Describing Wordsfor Emotions

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Here are some adjectives for emotions: full but soft, growingly unrestrained, corrosive, dirty, frantic, visible, insidiously negative, poignant, terrible, opposite and powerful, luxurious sterile, noble, rare, laudable, maternal, wild, indefinable, greatest impersonal, different and far deeper, visible and troubled, other lukewarm, strange and intolerable, unutterably strange and intolerable, faint, unavoidable, acute or vehement, sudden and perplexing, faintest native, powerful vague, terrible explicit, contradictory wild, raw pent-up, delicate and abstract, cool, numbing, popular conventional, weak and debilitating, sweetest and most ineffable. You can get the definitions of these emotions adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to emotions (and find more here).

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Words to Describe emotions

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

full but soft growingly unrestrained corrosive, dirty frantic, visible insidiously negative poignant, terrible opposite and powerful luxurious sterile noble, rare laudable, maternal wild, indefinable greatest impersonal different and far deeper visible and troubled other lukewarm strange and intolerable unutterably strange and intolerable faint, unavoidable acute or vehement sudden and perplexing faintest native powerful vague terrible explicit contradictory wild
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raw pent-up delicate and abstract cool, numbing popular conventional weak and debilitating sweetest and most ineffable hopeless one-sided delightful and diabolical ragged unreadable elemental instinctive slightest palpable tragic mysterious mute and reverential vague and sweet common but ineffable loving reverential other, acute much sickening intense, unsettling identical sloppy least controllable calm but inner genuine primitive powerful and unresolved basic bestial deep-seated, unplumbed ><p>tidal closest or strongest greater unnameable extreme or inappropriate grateful and painful secret illogical painfully joyous primally sharp unforeseen and involuntary erotic and sentimental quite mannered disturbing romantic great or deep various inconvenient reflective, passive separate painful 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 great and pleasurable deep joyous screwball and chaotic bashfully profound facile and generous strong, unnamed less permissible furcotal stupendous and national powerful, undefined freely natural dark and self-defeating big overwhelming queer bittersweet tremendously important and exciting singularly passionate impassive, raw strong or sudden pervertedly destructive contemplative and disinterested actively negative meanly sexual stronger public-spirited sudden, deep and tragic sweet ashamed vital or noble irregular and even vicious faint sexual voluptuous sexual warm, pagan strong but undefined visible and deep perplexed and various poverty-stricken, false various and intense inflamed religious social or affectionate ardent, devout imply incipient intimate and inscrutable several pre-existing pleasing or profound corporayal sudden, much particular corporayal sombre and personal loud or disturbing new and profoundly disturbing your fragile husky and vibrant unused and ungoverned natural, reverential early impulsive high-strung or finely-spun hateful irresistible curiously opposite strong overpowering primitive or primary new parental genuine uninhibited scented, feral similar but entirely unpleasant volcanic, intense deeper and depressing intense and foreign predominant human angriest and most violent simply difficult terrible and joyful painful or simply difficult rebellious and absurd raw, pent-up profound and raw unclean human many and so profound hot, lustful unfamiliar and troubling strong, indecipherable older, deep-rooted unfamiliar powerful extravagantly perplexing extraneous and potentially dangerous self-centered, inactive ungovernable, overwhelming present and most intimate ecstatic and deep strange and enthralling unwelcome or unfashionable fuller, subtler frighteningly rare utmost heartfelt savage hysterical shameful, morbid unfamiliar, deep-seated generous imaginative human, collective subtle or unusual still collective boldest or finest small but still collective various and visible superficial and feigned extraordinary and disproportionate strongest resultant penetrating and disturbing particular or transient various and very strong painful and evident strong and very various strongly generous primitive, human pleasurable expansive terrible and overpowering solemn, overpowering deepest and most pleasurable apparently baseless morbid and normal extraordinary and apparently baseless deepest and most generous cosmic or epochal infinite, indistinct vague and powerful strong, sinful scientific and amatory lesser and physical powerful and diversified positive or affectionate peculiar or violent profound primitive vivid and noble human and gross single, synthetic vile or ridiculous past and genuine forth superficial true or feigned lesser and commonplace strong or peculiar extravagant and personal visible joyful violent, debilitating intense and wild darker and stormier single pleasurable tempestuous and overwhelming mystic and tranquil own post-prandial 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 softer human sometimes volatile stronger and darker recent and strong turbulent inner vague and painful unutterably strange pure and enchanting pure, feral assuredly human poignant and vivid meanwhile contradictory unexpected, intense sorrowful, bitter tiny, anxious subtle vague plumb human natural and primal fleeting but sharp hazy, difficult resolute and angry ritual and human still residual more containable many unmanageable common, intelligible aside unproductive condescending sympathetic new and far different slightest inadvertent undisciplined violent raw unbridled sure, strange curious incalculable dark violent quite different and unfathomable distinct, variegated explosive human overpowering and unaccustomed mighty calm own transient insecure, neurotic joltingly pained just disembodied insane, unaccountable nakedly clear crazy and debilitating intense, protective ridiculous anti-social noble and unspoken insidious and baffling noncommittal, genuine violently unpleasant strong, truthful strong and unfamiliar sudden, pent-up other illogical physically painful and painful warm, positive brutish, ungrateful increasingly softer irrational and indefinable appeared--oddly contradictory extreme and powerful dire and most exalted thick drunken customary dual unaccustomed and uncomfortable potent, thick bashful but uncontrollable braided, blended silvery, flawless greatly dissimilar mild or gentle definite and greatly dissimilar overwhelming, all-powerful undoubtedly poetical raw, fierce sensitive and most mysterious sexy, glorious simple and stronger weird, miserable impure and improper weird, unidentified merely pent-up heady, feral human, girlish thrilling and unexplainable unquestionably deep deep, thrilling and unexplainable unquestionably deep and recurrent tremendous and lofty rarest and strongest still delicious strange but yet pleasurable dreadful and still delicious sufficiently reverent affectionate and estimable exciting moral somewhat violent and commonplace exquisite evasive violent and commonplace different and impatient tame and essentially selfish graver secret undefined but intense violent but noble paltry and sinful ever diversified conscious pleasurable primeval and indivisible fine, impersonal intense and desirable ubiquitous spiritual extraordinarily intense and desirable strange, ashamed longer ready-made pure, unimpassioned basic and commonplace intense or mystical infantile incestuous extreme vivid forth voluptuous equally automatic awake sexual actual and ostensible still virginal and sensitive extreme and passionate repulsive or degrading extravagant and overpowering angry patriotic straightforward, unmistakable volitional and spontaneous strong and almost fearful beautiful and legitimate notable and evident easily irritable incessant and un-american natural and highly proper new, sudden and exquisite overpowering other almost cosmical especially insistent overwhelming penetrating sweet and fanciful sudden but ineffable secondary and somewhat literary much and too various unmistakable direct pure and uncontrolled visibly extraordinary stern or angry primitive, uncomplicated delicious, inexplicable grateful and tranquil silent voluptuous strange and premature violent but delicious sacred and soft strange idealistic unaccountable strong sweet and pleasurable slighted other intimately happy smaller, artistic expressive, uncontrollable such unexciting grand but calm violent common big extraordinary obviously tragic acute, intolerable fantastic, fleeting fruitful harmonious weird, delicate fervent and stern curiously unexplainable bitter and devastating unforeseen and incalculable intense, aggressive mutual and happy earlier impetuous nevertheless valuable and potential perpetchal valuable and potential voluminous silent involuntary annoying single unchanged proud and pleasurable pertinent dramatic slightest and fugitive poignant, unrecognizable practical vagrant unrestrained and candid sensual, fiery remote, mystical tumultuous and various deep or lofty disordered and confusing violent and irrepressible certain immoderate national or cosmic harrowing and awful deep and almost irrepressible intangible, inexpressible secondary and injurious unaccountable, engrossing grim and uncertain blended devotional altogether unwise quick transient fundamental and unconscious surprising confusing nice, prosaic uniquely religious ungovernable and vindictive strong, dim brave or angry cramped, pent-up inexpressible, grateful cognate and equally genuine multitudinous vague immature, untrustworthy religious, fundamental instructive and primitive unbroken, synthetic exciting stronger absurdly infantile elemental and familiar kindly joyful tremblingly delicious sad, alien new and world-shaking rousing strong natural and devout mysterious and almost fanciful noble, positive complex and often troublesome sympathetically universal wistful, fresh fancy humane pent-up popular further poignant old, vivid mature and terrible powerful, vague apparently incompatible and contradictory essential and strong idiot, human deep and indefinable menstruation, powerful largely hereditary and common strong and indescribable largely hereditary once momentous pleasant and indolent various and generally painful fleeting psychical vague and innocent uplifting, exalted tumultuous, weird powerful singular separate and even solitary joyful, modest forth contemplative unmistakably profound negative and low unnecessary and grotesque unnecessary, extravagant quite unnecessary and grotesque sympathetic or lofty utterly anti-social and anti-individual sundry unmasculine utterly anti-social strong or full normal and ideal unimaginably profound intense omnipresent fugitive feminine undue or foolish delicate and sincere strong and protracted real but intense morbid or sentimental intricate and composite impressive, penetrating incoherent and violent curiously grateful bitterly opposite violent and profound ardent and mystic unspoken, incomprehensible pleasant or solemn unfamiliar and wonderful untamed volcanic altruistic, impersonal peculiarly warm and generous dramatic or even moneymaking antagonistic but even angry slightest depressing sultry, ungoverned strong cynical highest and most hallowed legitimate and pleasurable self-confident or self-sacrificing clean and poetic stronger or softer free or unemployed richest exquisite deep and uncontrollable sensual or physical large poignant good and pleasurable profound or sublime new and equally strong haughty mad often abnormal abstract and aimless gaseous and indefinable heart-rending, silent slow and unresponsive rapt and reverential indefinable and yet precise extravagant and restless luxurious, sterile exuberant and sudden sad or fond faint nor fruitless pathetic, sad or fond powerful, strange natural, heathen indefinable, vague unaccountable and uncontrollable much and so incomprehensible overpowering and indefinable obscure and rare usually vital new ecstatic thereby powerful present and passionate joyous or even serene still present and passionate poor and personal proud, unhealthy gloomy, inspiring unknown and ineffable religious and martial awful pent-up whole, second-rate tempestuous, angry violent, swift involuntary and uncontrolled successive and constant strong and almost irrepressible suburban and unintellectual profoundest prophetic violent and opposite profound but erratic grateful, remorseful exalted or enthusiastic religious and ludicrous rarely deep innocent every-day poignant and profound passionate and disagreeable elemental direct evil or bitter primitive, vulgar uncontrolled religious painful and deep hyperbolic ethical recent intense richest or sweetest subtle and only half-expressed various and gregarious gentle and pleasurable convulsive, sweet immediately great fanciful and fine immediately great and painful happy and exuberant vague, transcendental refreshing vital violent and noble vital and undying distinctively legal higher, vital and undying startling but indefinable probable painful silent but tumultuous finest and most helpful vague, unjustifiable gentle and most stormy pleasurable and legitimate incredibly unimportant mere uncontrolled altruistic and moral form--general superficially certain due form--general compelling and formidable evident internal bad normal poignant unknown sacred, deep strong or persistent public, grateful and sweet heartfelt sad artificial and unbalanced fierce or passionate profound and distressing mysterious, inexpressible broad, primal unspoken poetical simpler, basic grave and almost solemn sterile, delicate sudden and very rare delicate and nameless vague irrepressible profoundest and purest venturesome and prodigal corresponding but indescribable violent, speechless exuberant erotic mutual, warm finer sympathetic bitterest and strongest instinctive, passional violent, unconquerable sweet and yet painful softer, feminine many and so violent true unerring urgent inexplicable sweeter and livelier exquisitely morbid tumultuous, irrepressible dim but strong incipient moral old, red-blooded beloved historic sarcastic or malignant deep and most private awake subtler true or artificial seemingly indefinable dormant generous disquieting and seemingly indefinable pre-eminently pleasurable pleasant moderate second-hand or spurious faint, unrecognized profound and exquisitely painful contradictory and tempestuous large and unspeakable sacred and beatific genuine loyal graceful and ardent altruism--social distinctly individual and independent turbulent and sensible fierce terrible merely mystical and allegorical petty fond definable human peculiar and most annoying bright ineffable other but satisfying conscious and obvious immaterial and delicate transient and commonplace thy altruistic least malignant secret spontaneous poignant and sincere delicate delightful subtle, extraordinary wondrously blissful lofty and abstract poignant unfathomable european deep voluptuous or lewd 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 various pleasurable just selfish strange, poignant proud and delightful nonpsychological late anxious potent unified downright human specially joyful lofty, pure new and godlike raw, unbridled new, overwhelming little indefinable exactly unknown strong favorable frail, rampant false tragic wild and unfamiliar much sloppy semispiritual actual deep pleasing and peaceful natural and transient strange, turbulent rather cosmic loving and brave characteristic aesthetic new, many dramatic or tragic mournful and noble lively internal devotional and penitential sad but quiet intense affectionate strongest and most intense powerful and protracted exciting religious subtle complex deepest and most personal strangely various genuine and respectable few feigned vehement and continual generous, irresistible warm grateful depressing and debilitating final, mysterious occasonal vivid and wild gentle and voluptuous vehement and turbulent vivid and violent deep primal last recognizable down violent such high-powered deep basic different and unfathomable strange inexpressible profound and exalted powerful and unusual colder, darker rapid, low powerful but vague mere noble natural and pious reckless and insane violent, joyous tragic or pathetic rapid and vivid wild and indescribable strong, ancient certain inconvenient such primeval cheap and facile absolute predictable turbulent, strong stronger, hotter ultimately destructive corrosive and dangerous entical sloppy unpredictable hormonal other uncomplicated genuine deep unwanted and confusing onditionally honest genuine and unselfish mildly visible real, feverish deep primordial usual shallow warmer and purely mundane often uncontrolled bloody strong overpowering contradictory deep, unreasonable explosive and ambivalent least dependable fragile, youthful unbridled and unchecked intense, complex sheer negative normally rock-hard strong, unidentifiable strange half-understood whole, mortal frighteningly strong somewhat bogus away strong delicious and somewhat bogus individual feminine painful and pleasurable distinctive, uncommon deep unreadable strong but unreadable unwelcome and unattractive other, unwanted tempestuous romantic pleasant and pleasurable unnecessarily excessive increasingly human significant reptilian equally tangled raw panicky other, turbulent powerful but unspecified extreme contradictory pointless, invalid would-be runaway simple, finite powerful but unfocused usual short-range remotely human much hysterical tely human necessarily depressing depressing and useless painful and painful unfamiliar disturbing mutual painful unclear, irresistible least, intense strong and sometimes contradictory particularly reasonable equal, opposite intense, religious powerful, confusing evident single calm runaway strong and pleasurable baffling and harrowing low sombre turbulent and unpleasant urgent, shocking violently irrational terrifyingly strong correspondingly primeval new and unstable elemental survival totally destructive and negative heavy-duty civilized deeply knotted raw, bestial pure, dark usually negative appeal and raw uncontrolled, unbalanced grubby bourgeois thrilling awful hostile and amorous obvious strange warm, pleasurable fragile transitory sudden, striking physical and adventurous wasteful, sentimental }purely self-consuming delicately tangled physi}{cal darker, harsher mere physi}{cal abruptly watery raw, unchecked stormy subjective discordant and unfamiliar useless, angry universally understandable darkest and most sensual con­ceal discordantly vibrant largely unfathomable alive poignant notoriously erratic balanced, controllable true, panicky natural but unworthy conscious, raw blinding and numbing shallow, washed-out back hateful true, unchecked rudimentary, nasty truly uncontrolled completely confident and serene uncharacteristic proprietorial inexpressible teenage strong and heartfelt lower, heavy chaotic red other, malicious new and almost inexpressible strong, turbulent painful, shocking and horrible agonizing, unresolved intense, unspoken calm or heroic complex canine basic strong raw, intimate enormous teenage raw, messy raw, explosive strongest and cleanest raw, palpable blinding extreme superficial and condescending basic and elemental toxic human vivid and superb vile, virulent sufficiently overwhelming exterior, strong appropriate ethical uglier and uglier sudden primitive clumsy, mindless deep or strong monstrous, astronomical deep unchanging thrilling and sublime crystal soft tumultuous and contradictory real or spiritual odious and violent violent and overwhelming

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Words to Describe emotions

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "emotions" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "emotions" are: full but soft, growingly unrestrained, corrosive, dirty, frantic, visible, and insidiously negative. There are 992 other words to describe emotions listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe emotions 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, "emotions" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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