Describing Wordsfor Colours

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Here are some adjectives for colours: instrumental, bright, faint, diseased, beautiful or even gorgeous, hence bright, often metallic and iridescent, hence conspicuous, conspicuous and diversified, distinct and yet separable, finest azure, sombre and sarcastic, striking and veracious, brilliant or conspicuous, clear and everlasting, bright, hardy, gay enamelled, delicate and brighter, astoundingly brilliant, again conspicuous, brilliant, unsatisfying, quietly hallucinatory, cool natural, merely partial and wishy-washy, brave and sweetly blended, warm positive, powerfully different, softest or brightest, especially primary, tertiary and dubious, gorgeous and chaotic, truest and worst. You can get the definitions of these colours adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to colours (and find more here).

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Words to Describe colours

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

instrumental, bright faint, diseased beautiful or even gorgeous hence bright often metallic and iridescent hence conspicuous conspicuous and diversified distinct and yet separable finest azure sombre and sarcastic striking and veracious brilliant or conspicuous clear and everlasting bright, hardy gay enamelled delicate and brighter astoundingly brilliant again conspicuous brilliant, unsatisfying quietly hallucinatory cool natural merely partial and wishy-washy brave and sweetly blended
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warm positive powerfully different softest or brightest especially primary tertiary and dubious gorgeous and chaotic truest and worst countless gorgeous sane wholesome habits--sexual dingy high-art glaring and hideous own cantonal amiable and enchanting boldest and fairest fly dutch unutterably odious gross and odious few and unobtrusive azure and other new transient random, brilliant unchanging signal violent, unusual unpleasant and unnameable delectable and imperishable drab and unassuming distinct and primogenial native and beautiful strikingly gay strikingly gay and conspicuous pure spectral splendid and harmonious well-known rosy especially sadder intermediate stellar hazy, quiet plain brilliant true traitorous citron and green bright and conspicuous gay or delicate dim, fairy remarkably bright and clear nauseous and odious characteristic sexual faintest and lightest notoriously fugitive brown, red and yellow striking and variegated true and baneful strong and flattering raucous and blatant cool and mournful joyous and sombre scientifically meaningless nearly harmonious delectable and various dark and green distinguishable and discernable proper harsh mellow, comfortable opaque bright quick-drying opaque extremely beautiful but fugitive primitive and supplementary thinner, several glaring irritating black and faintly yellow--brutal yellow--brutal faintly yellow--brutal unmodified bright green and exhilarating cold and sweet languorous and unnameable broad, vivid striped autumnal sombre middle-class bright, splashy painful unknown soft and scintillating fly french interesting, brighter wet, primary flat, primary unnatural hybrid venerable regimental coarse variegated scintillating, blinding strong and proper always delicate and beautiful gentle russet glaring, gaudy sombre negative possible, complementary faint tentative bright, unconquerable hectic, unnatural present-day variegated scientifical intellectual gorgeous and heroic lurid and symbolic other, vivid warm and fascinating strong but true gorgeous or delicate generally variegated actually warm or cold severe proper intense and ambitious other emphatical discerning emphatical real and phantastical offensively vivid purely emphatical bluish and yellowish individual or prevalent plain ancestral corresponding conspicuous intrinsic or normal pale transitory different, quaint beauteous and vivid fantastical or transient unnecessarily lurid complementary or similar outworn and false amazingly fresh blue, brown and yellow earthy and green satisfactory best few substantive subjective complementary remote and liquid harmoniously assorted solid and even sunny still clear and fresh white and inconspicuous black, white and inconspicuous joyous, passionate therefore mineral fragmentary regimental complacent and prophetic brilliant but beautiful fugitive certain semi-neutral tertiary and semi-neutral deep opaque sienna and other solid or opaque primary or simple strictly orange transparent primitive rather duller darker and rather duller suitable direct gay, pleasing odious and veritable lovely inexplicit simple or grave red, blue and other brightest and most incredible decidedly conspicuous dull and inconspicuous rather dull and obscure blue, yellow and reddish white or sometimes pale delicious sun-baked permanent, darker rich and lucid many and enchanting quite fierce and glaring frank rich unfairly gloomy few blended magenta or other bright and permanent gay stable rich entangled frequently raw and harsh protective duller new and not pleasant common, distinctive indistinct and airy primitive or pure vivid raw startling and unforgettable exaggeratedly dark warm lifelike especially cheerful and pleasing natural vivid prominent, beautiful and vivid brightest and most gorgeous visible pure diversified and proper effective, bright opaque or mineral definite pure native undisguised true turquoise yellow, grey or brownish grey, brown and other brisk and vivid aforesaid intermediate intently various dark or sober black and sober vivid poisonous broad and lurid dull or sad drab and similar brown, drab and similar quiet, civilian theoretically uncongenial red, blue or purple still new and brilliant glaring, clear whole or entire purple rustic bright elusive chief fairy fervent and fluent soft, exotic subjective or optical brown motley aloft spanish unsatisfactory, fresh resplendent but fleeting graver and finer quiet, softer high glaring glaring and heterogeneous crystal and turquoise various monochromatic autumn--autumnal full, soft and brilliant bright and sometimes garish exceedingly rich and harmonious harsh and garish tertiary or neutral purple and various generally deeper and brighter truly complementary true and atrocious sober or gentle dullest and blackest famous vidal brazilian and japanese grey and feeble pasty and rich fine prismatical contemptible and most odious fair and terrifying legible yellow whole, keen sadder, richer faint or vivid dull gorgeous rich, daring originally pale raw primary gay but not dazzling impure and nauseous rich sober pristine bright luminous rich odiously black pale, soft and indefinite remarkably bright and gaudy bright primary often metallic pure primary worst and most repulsive white danish delectable human pure vivid perhaps peculiar and distinctive native and genuine earthy mineral beautiful tertiary simplest traditional common visible exactly complementary richest and most harmonious transparent brilliant beautiful but fugitive deep, exquisite dazzling, metallic harmonious and agreeable phenolic soft and tempting gay gaudy gay and various fantastic and airy brilliant and conspicuous purple and other gay and conspicuous proper masculine several gaudy pyratical gay inaccurate colours--integral spanish nationalist warm but not reflective various bright clear, uncomplicated white, green and crimson gwcrbretal indecipherable, shadowy thrilling vibrant soft, sidelong pale but individual different, nameless typically vivid hectic primary marvelous, indescribable bright and furious previous sombre deep but vibrant exotic, tasteless incandescent hallucinatory other, metallic extraordinary, deep bright jazzy blind, unidentifiable apt and significant evidently unpopular and fancy single or simple grim disgusting various gaudy false and undesirable fly british gorgeous regimental gorgeous ever-changing rich and full-bodied rich primary variegated and brilliant brilliant and fanciful warm and red bright florid customary animal frequent, rich different gay grim and undying separate, pure inherent or natural actually warm inconceivably different good transparent pleasant and distinct rich and audacious perishable exquisite new and truthful genuine and native various and astonishing speculative and scientific such convertible gilt and vivid fair loyal warmer and deeper gay and glaring bright, conspicuous dutch, french and spanish delicate, indescribable almost woodland associate particular deep and transparent warm semi-neutral disused regimental odd, startling gay and warm bright but harmonious strong and luminous terrible raw gay glaring native and true vulgar, flashy richest and most dazzling impossible and unnatural white national forth spanish brighter or duller probably bright joyful, passionate delicate and richly variegated striped and gaudy brilliant autumnal frequently raw merely insignificant brightest and most splendid black and discreet simple spectral vivid and glaring fast natural green, brown and yellow lovely fleeting fullest and most vivid striking brilliant brightest and most glaring richest and most tasteful low and dusky gaudily variegated beautiful, variegated vivid metallic tattered regimental also showy yellowish and brown usual and other attractive and seductive brilliant realistic sad and aesthetic intermediate simple strong glaring appropriate orchestral bright harmonious separate and pure false and capricious generally deeper bright and violent loud and inharmonious present bright wonderful, dark darkest and yet truest real heraldic bright tragic brilliant bright brilliant transparent extraordinarily bizarre stronger and warmer preferred lighter thoughtful and contemplative vivid and rich bolder, deeper or stronger scarlet and ingrained grey, natural conspicuous, daring originally gorgeous similar anti-intellectualism anti-intellectualism highly byronic soft and indefinite orange and amber doubtfully auspicious clear primary bright and gaudy strong dead careful and subtle merely partial sweetly blended fine and uncommon white and other prismatical bright and sombre more sundry many and brilliant various faint earthy or mineral simple liquid impossibly different vivid primary different bright other livelier green and other white and gay plain but faithful bright oriental gaudy and brilliant lively poetical brilliant and various few but distinct hard enamelled rich fantastic specifically male certain cognate more gritty poisonous mineral faint and visionary various and tempting bold and gaudy brightest and most amiable generally obscure harsh and bright rich, sombre pale ashen almost nameless vermilion and purple liveliest and truest vermilion and other greenish and bluish sober, neutral primitive and elementary graphic and brilliant brown and other good sad faint and dark wild, lurid gay external own regimental fearfully vivid clear and vibrant different and beautiful infinitely darker sad, sombre crimson and other gay, golden coarse bloody exquisite and radiant palest and most delicate queer faint dark lurid primogenial present protective reddish or brown singular bright sudden, wonderful many blended confectionery various dead various gay emphatical blue and other less bright deep, livid cold pastel iridescent pastel harsh primary true lifelike brilliant primary bright tribal black, white and red gloomy, unstable real moist peculiarly sombre queer, unheard-of solid primary drab military green false green and mauve fleeting, vivid proud regimental evidently unpopular brighter, fairer strong and glaring dead and fine clear familiar true and stable weak and transient still fresh and bright strong and even violent primary and complementary yellow and other hot and brown other and entirely different naked and uncouth probable ancestral naturally bright mutually attractive impossibly vivid warm and high fierce and glaring quite fierce different green various and delectable clearest and brightest bright and fantastic finest and most brilliant fast green pale and dusky black and other red and brilliant strange radiant purple and rich permanent and beautiful rich and many transparent dark clear, vital standard and other various pleasing somewhat brilliant deeper or stronger strongest and liveliest blue or blue-green green and yellowish such gaudy deep and warm pale shadowy bright and vivid various hideous many jewelled red, blue and white warm and cold much blacker brisk, bright own prime brilliant, variegated delicate, bright bright and festive bright and rich darker or lighter simple and primary less clean white or other rich, solid dull and quiet few frank rather brighter rich, barbaric artificial mineral same fancy dull and obscure gray or green beautifully blended already german magnificent metallic cruel, violent homogeneal once gaudy gay and dazzling bright and striking sometimes garish richest and most delicate brilliant, joyous fairly pleasing correct heraldic rich variegated actual primary bright delicate thin fantastic exquisitely delightful delicate pastel pleasant bright dull neutral soft agreeable various brilliant fine gay common and ordinary peculiarly bright great vibrant warm pastel dark and gaudy equally scintillating strange, vibrant well co-ordinated distinct and bright such sombre bright, showy brighter and clearer diverse excellent lovely iridescent good and stable yellow and reddish low hard brilliant and harmonious such lurid gloomy, morose strange brilliant slow rich especially cheerful beautiful iridescent gay, simple rich and lavish strong brilliant such comic bright and wondrous brilliant opalescent scarlet and other high and warm bright and gorgeous --regimental thick and greasy bold, rich such orchestral deeper and brighter smaller but similar positive and strong ordinary liquid warm strong hot and lurid old and mature arbitrary standard brightest and most conspicuous true foul new and unpleasant dark, moody own heraldic soft, harmonious brightest possible livery delicate soft certain appropriate odious and detestable such vivid brilliant egyptian subtle, dangerous strong emphatic supply unlimited brilliant chinese strange, suggestive fresh and brilliant gloomy and sombre black or very dark various pale sometimes pale several and different peculiar and permanent several discordant bright vivacious certain enigmatical sufficiently lurid beautiful vivid other dazzling various spectral richest, fullest double dutch fair and attractive extremely bright strange horrible perhaps peculiar excellent and perfect complementary bad modern former bright such gay old bright bright, gilded rich, luscious dark turgid strong, dramatic fresh, dark new angry many inspirational faint pastel dull and dirty grave, sombre inexplicit different and various gaudy silken various and brilliant black or bright opaque and transparent fierce hard grey or brownish queer japanese soft harmonious rich harmonious delicately blended fair and radiant warm tan dull, rich orange spanish equally singular rich and vivid sad dark soft and rich bright, fiery bright, brave fanciful and romantic rather sombre wonderful bright bright and showy myriad sparkling bright and glaring undoubtedly true cold and deep hard, definite several vivid mellow autumnal beautiful and vivid own multitudinous charcoal or other ripe warm grave brown pure and permanent reddish tan broad solid several shady deepest and richest same detestable |original usually dull many bright warm russet various and beautiful own vibrant strong and vibrant dark, delicate once vivid simple strong dazzling and brilliant fierce glaring strange, mystical old rosy weak and defective beautiful translucent extremely sombre many unnamed dark and revolting bright attractive such animated bright and variegated remarkably bright cheerful and pleasing bright and soft deepest, richest important basic sufficiently bright somewhat lurid exquisite metallic rich, harmonious dutch national exquisite iridescent brilliant metallic such rosy certain fugitive certain pure rich and gay rich metallic gay and fanciful bright and sweet sad and sombre bad new few glaring gay and gaudy many variegated many variable different primary soft, dainty more contradictory green metallic often brilliant same faithful radically false dark and tragic other gay rich quiet true yellow pale pastel dark and murky fantastically brilliant odd, secret deep volcanic cold and warm true and apparent usual patriotic unenticing such variable different brilliant gaudy and fantastic bright, full certain direct finely blended vivid and brilliant bright and strong rich local proper heraldic many fiery brightest and loveliest green and many own shameful strange, unhappy more garish specific individual therefore different intense and brilliant softer, sweeter beautiful brilliant transparent and opaque rich and glossy black and tawny _mineral same several few mineral british and austrian norwegian national strong, vivid more gaudy elementary and secondary certain bright lovely pale brightest various and extraordinary wonderfully vivid so-called aesthetic real rich green and russet strangely vivid separate different blackest possible red and other precious historical rather lighter other transparent various primary clear, delicate soft and deep rather showy other warm other vivid soft, rich less sombre same gaudy swedish national various soft gloomy and terrible bright, rich numerous intermediate gay and pleasant present different vivid lovely clear certain single comparatively warm unusually bright deep rich other fainter hyperreal searingly bright always delicate many wondrous beautiful and dazzling soft mysterious bright floral good and full strange barbaric soft and brilliant many dazzling pale cool plain and sombre pure new deep, vibrant strong and brilliant such odious variegated many gaudy _sexual sometimes black vivid and intense painfully vivid delicate thin dark rich many shocking unusually striking vivid and striking proper national brighter regimental same gorgeous other edible solid dark deep translucent odd metallic usual flamboyant scarlet and blue good and durable strong primary less conspicuous several bright fine and curious soft, dim less gaudy bright rich own radical sometimes beautiful soft beautiful sepia thy beauteous various beautiful more glaring such gloomy gaudy british and egyptian soft, shy sharp, small certain momentary black and deep old regimental red, white and black

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Words to Describe colours

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "colours" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "colours" are: instrumental, bright, faint, diseased, beautiful or even gorgeous, hence bright, and often metallic and iridescent. There are 995 other words to describe colours listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe colours 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, "colours" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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