Describing Wordsfor Dismay

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Here are some adjectives for dismay: sudden comic, mock pained, verdrinal feigned, accurate, intuitive, silent, panicky, denial, distraught, cold and hopeless, stark and intimate, real and wakeful, speechless and helpless, worst stark, ill, frantic, breathless, blank, profound and profoundly selfish, everywhere considerable, evident abject, motionless passive, vague, reminiscent, sudden comical, blank and sheer, helpless and comical, deep, stomach-churning, strange, animal-like, frantic and selfish, sudden and genuine, blank undisguised, unwilling but irresistible, cold crippling, ludicrous, helpless, claustrophobic, dreadful. You can get the definitions of these dismay adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to dismay (and find more here).

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Words to Describe dismay

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

sudden comic mock pained verdrinal feigned accurate, intuitive silent, panicky denial, distraught cold and hopeless stark and intimate real and wakeful speechless and helpless worst stark ill, frantic breathless, blank profound and profoundly selfish everywhere considerable evident abject motionless passive vague, reminiscent sudden comical blank and sheer helpless and comical deep, stomach-churning strange, animal-like
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frantic and selfish sudden and genuine blank undisguised unwilling but irresistible cold crippling ludicrous, helpless claustrophobic, dreadful blank, sick open and evident sober and silent silent, vague extremely short-lived such fraught vague, wide quick and utter certain inert such comic curious, sharp deep homesick great and keen own feminist faint, natural quite comical sudden naive strange, acute great, abrupt pitiful, personal profoundly selfish dreary, dull last unspeakable open and hostile less understandable almost lurid equally manifest motionless and speechless terrible, hopeless increasingly evident simple, absolute sudden, strong certain inescapable perfectly insane human and feminine sudden, great ordinary childish own abject old, automatic suddenly wild such pale foul and terrible almost visceral blank, utter vast and fearful utter and final such ironic own overpowering sudden and stunning same momentary old ignorant great and ever-increasing such bleak aghast moderate thy somewhat comic utter quite involuntary own breathless rather comical sheer mental almost frenzied natural, unaffected blank mock sudden, overpowering speechless more blank more pale dark, sullen sudden, unreasonable dismal little own probable well feigned inexpressible quite genuine numb such genuine undisguised almost ludicrous patently false comic such evident sore utter and absolute bold, brave comical evident wide-eyed lightheaded such sincere stomach-churning sudden, sharp such unmistakable such excessive almost comical more dire open-mouthed almost superstitious flabbergasted same faint great and bitter helpless, hopeless sudden and overwhelming such dire such acute almost human sheer physical bone-weary unspeakable helpless almost comic wild, sweet sudden sharp quick sharp self-consuming such general introspective abject feigned utmost round-eyed pained sudden prescient much public strange and unaccountable ludicrous sudden cold sick denial harrowing quite natural animal-like almost boyish sudden overwhelming gravid such obvious infinite profound sincerest wildest ineffable strong personal mute momentary abysmal wry obvious silent intense bogus frank own quick own intense own utter blatant still worse ever-growing fraught irate rueful unfounded sorest short-lived dumb such utter little secret heartfelt such wild breathless humorous indescribable uttermost rubicund affectionate unaffected almost childish deepest impotent dire vague panicky palpable irrepressible such black sickening apparent wild piteous ever-increasing uncontrollable initial genuine sheer goofy sudden wild dumbfounded greater and greater polite liveliest perplexed such complete hopeless more apparent nearly equal token absolute understandable apoplectic proportionate distraught prophetic guilty anticipatory mild stiff-backed sheepish acute immeasurable profoundest premonitory petulant unadulterated crestfallen faint anxious angry more intense instantaneous benevolent deep such deep manifest indignant own great stark intuitive covert considerable nerveless secret abrupt gut-wrenching blank-faced such sad complete pitiless wakeful anguished fevered equal reminiscent mutual outright almost equal wary fresh bleak whimsical slavish visceral unclean disproportionate poignant explosive frantic blinking sharp breathy overwhelming wrathful frenzied much more superstitious extreme shameful universal general overpowering scarcely less total bemused inexplicable meek sincere somnolent pallid positive visible ultimate rhetorical senile good-humored unbelieving convulsive greatest inarticulate sympathetic gloomy giddy fortuitous righteous apprehensive powerless inconceivable justifiable clamorous bitter unforeseen little less neurological childish sad quick panic-stricken pitiful dour cold vocal more complete inquiring resentful voluble boundless further mutinous unaccountable sullen exasperated claustrophobic slightest swift fearful brittle grim weary last-minute homesick especial unspoken seeming life-size patrician striking involuntary apologetic audible feminist incalculable self-conscious keenest pitiable unproductive unbearable jealous tragic tremulous sardonic glum slight terrible drunken unmistakable open naive additional crippling rousing horrible abiding eventual unreasonable well-bred wan immediate unexplained respectful doleful worse hushed inescapable instinctive deeper numbing metropolitan fastidious innocent undeniable agreeable pale discomfited lurid sorrowful dazed canine paternal inert collective enraged accurate consequent shrill excessive loathsome interminable plaintive restless dull sputtering out-and-out chivalrous natural grotesque lifelong imminent disdainful expressive widespread perceptible scorched supernatural darkest impulsive characteristic consummate tolerant lone bottomless hostile ferocious stolid quiet flattering inspiring still further theatrical tense nervous selfish dreary corresponding grave insidious foul simultaneous vast painful aesthetic profane subsequent convincing gradual probable certain belated least masculine limp dreadful muffled mortal motionless keen satisfactory terminal graver dim unusual playful unlimited high-pitched inconsiderable desperate intimate dizzy feminine identical strange icy boyish provincial futile ironic such great everlasting perfect weird public urgent passive curious sober common temporary plain smug mystical joint appalling gaunt dainty terrifying loud continual personal mournful professional greater nameless stern troubled parental insane slow furious stupid dark actual mindless despairing organic false hasty leaden huge gentle habitual less overall chaotic ill eager hideous stunning unwilling mechanical incipient mad serious dismal random delicious weak pathetic fleeting blind inevitable passionate honest intolerable chronic somber scant brief charming pure physical ignorant wide hard direct mental savage irresistible red wise sour moral particular inner good-natured incomparable permanent awful desolate proud national alternate unfamiliar grateful protective grey remote subtle recent mere extraordinary joyous immense blue steady complex fair earliest gray more or less human late popular black strong tremendous final conscious political bold rare soft humble violent evil real dramatic religious automatic rude past necessary sublime sweet miserable private simple useless sure calm colored familiar brave solemn vain dear british fatal double eternal white queer practical heavy full best great usual former high happy entire peculiar present ordinary clear occasional enormous proper beautiful dead fine true old more long

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Words to Describe dismay

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "dismay" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "dismay" are: sudden comic, mock pained, verdrinal feigned, accurate, intuitive, and silent, panicky. There are 688 other words to describe dismay listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe dismay 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, "dismay" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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