowish livid constant, dark gray or tawny +unequal annoying and inharmonious brownish or reddish drab or greenish olive gray dusky, scarlet fine iridescent faintly ruddy sickish pale coeval coaeval striking protective fresh, agreeable nice yellow odd greenish normally blue pale indistinct dull steel-gray steely blue-black strange delicate dark, indescribable horrible brown splendid luminous lurid local wonderful amber purple or bluish yellow or tawny conventional orange crisp and delicate bright unnatural naturally florid rich magenta weak greenish ruddy gray silvery brown pale and yellow somewhat livid remarkably black distinct orange fine, pink ghastly purple pale, whitish brightest orange sickly gray lovely lavender crystalline green white and inner man-made, unnatural sick, greenish pasty, unnatural small old-model molten golden unhealthy yellowish solid reddish earthy reddish fifth primary yellowish natural rich turquoise strange sulfurous coppery blue lifeless tan stupid blue boring, bad almost bluish subtly brighter remarkable and erotic pearly bluish elusive blue-green uneven beige dull off-white deceptively dark neutral mauve unfocused, naked quick conversational unsettling teal bizarre pasty softly rich distressing red lavishly mustached vivid false unplanned accidental impenetrable muddy unpopular garish worrisome, unnatural neutral beige large high-resolution crystal blue-green sullen teal metallic rosy dense, fuzzy natural pink pale sienna natural yellowish fierce, foul dim subtle scintillating magical previous pink white and so much soft teal nasty, weird queer, bloodless pastel false pale hazel mal swarthy dull gray-black dull yellow-brown appropriate cosmetic unwholesome bluish rich hazel unlikely golden impossible deep unlikely orange deeper, bronzed self-conscious, high bizarre coppery almost dusty peculiar grey normal brown tepid purple unusual, soft sleek brunette tastefully balanced vivid but tastefully balanced brilliant three-dimensional brilliant immortal gruesome purple white-opal iridescent white-opal blue-black dangerous troubling, unreadable odd rosy odd pea-green unnatural, fevered vibrant russet peculiar lilac bright burnt-orange unhealthy pink pale oatmeal full-dimensional grayed amber unhealthy sallow natural, brunette different garish funny greenish almost gray marvelous blue-black interesting hazel unusual hazel muddy mauve delicious magenta less reddish good, unobtrusive sick pasty vivid, inhuman deep ochre ugly russet disturbing yellow-brown amazingly deep milky, azure individual healthy silvery gilt unfamiliar golden milky golden brassy metallic ordinary silvery exotic, indescribable same flashy vivid, heartbreaking high, natural distinctive luminous nationalistic red healthy auburn curious, tawny high hectic sickly pallid gray and negligible distinctive visual unbelievable, luminous impossible icy strange, chalky unbearably brilliant flush green contemporary gray bright playful coppery natural unmistakable, awful neutral tan deep milk-chocolate strong, red extraordinary amber dark indeterminate new, creamier sallow normal odd, burnt-orange different, luminous particular coral gray, protoplasmic muddy gray-blue strange tawny somewhat healthier smoky, yellowish full, fluorescent soft and sullen unduly rosy say…local uncharacteristic flush full gorgeous natural off-white bright grassy nasty pasty marvelous charcoal dusty charcoal terrible ashen funny, dark eerie, ill dirty brown-black monotonous russet deep, amber completely dazzling and unexpected completely dazzling frightening gray tan, obvious sixth deluxe surprisingly vibrant blue, scarlet and purple rich arterial autum-nal indistinguishable, dark undistinguished brownish brown, same blue overwhelming lurid, gruesome peculiar turquoise appalling orange painful pink cold, brownish amazing auburn muddy brownish precise blue-green sick sepia goddamned favorite lighter beige distinctly brownish strange mauve unnatural pale original auburn strange, distinct dim, gritty human, hazel golden dark preternatural red silvery futuristic pale nutty nice sunshiny fine pearl-gray nondescript brunette sandy pale pasty lavender sexually potent vibrant inescapable sooty brown-black greasy beige utilitarian, gray dull ash-blonde ugly yellow and purple better facial gray waxy amber or beige pearly green single and sinister such lovely complementary or opposite curious and uninviting yellow tawny usual tawny realistic local blue or azure strong and satisfactory muddy maroon salty green irritating and morbid opaque, green gaudy, inharmonious rusty, dark-brown dirty steel-gray awful grey bluish, dark green or olive brown olive free brave bright, intermittent hectic brilliant furiously strenuous rich translucent drab or khaki transparent, yellowish atrocious red bluish or brownish fair and public separate vivid pure, continuous cold, wan peculiar pallid longest red dark, undecided peculiar somber pale and sombre final and natural delicately bright brown, solid smoky, red brilliant, oriental conspicuous and peculiar antagonistic or complementary almost unorganized brilliant arbitrary experience--local thick intense moral or mystical delicious, healthy solid rich sweet harmonic fresh, constant charming fresh greenish and brownish poor drab natural and frank glossy, scarlet favorite and most common sweet variable muddy yellowish appropriate astral astral orange red astral cheeks--natural fatal fairy dark or neutral dingy, hopeless purple, congested generally plain red or rosy somewhat black tawny or swarthy dreadfully nondescript whitish or yellow faint illuminating locally dark lilac, lilac whitish, opaque well-defined local blue or hazel red or tan brown or sepia reddish or dark olive or umber gray and smoky warm sienna royal, loyal peculiarly vivid and distinct lavender or blue crimson or magenta yellowish, red fine grass-green angry, garish faint, healthy dreadfully red brown or dingy present grimy dandy green dingy reddish childish flaxen white or warm dingy brownish yellowish olive blue, purple and scarlet loveliest pink distinctive yellowish natural brownish permanent liquid utterly harsh and horrible utterly harsh earthy or imperfect appropriate orchestral bold savage charming local peculiar sooty less orange black or nearly black darker dorsal always unfamiliar orange or purple brown and velvety disagreeably suggestive vivid and sparkling peculiar blue-black three-dimensional full white or frosty peculiarly mystic pale rose-pink dark ambiguous reddish or blue variable, diffuse vivid native dull, transparent once glaring harmless new reddish and purple physiological or accidental tan and single predominantly gray internal green brown or whitish identical dorsal keen instrumental brilliant, healthy other same darker reddish brilliant, transparent yellow, autumnal transparent brilliant remarkable and beauteous yellow russet

Popular Searches

xmasxenophobiayouyouthzumbazenzoellamountainsunsetcloudtigerbuildingsharkbooksnakestarcatflowerrosesongapplediamondrocksistermoondreamcastledoctorbearlakeleadersoldierpenguinbirdbrotherrestaurantmonkeycakedolphinpandaphoneteamdessertstreetbananablue skyshoebasketballwolfworldcookiedinosaurroomwomancowbreezehandparkdresslittle girlpenisherofriendshipchairburgergiraffepeacockfishteenagerlawyerprincessfruitnursecommunityswimming poolvillainmorningwatermelonrobotzombiethingcouplesoulsuperherovaginalibrarybedroomleprechaunwatchwaveholocaustpiraterelationshipdetectivestarsrabbitold manold housebeardmouth

Words to Describe color

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "color" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "color" are: odd burnt-orange, sober or sombre, divine secondary, same uninspired, and same, unusual. There are 995 other words to describe color listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe color 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, "color" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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

expedientlyarcellidaeeszettkidnappedfeldmeilenkoalamusculosomattagestadakatsukitcheemesodapedonshardauklandshamnterrorismitirapinaenlightenedperseverancenairoviridaeboistdumbasssemirahmpaemotionmuchinguriblossommultitaperscavullohimojansaelginerpetonalcoholicsdotbusterseurythermtilgunghereticallyverardmerostachyscanciohowlingnijeveenprisonniershemotoxicretroislandersteeleprocessorquintuplingchaoboridaesusrecrystallizeinterpolantscalphunterectopocynusinstallshieldloydemisteachingcreatubonvinosharpshooterimpuritieswhodunitscheckoingtabitudeintellectionladakhlisherstouhyglancingsastutenessdisintermediatemoldovanbelfothunderstormsamargasappreciatecarabaoworkaholicsmidsectionnorfenfluraminegaetaphragmoteuthidapoikilothermousacquasantieresinisterprivatierbathedstimulushighestoccupiedmolecularorbitalhemochorialopenwindowsbuilderarimaddanalatinisestarfacekwkhplagianthusoppressoreutychesinfracturwsokumvatnetdometictemperedhryvnassimmarasihummedtraumadiatribecalcifediolekkehardtreeplausiblenessfeastclaregigantothermyhabitatsthaiblivetsallahcherlyprestrictionfeetmodiuscollaboratorperiwinklechairboduppalmagnetotelephonecapillarebodgeddiscusschamouxstordahlbroshopianmoebiteleakingarchaeologycharactercanadaspididamoeilijkerjubileeiprimusmoelmudnightcambernonjumonjicarvingsmoelvreramiaconciergeandroidtvmuncycvcmansioncoredamagedsoccerlitteraturchocadadoormoggieeuarctoshanrattyimportantjailsmogheirajirkovskishairdressermogsbessheimabchatorahnondepressedmoguebusserobremebootscountrifiedimpennatenosedabkehwomenafterthoughtsanievasclassmatemohursglancedstrikemoiramaberhosonointerpetalarywellfleetadultsaltinhotitelmannabymeautocraticoutricide