Describing Wordsfor Emotion

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Here are some adjectives for emotion: full but soft, growingly unrestrained, frantic, visible, poignant, terrible, noble, rare, wild, indefinable, greatest impersonal, visible and troubled, strange and intolerable, unutterably strange and intolerable, faint, unavoidable, acute or vehement, faintest native, terrible explicit, raw pent-up, cool, numbing, weak and debilitating, hopeless one-sided, ragged unreadable, slightest palpable, tragic mysterious, mute and reverential, vague and sweet, common but ineffable, loving reverential, other, acute, much sickening, intense, unsettling, least controllable, genuine primitive. You can get the definitions of these emotion adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to emotion (and find more here).

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Words to Describe emotion

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

full but soft growingly unrestrained frantic, visible poignant, terrible noble, rare wild, indefinable greatest impersonal visible and troubled strange and intolerable unutterably strange and intolerable faint, unavoidable acute or vehement faintest native terrible explicit raw pent-up cool, numbing weak and debilitating hopeless one-sided ragged unreadable slightest palpable tragic mysterious mute and reverential vague and sweet common but ineffable loving reverential
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other, acute much sickening intense, unsettling least controllable genuine primitive basic bestial ><p>tidal greater unnameable grateful and painful painfully joyous unforeseen and involuntary quite mannered great or deep reflective, passive also stronger or more contrary and stronger different and equally powerful profound, unusual fresh sentimental something--reciprocal down something--reciprocal fiery swift strong, deep and sincere deep joyous bashfully profound strong, unnamed furcotal powerful, undefined dark and self-defeating queer bittersweet singularly passionate strong or sudden contemplative and disinterested meanly sexual sudden, deep and tragic vital or noble faint sexual warm, pagan visible and deep poverty-stricken, false inflamed religious ardent, devout intimate and inscrutable pleasing or profound sudden, much sombre and personal new and profoundly disturbing husky and vibrant natural, reverential genuine uninhibited similar but entirely unpleasant deeper and depressing predominant human simply difficult painful or simply difficult raw, pent-up unclean human hot, lustful strong, indecipherable unfamiliar powerful extraneous and potentially dangerous ungovernable, overwhelming ecstatic and deep unwelcome or unfashionable frighteningly rare savage hysterical unfamiliar, deep-seated human, collective still collective small but still collective superficial and feigned strongest resultant particular or transient painful and evident strongly generous pleasurable expansive solemn, overpowering apparently baseless extraordinary and apparently baseless cosmic or epochal vague and powerful scientific and amatory powerful and diversified peculiar or violent vivid and noble single, synthetic past and genuine true or feigned strong or peculiar visible joyful intense and wild single pleasurable mystic and tranquil sudden and most untoward internal and exciting unhealthy periodical painful or unworthy unconscious, uncontrollable powerful or protracted characteristic primary sudden but most profound painful and debilitating disquieting, troublesome natural thine bashful and indescribable profoundest and most painful recent and strong vague and painful unutterably strange pure, feral poignant and vivid unexpected, intense subtle vague natural and primal hazy, difficult ritual and human more containable common, intelligible condescending sympathetic slightest inadvertent raw unbridled curious incalculable quite different and unfathomable explosive human mighty calm insecure, neurotic just disembodied nakedly clear intense, protective noble and unspoken noncommittal, genuine strong, truthful sudden, pent-up physically painful and painful brutish, ungrateful irrational and indefinable extreme and powerful thick drunken unaccustomed and uncomfortable bashful but uncontrollable silvery, flawless mild or gentle overwhelming, all-powerful raw, fierce sexy, glorious weird, miserable weird, unidentified heady, feral thrilling and unexplainable deep, thrilling and unexplainable tremendous and lofty still delicious dreadful and still delicious affectionate and estimable somewhat violent and commonplace violent and commonplace tame and essentially selfish undefined but intense paltry and sinful conscious pleasurable fine, impersonal ubiquitous spiritual strange, ashamed pure, unimpassioned intense or mystical extreme vivid equally automatic actual and ostensible extreme and passionate extravagant and overpowering straightforward, unmistakable strong and almost fearful notable and evident incessant and un-american new, sudden and exquisite almost cosmical overwhelming penetrating sudden but ineffable much and too various pure and uncontrolled stern or angry delicious, inexplicable silent voluptuous violent but delicious strange idealistic sweet and pleasurable intimately happy expressive, uncontrollable grand but calm big extraordinary acute, intolerable fruitful harmonious fervent and stern bitter and devastating intense, aggressive earlier impetuous perpetchal voluminous silent single unchanged pertinent dramatic poignant, unrecognizable unrestrained and candid remote, mystical deep or lofty violent and irrepressible national or cosmic deep and almost irrepressible secondary and injurious grim and uncertain altogether unwise fundamental and unconscious nice, prosaic ungovernable and vindictive brave or angry inexpressible, grateful multitudinous vague religious, fundamental unbroken, synthetic absurdly infantile kindly joyful sad, alien rousing strong mysterious and almost fanciful complex and often troublesome wistful, fresh pent-up popular old, vivid powerful, vague essential and strong deep and indefinable largely hereditary and common largely hereditary pleasant and indolent fleeting psychical uplifting, exalted powerful singular joyful, modest unmistakably profound unnecessary and grotesque quite unnecessary and grotesque utterly anti-social and anti-individual utterly anti-social normal and ideal intense omnipresent undue or foolish strong and protracted morbid or sentimental impressive, penetrating curiously grateful violent and profound unspoken, incomprehensible unfamiliar and wonderful altruistic, impersonal dramatic or even moneymaking slightest depressing strong cynical legitimate and pleasurable clean and poetic free or unemployed deep and uncontrollable large poignant profound or sublime haughty mad abstract and aimless heart-rending, silent rapt and reverential extravagant and restless exuberant and sudden faint nor fruitless powerful, strange indefinable, vague much and so incomprehensible obscure and rare new ecstatic present and passionate still present and passionate proud, unhealthy unknown and ineffable awful pent-up tempestuous, angry involuntary and uncontrolled strong and almost irrepressible profoundest prophetic profound but erratic exalted or enthusiastic rarely deep poignant and profound elemental direct primitive, vulgar painful and deep recent intense subtle and only half-expressed gentle and pleasurable immediately great immediately great and painful vague, transcendental violent and noble distinctively legal startling but indefinable silent but tumultuous vague, unjustifiable pleasurable and legitimate mere uncontrolled form--general due form--general evident internal poignant unknown strong or persistent heartfelt sad fierce or passionate mysterious, inexpressible unspoken poetical grave and almost solemn sudden and very rare vague irrepressible venturesome and prodigal violent, speechless mutual, warm bitterest and strongest violent, unconquerable softer, feminine true unerring sweeter and livelier tumultuous, irrepressible incipient moral beloved historic deep and most private true or artificial dormant generous pre-eminently pleasurable second-hand or spurious profound and exquisitely painful large and unspeakable genuine loyal altruism--social turbulent and sensible merely mystical and allegorical definable human bright ineffable conscious and obvious transient and commonplace least malignant poignant and sincere subtle, extraordinary lofty and abstract european deep merely secondary and personal dangerous contradictory indefinable tumultuous subtle and heavy wholesome, new cold and tame commonest, strongest sharp and poignant violent and sensible tremendous, great curious and impersonal aimless religious fleeting lyrical great or ardent vague, unfathomable purely subjective and misleading subjective and misleading intense intoxicating unusual and supernatural hearty but ignominious tense and vivid sweet, undeniable heroic and ardent deepest and most sublime fancy, perceptive great, wholesale melodious but vague uneducated genuine pure and often profound effusive febrile strong and poignant unique pleasurable subconscious atavistic just selfish strange, poignant nonpsychological potent unified specially joyful new and godlike raw, unbridled little indefinable strong favorable false tragic much sloppy actual deep natural and transient rather cosmic characteristic aesthetic dramatic or tragic lively internal sad but quiet strongest and most intense exciting religious deepest and most personal genuine and respectable vehement and continual warm grateful depressing and debilitating powerful and protracted final, mysterious occasonal strangely various vivid and wild gentle and voluptuous vehement and turbulent last recognizable such high-powered different and unfathomable profound and exalted colder, darker rapid, low powerful but vague mere noble natural and pious reckless and insane violent, joyous tragic or pathetic wild and indescribable absolute predictable stronger, hotter corrosive and dangerous unpredictable hormonal genuine deep onditionally honest mildly visible deep primordial warmer and purely mundane bloody strong deep, unreasonable least dependable unbridled and unchecked sheer negative strong, unidentifiable whole, mortal somewhat bogus delicious and somewhat bogus painful and pleasurable deep unreadable unwelcome and unattractive tempestuous romantic unnecessarily excessive significant reptilian raw panicky powerful but unspecified pointless, invalid simple, finite usual short-range much hysterical necessarily depressing painful and painful mutual painful least, intense particularly reasonable intense, religious evident single strong and pleasurable low sombre urgent, shocking terrifyingly strong new and unstable totally destructive and negative deeply knotted pure, dark appeal and raw grubby bourgeois thrilling awful obvious strange fragile transitory physical and adventurous }purely self-consuming physi}{cal mere physi}{cal raw, unchecked discordant and unfamiliar universally understandable con­ceal largely unfathomable notoriously erratic true, panicky conscious, raw shallow, washed-out true, unchecked truly uncontrolled uncharacteristic proprietorial strong and heartfelt chaotic red new and almost inexpressible painful, shocking and horrible intense, unspoken complex canine raw, intimate raw, messy strongest and cleanest blinding extreme basic and elemental vivid and superb sufficiently overwhelming appropriate ethical sudden primitive deep or strong deep unchanging crystal soft real or spiritual violent and overwhelming decidedly pleasurable much voluptuous ethical or poetic gentle and moral refined and fanciful fierce and new powerful racial profound overwhelming solitary, big sentimental and useless profound poetical softest and most contagious terrible pent-up graver or deeper new and tumultuous fine unselfish feeble or defective potent and profound keen and pleasant new, exclusive holiest and deepest bitter and maddening single unselfish wild and insurgent manifest deep imaginative or ideal vague but delicious lofty lyrical intense idealistic high complex elizabethan poetical anti-individual anti-social and anti-individual joyous normal true and keen new and longed-for extraordinary and tumultuous obvious deep fierce and primitive unexpectedly profound realistic tragic deep and harrowing same uplifting true and irresistible simple, uncontrollable impassioned and terrible by--er--er--parental strong and uncontrolled unworthy untamed silent, inexpressible strange and sharp sudden, responsive momentarily free exciting grateful specific musical truly bucolic pure, unbiased sorrowful or joyful painful or agreeable stern, unchanging strong, complex simple and intimate strong primal well-nigh noblest further vivid slightest sympathetic powerful and masculine delicious sensuous passionate and uncontrollable solemn and pure profound, unconquerable gentle, divine traditional and religious superficial erotic vague violent deep or passionate proper annual terrible and ungovernable curious maternal desperately sincere other definable keen and delicious lawful professional least inner real and profoundly significant singular and indefinable contagious religious indescribable but pleasing greater aesthetic powerful and painful perfectly specific passionate tragical powerful interior secondary and personal exciting vehement curious and familiar obviously strange unpleasant aesthetic luxurious artistic slight painful swift and ardent genuine and universal evidently violent powerful and singular mystic ontological evident and strong fiery and terrible extreme and engrossing solemn and high ready boyish painful and indignant natural and passionate violent or deep genuine overwhelming deepest and most joyous same risible braver and purely unselfish fancy and vehement swiftly exalted immediate, unique unique independent immediate, intrinsic joyful or painful genuine daring evident and unquiet own unfashionable intangible and elementary peculiar, remorseful delicious and painful strong, bashful undue human vague, exalted uncontrolled, unbalanced strong responsive indiscriminate maternal juristically important straightforward unmistakable serious, triumphant strong and painful keen and deep much amiable sudden and secret strong and unusual also stronger strong and unpleasant sudden and undue strange, unforeseen wild, irrepressible supremely unselfish intense, violent new, intoxicating mysterious and intimate strong and real common or collective icy, black strange and tragical sad, delicious new or extraordinary absolutely irrepressible weak and feminine comparable human profound and terrible other identifiable new, violent simple, steady tremendous, overpowering essential educational such uplifting previous grave other unknowable raw, terrible strong and convulsive strong, unspoken raw, clean mighty, enigmatic almost outmoded intense and all-pervading fresh and glad warm and irresistible sudden or strong strongest and most genuine strong, physical strange, unconquerable familiar and delicious such theistic delicate and poetic powerful and dominant overwhelming, passionate subtle and thrilling new, indefinable high and ecstatic personal or dramatic almost fanciful profound and dangerous deep, overpowering hot and high mere delicious strictly lyric startlingly strong always abstract generous and passionate delicious childish vivid and definite profoundly solemn violent artistic dark, nameless new overpowering violent and strange deep and joyful deep, poignant strongly sentimental single intelligible usually mental involuntary sympathetic corresponding sensitive tense, restless passionate and perverse spontaneous, irresistible pure youthful vain, fleeting late anxious grave and honorable sudden and sorrowful new tumultuous chief essential exquisitely serene true and spontaneous keen and natural wide and wistful high and mystic pure ecstatic slight and common primordial sexual almost sincere single sublime apparently religious simple deep immense, irresistible passionate physical protective maternal distinctly pleasurable unique aesthetic pure idealistic simple and deep distressed and indignant pure, buoyant other recognizable new and overpowering wholly inexplicable much negative bitter, violent intense sympathetic ever strange soft and fond cloying sweet slight and sudden much intense little evident much commoner late painful strongest human darker, murkier less nor more much overwrought tangible, tactile thick cloying delicate and voluptuous honest, naked genuine extreme tight uncomfortable later painful unlovely human hot, needy different, deeper new, incomprehensible powerful, unfamiliar genuine strong unworthy, contemptible pure, single strong, destructive reactional little irrational deep unsuspected intensely pleasurable same gratifying sudden and sincere altogether alcoholic pure, visceral brief, unwelcome primordial, primitive strongest and most persistent strange pained totally reasonable genuinely violent unfathomably strange petty and jealous leftover positive brief, mild usually pleasurable cold, petrified surprisingly genuine surprisingly durable much unbearable enough collective tremendous, pent-up immortal and imperishable harsh and acrid former deep vivid and agreeable more self-righteous almost hebraic unconscious sexual maternal and sexual little articulate vivid and keen whole generous vehement and convulsive genuine, generous pure inhuman specific artistic subtly powerful singular female swift and facile disinterested moral impetuous and uncontrollable strange poignant deep and irresistible inspiring religious morbid personal deep, reluctant personal and momentary vague aesthetic new, overwhelming wholly mental usual ornithological pleasurable mental sad but sweet vague and oppressive thrilling and passionate utterly repulsive feigned excessive vague but very real new and stern absurd and painful sudden tremulous less well-regulated prim�val human late strong delicately intellectual deep inarticulate perfectly simple and straightforward mystic and poetic silent but deep mere glad bigger, deeper deep and unusual merely mystical new and gentler sudden pitiful corresponding psychic sincere and individual ritual and sensuous passionate and sincere intense and permanent secret and overwhelming other, sweeter deepest and most grateful frank and graceful painful but sweet exquisitely pleasurable distinctive tragic single improper deep but soft great or generous refined aesthetic stronger and warmer strong violent internal invisible pure cosmic sudden and pleasing curious complex deep and natural eager new much naked new delightful sexual and religious mere positive sheer savage other troubling strong negative bitter, painful highest formal beautiful childish wild, intoxicating least criminal secret and strong much heartfelt seemingly genuine simple, raw merely impulsive strange, difficult simple and basic stronger, deeper spontaneous individual intense and curious original visual harsh or cruel old vibrant fine and genuine such high-strung fervent and exalted deepest and profoundest divine and wonderful strong and definite honest religious intense and thrilling specifically artistic sudden, unpremeditated real, present deep inexpressible genial, sympathetic breathless, intense much pleasurable deep and great deep and rare strong momentary peculiarly teutonic empty, white holiest and most sacred mere fruitless deepest and most painful strange and joyous slight new single vague soft and pure unexpected and involuntary subjective personal pent-up pleasurable or painful other overwhelming passionate sexual genuine, real deep and sweet big, sad hostile and aggressive dim and nebulous same impulsive strange and deep much unusual pleasurable deep and painful such panicky vague, unsettling fierce, brilliant odd, unidentifiable pure, uncontrollable foolish, maudlin deep, frightening good, raw silent but visible raw, brutal fundamental, primal gentle and sweet such heartbreaking inner strong

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Words to Describe emotion

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "emotion" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "emotion" are: full but soft, growingly unrestrained, frantic, visible, poignant, terrible, and noble, rare. There are 995 other words to describe emotion listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe emotion 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, "emotion" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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