Describing Wordsfor Expression

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Here are some adjectives for expression: eternal cheerful, distinctly insulting, seemingly irreverent, utterly uncompromising, sulky stubborn, annoying, passive, politely courteous, halfway cheerful, extremely quizzical, faintest and simplest, incomprehensible noisy, anxious rapt, peculiar, pathetic, inscrutable and odd, diplomatically apologetic, briefly honest, strangely voluptuous, familiar unreadable, serene, smug, bland but implacable, amazingly rational, carefully contrite, curiously avid, suddenly implacable, helpful intelligent, unpleasantly sinister, sweet and rather effeminate, clearly sardonic, vibrant and alert, rapt, misty-eyed. You can get the definitions of these expression adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to expression (and find more here).

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Words to Describe expression

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

eternal cheerful distinctly insulting seemingly irreverent utterly uncompromising sulky stubborn annoying, passive politely courteous halfway cheerful extremely quizzical faintest and simplest incomprehensible noisy anxious rapt peculiar, pathetic inscrutable and odd diplomatically apologetic briefly honest strangely voluptuous familiar unreadable serene, smug bland but implacable amazingly rational carefully contrite curiously avid suddenly implacable helpful intelligent
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unpleasantly sinister sweet and rather effeminate clearly sardonic vibrant and alert rapt, misty-eyed terribly fiendish disturbingly serene perpetually fierce queer, dangerous wary and disapproving unusually serious and compassionate brilliant and sometimes dazzling discouragingly wide-awake strangely frightful sanctimoniously sober particular smug bleakly cynical stiff, blank keen and innocently helpful completely impassive final and completely individual innocently helpful troublesome but necessary stupidly happy dusky, contorted acutely thoughtful grim but eager blandly respectful and attentive blandly respectful dazed, vacant foolish, dazed suitably dour less disdainful completely serene blank engrossed impassioned and heroic habitually passive innocent and unconcerned striking, fragrant intense and distant indefinable, faint massively perplexed disdainful, uncompromising wide-eyed, manic sublime proverbial vacant mute comically stubborn properly blank blandly smug welcome and totally unexpected peculiar bland geriatrically good-natured bemused and geriatrically good-natured exceedingly sensual satirical and resolute observant, sarcastic indulgent and protective troubled and absent phenomenally grotesque ominously neutral loving sexual pleasant vague solemn, distant strangely quizzical inquiring and attentive habitually sour innocent and slightly anxious attentive, childlike different pained blank stiff merest trifling hideously alien unnervingly perceptive disconcertingly serene and thoughtful disconcertingly serene intense, inward-looking bland and impassive funny faraway characteristic condescending vivid alert wry and sardonic energetic and human angry and unpleasant rather soft and moody idiomatic and unsophisticated grotesque and sardonic sternly painful vigorous but cold merest geographic normally solemn subtle, subtle common proverbial unusually fresh and sunny eager past brilliant past wicked and fierce uniformly dazed helpless, blank cheerfully inconclusive interested and wistful pleasing but sometimes sullen horrid and ferocious customary benign appealing, helpless tense, far-away disconcertingly shrewd wispy, distant surprisingly predatory piously modest supercilious, self-important offensively civilized final and most complete habitually hard properly somber permanently sullen intense, timeless fiendish and terrifying guileless, anticipatory bemused, teasing maddeningly impassive studiously vacant coolly decorous non-political, non-topical sour, unbelieving usual, affable slyly humorous dull, haughty extraordinary and keen blank and dazed helpless and inevitable audible eloquent entirely wise and sympathetic natural wide-eyed cautious and almost hostile wise, poetical blank, sweet polite, blank faintly bilious sympathetically distressed serious and sympathetically distressed serene and good-humored timid, piteous gloriously bemused especially winsome oddly formidable same, blank strangely sad and anxious dreamy, rapt proud and somewhat sarcastic careful and yet important much tautological sincere and exact sad but not angry sweet and almost innocent definite and piquant peculiar but not unkind resolute and ironical imperious and ironical animated and thoughtful truly characteristic and vigorous [_colloquial general substantive lackadiasical ordinarily benign ordinarily benign and cheerful peculiar dumb mere inadequate former unperturbed black, stern intelligent and mournful impassive and judicial grave, somber perpetually mild normally sardonic deceptively blank carefully blank sober, wistful doubly insincere unfortunately sensitive appropriate disgruntled solemn and dissatisfied properly solemn queer, introspective comically alert deceptively intelligent venerable galactic tolerably bland dangerously cheerful horribly thoughtful proper dour sufficiently idiomatic familiar, covetous utterly crestfallen and ferocious crestfallen and ferocious vigorous and rather ironical individual and almost haughty curiously inquisitive girlish and even infantile fiendish and merciless utterly fiendish and merciless slightly dissatisfied damned nautical remarkably noble and austere urgent and hopeful sad, woebegone sudden ashamed foolishly rapt totally pathetic careless, commercial ingly unreadable carefully attentive haughty and dubious slightly blank calmer, thoughtful sad respectful listless and miserable respectful, sincere deliberately scornful strange, meaningful eternally troubled fluent and happy nonviolent emotional electronic free self-confident and refined courteous but sad tranquil and impenetrable malevolent and caustic stonily severe shrewd and respectful angrily inquisitive restless and malign peculiarly restless and malign dissatisfied and inquiring serious impassioned resolute and coldly cruel faraway dreamy melodramatically gentle already avuncular deliberately quaint disapproving and hostile superlatively supercilious exceedingly sheepish uncommon proverbial important and secretive ominous and penetrating somewhat crafty carelessly serene national declamatory restless, wistful now stern and menacing instinctive facial irate, undaunted well-known obstinate broad and concrete unsettled, irregular unwarranted and unjust involuntarily natural common indeterminate complete and spontaneous grave, careworn direct, dramatic cunning, hard majestic and charming indefinably reckless somewhat uneasy and timid horrible meditative heavy broken-down vivacious and radiant peculiarly vivacious and radiant peculiarly vivacious calm, clear and cheerful indescribably mischievous keen, covetous dissatisfied satirical resolute and often scornful grand impulsive loud or rude wide-open, childish absent, pained often vehement sharp and almost severe singularly meek and charitable habitually severe overly innocent welcome and charming blissfully simple perpetually sad faintly pained serene, affectionate slightly pained favorite and frequent same perplexed intense and merciless facial and vocal mild or vague appropriately serious aloof, deadpan normal, dour bold, ferocious studious and impractical permanently bleary odd, avid morbid hateful distant, implacable loose and spontaneous inner and inaudible metaphysically strange usually careworn open, mild dreamy fond faintly thoughtful utterly disdainful cheerful and ingratiating peculiar furtive tense and enigmatical innocent, tense and enigmatical coldly sullen and morose coldly sullen gloomy and dazed vacant, torpid sombre, stern inexorably stern cool inscrutable slack, vacant rapt, faraway harsh, oblique rigid, fanatical individual and wholesome forlorn, suspicious odd and comical additionally repulsive inquisitive and perplexed childishly simple and happy vindictive and defiant exceedingly vindictive prying and yet benevolent dubious, disapproving hopeless and woebegone sincerely grave true, insightful frightening and fierce meek and guilty curiously unreadable strangely bemused demurely regal helpless and scatterbrained characteristic jaded hearty and sturdy fleeting, cunning deceptively demure completely solemn deceptively wistful dreamy, dazed unreadable alien infuriatingly tranquil amiable, vacant vacant, amiable wonderfully good and life-like cruelly empty invariable unreadable uneasy, contemptuous ambiguous or even negative perpetual sour haggard but hopeful mockingly impatient horrible and inappropriate non-topical otherwise smug carefully impassive peculiarly blank strangely sad and human odd, unreadable vivacious and energetic openly ardent suddenly hopeful somehow sour thin and somehow sour malignant, diabolical faintly insulting amiably absent-minded fiercely exuberant vaguely defiant exquisitely bland guilty, sheepish thoughtfully attentive gently innocuous incongruously grim inscrutable but pleasant shuttered, disinterested despairing, empty general congratulatory taut, unbelieving painfully tactful wide-eyed and slightly shell-shocked rapt, angelic still sour and skeptical sensitive, communicative grim and evil absolutely angelic bold or indelicate disagreeable, bilious well-known proverbial agreeable and animated anxious and business-like daring and evil affectionate, expectant heavy, befogged grave and perplexed exquisite past hasty contemptuous ridiculously amiable natural animated condensed, epigrammatic swiftest and most direct richer musical particularly grave and dull curious doubtful unconscious abstracted despairing, haggard serious, far-away subsequent dynamic fierce and even savage occasional but not frequent sinister and ferocious clear and imaginative perfectly cool and quiet solemn, uneasy extremely wary and cunning old paradoxical impatient or petulant habitually evil somewhat severe and sad careless, sarcastic poetic or emotional helplessly miserable voluntary, clear and precise hard gloomy curious rapt benign, calm benevolent and agreeable material and imaginative spiritual and precocious peculiarly spiritual and precocious peculiarly spiritual grave and even careful cheerful and even cordial heavy, vacuous habitually sad usually haggard direct and unconventional central and elementary racy or picturesque natural or significant remarkably figurative stern and somewhat dissatisfied remarkably independent and proud keen, fiendish sanitary and virtuous brief but improper figurative or inexact inexact or figurative insipid and ignoble emphatic and clear-cut formal, emphatic and clear-cut fatal and ominous subtle or crafty breathless, relentless and insatiable relentless and insatiable sedate or severe incomplete and symbolic listless, careworn strange malicious restless and rather fierce petulant, suspicious free and stinging highest and most adequate distinct and very pathetic prevalent facial peculiarly playful benign jovian quietly exalted disagreeably sarcastic abstracted and intense peculiarly abstracted and intense common and senseless somber ironic formal and somewhat arrogant felicitous and musical correct but certainly recondite certainly recondite utterly impassible wider vicarious correct oral tremulous, sorrowful shorter, commoner fitting and permanent inadequate visible crowning insolent loose, personal terse and musical gloriously blank mute, haggard fullest and fiercest uncommon or fantastic penetrating and yet inscrutable cunning, sinister sarcastic and cold ever blank straight and ever blank entirely sophisticated rapt adenoidal tame dutch open-mouthed, adenoidal artless good-humored intense and even severe haughty, impetuous quizzically discrete equably serious vivid, adventurous radiant and lucid conscientiously stupid quite manifest slight but quite manifest doubtful and somewhat pained beautifully pious already anxious carefully bland usual glum stolid, stubborn much bemused safe or honest sometimes dazzling curiously serene absent and thoughtful dreamy, vacant helpless appealing thoughtful, somber thoughtful, solemn normally smug honestly perplexed cold feral openly lustful entirely warm intense, resolute brief natural vast symmetrical completely deadpan simple facial ridiculously diminutive odd, introspective suddenly speculative cool and remote ingly dubious ingly human singularly resolute coldly menacing faintly quizzical usually sympathetic grim and weary gentle dumb vaguely interested permanently apprehensive wistfully regal peculiarly beautiful and gentle alarmingly human proudly grim normal facial absolutely unreadable pure, sanctified gentle, beatific imperfect but glorious previous, severe cadaverous and dead sober, professional habitually sunny permanently petulant horrifying gleeful little things-facial things-facial extremely careless and frivolous submissive, uninterested mighty descriptive habitual grim continual sour amiable obstinate bleak, impassive numb, dull normally humorous common but excellent intentionally blank fleeting, potent competent no-nonsense agreeable and whimsical highly agreeable and whimsical placid and sweet considerable pantomimic maudlin sleepy harsh and black coarse, despicable blank and motionless cheerful and even jovial still soft and ashamed gentle, benign theatrically grim calm, unreadable crooked, thin-lipped distinctly similar arrogant, condescending soothingly calm familiar, fierce often inattentive profoundly blank last or highest slightly wry habitually dour stern but thoughtful tangible, undeniable obscene, guttural myopic, wistful bland childlike superficially benign maddening, doleful fine wide-eyed deceitful and most disagreeable usually cold and disdainful best winsome blank, careful bland, curious placid and expectant still bemused oddly pained fetchingly helpless familiar expressionless reasonable and frank mock severe monotonous facial newly smug long and introspective infuriatingly sappy iously sober same, impassive noncommittal but interested final, definite distinctly radiant cat-that-ate-the-cardinal ineffable and virgin briefly pained cordial, guileless sincerely hedonistic humorously helpless tembly portentous swift intelligent hard and self-assured comically lecherous comically crestfallen habitual sleepy eager, avid graver and somewhat weary strange clever grave, complex icy ageless perfectly serious and sympathetic contradictory placid stiff but impenetrable mildly bemused particularly blank lofty facial ridiculously blissful decently sorrowful merely suave and courteous merely suave calm and slightly somnolent blandly noncommital suitably expectant sublimely serene completely blank and unbelieving customary severe peculiarly smug customary facial decidedly congenial calm and self-righteous typical reptilian mincingly haughty needless and awkward watchful, perceptive habitual satirical rather tight and unpleasant tough and unpleasant outwardly neutral fragile, fleeting confidently serene equally disapproving guardedly neutral acute definitive distressed, moonlit odd, sober weird glaring clean, energetic technical and figurative sudden, frightful characteristically absent impenetrably bland politely blank general sunny bright, far-away rapt, far-away nearly dazed bitter relentless strangely idiotic curiously haggard gentle and rather sad ashamed or abashed innocent or unconscious sly abrupt elemental vocal piously ghoulish mild, humble terrible sterile thoughtful and serene hearty, benignant emblematical or allegorical equivocal facial general angry extremely piteous earliest and almost sole nervous, racy peculiarly soft and grave jocular and cheerful sombre, stolid pained, careworn sarcastic, odd healthiest or best watchful and troubled vacant, stupid single acrimonious implacable, ferocious troubled and somewhat fierce grave and profoundly philosophical passionate or humorous severe and sad animal, sinister pithy but characteristic anxious, indeterminate sober, energetic fitting musical fearless, rapt clearest lyrical comic fierce remarkably soft and gentle singular wistful mature, masterful candid and virtuous shy, haunting certainly animated certainly animated and intelligent depressed facial sullen facial vital, positive legitimate and creative traditional, competitive frankly innocent quite blissful solemn, placid intensely unconscious proper symbolic doubtful, ambiguous impertinent, contemptuous frivolous or improper somewhat pained uneasy and apprehensive austere, monumental entirely direct and spontaneous concise and picturesque calm undaunted voracious and hungry forth strong and vehement peculiar and very significant austere and sinister furtive, prying unconsciously radiant quaintly hopeful singularly merry piquant, merry intense, keen inquisitive, disagreeable intense and individual hopeless dazed external vocal awful murderous audacious, scornful primitive and most simple animated and rather satirical almost miserable keen animated tranquil sweet unequivocal symbolic inimitably ludicrous boisterous open sorrowful and dreamy peculiarly sorrowful and dreamy voluntary and almost overwhelming chaste and fanciful strangely chaste and fanciful strangely chaste unsually attentive loyal and proportionate distressing, careworn thoroughly pedagogical pedagogical and paternal thoroughly pedagogical and paternal quite inartificial healthy and quite inartificial acceptable idealistic naughty and odious common danish abnormally intelligent sarcastic, humorous shortest and most familiar general and most accurate favorite figurative excessively egotistical piquant, wide-awake coarse and animal natural and most complete powerful but literally accurate curious sinister singular, doubtful vacant and stupid sad and placid timidly bold stony, blank intensely youthful dazed facial thoughtful facial indefinite and stupid peculiarly happy and condensed happy and condensed universal architectural habitually lackadaisical dreamy, radiant true turgid fond but singular proper and comprehensive uncertain, unhappy paternal and benevolent altogether interested startling and somewhat sinister vague, cunning intellectual and sedate immediate feverish quietly quizzical suddenly vigilant wooden and gross old prefatorial truthful exterior wholly appealing wickedly fascinating generally mild and peaceful genuine symbolic remarkably sad instinctive and irrepressible timid and abject frank but rather haughty harsh and insolent mild, ineffable strange and crafty curious, rapt rather pompous and pedantic truer poetical common or pithy studiously unconscious severe and self-reliant curious and penetrating frightful and scornful merry and shrewd biblical pithy listless, impersonal habitual unruffled oddly hypocritical benignly spiritual wild far-away sweetly wan wary, defensive tolerably genial expectant and gleeful harsh and obstinate quizzical, whimsical single analytical benignant, paternal far-off, sad sinister and sarcastic meek, serious equally ungracious linear and musical merely pronominal verbal and merely pronominal characteristic and vigorous unnatural, ruthless nicely blended awful, past wistful far-away cheery and sunny poetical and metaphorical important symbolical comically self-sacrificing spontaneous poetic energetic and picturesque placid, grave exceedingly hopeless decidedly sad and meek decidedly sad sad and meek ardent, cruel placid and mature elastic, indefinite universal and boundless certainly indignant inanely amatory thoughtful, rapt virtuously severe impudent audacious stupid tipsy unusually serene and peaceful faithful but temporary corresponding energetical elegant or concise fully adequate and exhaustive pure, adequate perfectly accurate and fitting immortally poignant exquisitely idiomatic deepest and last simply observant startling musical ready and felicitous cruel, cut-throat continuous providential simplest and most personal loose and tropical handsome and metrical full and excessive oft-repeated meaningless scholastic and ambiguous indefinite and metaphorical meaningless metaphorical correct or accurate monumental and artistic genuine inquisitorial condensed and perfect strange but very sweet hard characteristic malign, evil apt typical voluntary or deliberate articulate dogmatic soft, saddened severe and somewhat caustic noble and somewhat sad slightly allegorical good-humored, quiet languorous and sleepy sour, anxious wholly rapacious secret, ironical outward official ardent and lucky sublime contemplative low figurative vague and thoughtful old-time noble bright and yet curious queer, desolate odd clever fine, curious still benevolent

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Words to Describe expression

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "expression" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "expression" are: eternal cheerful, distinctly insulting, seemingly irreverent, utterly uncompromising, and sulky stubborn. There are 995 other words to describe expression listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe expression 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, "expression" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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