Describing Words
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blue eyes,
woman
Here are some adjectives for feelings. You can get the definitions of these adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to feelings (and find more here).
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Words to Describe feelings
Below is a list of describing words for feelings. 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 feelings:
primitive and noble darker animal normal, generalized uneasy and ambivalent morose, unkind pretentiously artistic general and diverse paternal human largely subconscious diverse and largely subconscious vague, contradictory unnecessary bad early resentful suddenly cloudy and turbulent dreamy and incoherent jealous, wild unconscious favorable angry and guilty deadliest and heaviest vague and similar peaceful and soft bad, noble and ignoble powerful superstitious sad and discontented painful and affectionate same, powerful such oppressed back virtuous complex, ambiguous unusual but very powerful austere and happy noblest traditional implicitly contradictory personal and self-conscious merely personal and self-conscious slavish asiatic eerily vivid more complex and ambiguous queer squirmy edgy, moody intense or negative basic and rudimentary deep and rather stubborn past unresolved larger, genuine treacherously ambiguous irrationally equivocal strongest and angriest also rheumatic sublime and happy south humane kinder selfish fervent and chivalrous agreeable or triumphant selfish and hateful exciting angry personal or parental nursing--sexual indefinite bad great inaudible own touchy unregulated social unbroken and higher woeful, desolate immediate and dominant raw negative best and genuine cynical and congratulatory precious, secret different sensuous milder or warmer keen and ungovernable benign and benevolent dreadfully rebellious dismal and revolting nasty creepy grander moral genial and festive rather ambivalent your subjective childish, selfish definite, powerful known--natural little known--natural superstitious creepy darkly superstitious fine, innocent secret unacknowledged obscure heroic angry and exasperated exciting, profound sad, sentimental hot self-consuming giddy and absolutely foolish terribly ambivalent strong illogical finest explicit rusty higher queer and uncommon insane, violent cruel or brutal well-nigh paternal worthy feminine unhappy and morose coarse and fine-grained depraved and impure awe-inspiring and respectful nice authorial more britannic exciting gloomy childish light-hearted strongest and most inveterate sufficiently grateful domestic and amorous sombre and mournful resentful and malicious chiefly obscure idle but unpleasant languid, ordinary vague, feeble religious, sympathetic hostile or resentful sweet but painful simpler and deeper painful but rather pleasurable possibly faithful indeed grateful feverish and delicate amiable and sacred warm poetical peculiarly combative hostile and disloyal selfish and bitter theological or personal pleasurable and grateful separate instinctive grave or deep strongest and most passionate irrevocable and hopeless horrible and extreme hostile and affectionate vindictive and contemptuous higher and kinder troublesomely impulsive unselfish or sympathetic other repugnant national, humanitarian hostile and anxious vague, pent-up general valiant peculiar, definite ever-changing and fleeting intense and very acute wrathful and angry generous and happy former uncomfortable naturally poetical senseless such away destructive incongruous and impatient interior and deeper professional and human natural selfish abnormally intense suddenly cloudy such deeper deep sinister last remorseful sympathetic heathen unexpected, uncontrollable elegiac idyllic smarmy and seductive weary and numb absurd, ancient tired, weary and numb definitely paternal utterly incomparable more-or-less identical intense, terror-stricken somewhat furious famil\-ial tired�unusual old and tired�unusual deeply nostalgic deeply ambivalent anti-development popular nationalist extremely schizoid so-called odd sometimes stubborn dangerously mushy shockingly intense noble and personal such proprietorial blind, unaccountable unattractive and destructive warm, gushy strange, subjective deep-rooted democratic inappropriate such huge, contradictory decidedly ambivalent often ambivalent primitive, ferocious dizzying, horrible contradictory, delicious stronger or warmer national but religious similar pleasurable infinitely livelier good or natural quick and high-toned unpleasant, ungracious hazy, stealthy bloodthirsty or ferocious inward rebellious dormant benevolent refined and altruistic seemingly instinctive and unalterable already adverse laudable but commonplace primal, inner kindest and most condescending irritable and sinful purely religious and mystical rousing aesthetic unobtrusive religious violent and abiding natural or inborn sore, jealous uneasy, remorseful previous unaccountable religious or humane corrupt, unspiritual dormant devotional vague and elementary wholesome, sexual strong homosexual womanly natural faint dizzy spanish marital loving and guileless lively patriotic exciting hard amiable but unenlightened capital, popular particularly bland and expansive pedigrees--national intensive painful individual impulsive optical and muscular constant somatic altruistic and humane absent and thy proud and almost boastful tenderly reverential mock and artificial grateful and liberal epiperipheral dominant parental ominously restless hostile or inimical benign elementary divine and new vile and lower strong and undisciplined degraded and irreverent artless and masterful originally pious higher and refined spiritually comfortable insubordinate and angry vaguely reverential particular fugitive own condemnatory hostile and combative many sensuous native querulous purest and most delicious best and most reverential easily overwrought deep and very strong buoyant, hilarious quite pure and unselfish deeper esthetic finer traditional spontaneous and fundamental strong and primal wrong and miserable still quick and warm higher devotional directly opposite or antagonistic fancy, generous anti-papal and anti-sacerdotal holiest and most religious warm but very exclusive dark and harsh indescribably pleasant and joyous indescribably pleasant naturally unsophisticated same uncordial similarly effective heavy bitter jealous and disdainful abstruse but grateful imaginary, bitter strongest and most painful purest and most benevolent vivid muscular more prosaical extravagantly vehement present and transient sympathetic and moral heroic or delicate generous, heroic or delicate next emotional innermost and best rusty better tense and pent-up secret current wrong, angry higher and bitter selfish ignoble almost uneasy festive and hospitable self-important and haughty general or diverse rancorous, bitter deepest and most exuberant unpleasant or evil spare german warm and humane elementary, savage many, exciting liveliest devotional primitive simian predatory, envious and ferocious exterior, unfavorable natural elementary vital and systemic startling, contradictory indefinite, impersonal out-of-the-way masculine pleasant or amiable rudimentary and most general milky human thoroughly liberal and generous indeterminate, poetic dim divine transient inner usually chivalrous sadly unchristian devout or reverent agreeable sensual obvious, human humane and warm-hearted vivid dynastic numb, unaccountable miserable numb parental and sympathetic parental and sympathetical constant animal shadowy, inexpressible bitter and depressed wider, quieter prodigious heroic impassioned personal contemptible other querulous but delightful funny cold other and vastly different wrong and unkind holiest and deepest respective nationalist sorrowful and depressing unsatisfied domestic best, inherent coy and girlish new or ardent frigid and hostile forth superb bitter and anxious so-called sensuous so-called paternal primary sensuous personal, fiendish inconveniently deep gloomy and undecided curious and often uncomfortable rancorous or vindictive animal, social esthetic and religious pleasingly fearful naturally opposite political and fraternal noble but untamed unkind private nicer human strong but equally amiable sensitive, creepy affectionate and devotional slightly analogous foolish and antiquated rebellious and scornful impassioned and tumultuous natural antagonistic unpleasant, oppressive hallowed and inspiring softer pleasant itchy and ticklish various and tumultuous simplest and happiest amicable or charitable reckless, hungry warm and better generous and constitutional native, unsophisticated exquisite, refined zealous and anxious social, benevolent and humane sweeter or gentler bitter or vindictive warm, high-toned sentimental and quite natural perverse and painful uneasy and distressing your--er--real sad or pleasant great-grand-filial despondent, gloomy national and sectarian wayward, self-willed real but inscrutable violently real but inscrutable violently real acute and affectionate idle, morbid actually more actually more or less localized organic internal corresponding unprecedented, internal often devout serious or often devout cold and unpatriotic good and not personal hard and even harsh vindictive and morbid new but happy painful and angry fine and high-toned deep-rooted inimical calm or tranquil quietly hopeful sadder softer congenial religious inborn aristocratic profoundest and most intimate competitive and ambitious --unfraternal bitter and exasperated peculiar and poignant however undisciplined however undisciplined and unguided undisciplined and unguided still uncertain and vague rude but strict calm spanish egotistical or offensive vivid and transient dearest and most personal bitter antagonistic previously overwrought distinctive inner smooth harsh gloomy homesick gay and human vindictive and resentful treacherous and jealous now sharper same mutual-aid noble traditional highest and most exquisite separate unpleasant buoyant and pleasurable earliest, strongest reckless, ungovernable gentle amatory troublesome kendal foolish, sinister quick and voluptuous old, happy and hopeful general and philanthropic best and most praiseworthy deepest and most elemental liberal and indescribable nice inconsistent bad and jealous rousing passionate simple and unadulterated active sensitive vague but urgent supersensitive communistic worth and kindred undefined, gigantic thankful and anxious commendable filial natural and yet constant ideal or apparent concomitant or accidental bitter, impassioned generous or magnanimous wicked criminal implacable, bitter obscure and yet deep common & natural different thy vague, uncanny and bizarre uncanny and bizarre uneasy and burdensome extremely uneasy extremely uneasy and burdensome indefinable and unaccountable always keener always keener and more obscure and indefinable large, obscure and indefinable common and unsophisticated simple and vivid amazing strong different and confusing equally disconcerting profoundly ambiguous such depressed indescribably solemn delicate and lofty exquisite ecstatic smug good warm patriotic excellent and considerate good innate absolutely foolish feudal and patriarchal sad or joyous sublime and disinterested moody and despondent vague undifferentiated virtuous human exciting strange sad, such tempestuous and despairing vague, exalted natural benevolent religious poetical general, individual semi-filial innate and instinctive unquiet, restless strange, tangled own fraternal complex and ambiguous real and deeper warm and irritable wild and vagrant sacred and sincere other and far better violent and sinful hitherto callous pious and grateful sensitively affectionate curious unfamiliar natural and substantial bitter and indignant such ambivalent fine internal better, other perhaps strong bitter and resentful ambivalent good and grateful strongly troubled wonderfully exquisite unsettled, ambivalent anxious, apprehensive deep-rooted and bitter protosexual strong lustful new and breathtaking other, overwhelming grown-up sexual such possessive steady oppressive odd unsettled daft, girlish negative or rebellious difficult, contrary similar loyal ridiculous nostalgic unforgettable, personal and characteristic strong, ambivalent weird, cozy sickening loose also nagging cularly strong sensitive personal innermost strongest exciting shivery narrowly nationalist astonishing and strange exorbitant good unusual but strangely familiar useless, extraneous ambiguous, helpless newfound paternal deepest, innermost fero�ciously passionate impassioned and bitter gaudy and dramatic negative and unhealthy zealous anti-soviet violently nationalistic taboo sexual sadistic, lustful and self-destructive lustful and self-destructive away romantic former bitter terrible, unworthy quite ardent lightest and deepest inane, confusing leftover, lukewarm mildly incestuous best tepid horrible sensual delicate bookish solid, inescapable other, fiercer multiply outrageous affectionate or amorous difficult or negative resentful and angry pseudo-parental complex irrational strong similar hispaternal unreliable such vague and almost subconscious many pent-up deep-seated positive mysterious, enormous violent and contradictory primitive, fearful aesthetic or military complex and shapeless presumably appropriate and desirable presumably appropriate tiniest innermost squeamish and negative rather squeamish and negative strong proprietary strange paternal horrid hollow own homosexual unaccountably warm angry, negative sensitive, macho past unwelcome long-dormant protective old and hostile hitherto inexperienced semisexual static and fuzzy abruptly bereft solemn, funereal strong, inarticulate other, inevitable supposedly nobler inappropriately lustful least amoral awkward or uncomfortable puzzling, chaotic slightly sexual \ipersonal uncomfortably exciting greatest competitive feral, edgy powerful, uncontrollable quiet, buoyant such upbeat gritty and noble grinned—“filial multiple bad difficult, inexpressible tired—unusual old and tired—unusual dirty, shameful wildly ebullient late antagonistic pure and domestic bitter, indescribable alive bitter exciting grateful wild strong joyful and painful uneasy remorseful unseen, vague mild and conscientious zeal and hot happy, complacent hostile or unkind frigid and indifferent instinctive and unalterable same unalloyed antagonistic or hostile intense artistic genuine intimate superfluous raw malignant and miserable indignant and hostile kindred gracious presexual sexual physical vague but pleasurable sanctimonious religious further cordial harsh or angry best and most serious racial and patriotic exciting erotic liberal and best naturally unpleasant blind internal hard and envious bitter and sectional often improper violent and various innermost personal generous and natural thy benevolent deep perplexed evil, hostile always decisive and rapid always decisive sad and awe-inspiring deeply depraved more unchristian rebellious hard sensitive and selfish romantic chivalrous healthy and positive higher altruistic afterwards angry stronger devotional malignant and bitter deepest, best sore and haughty happiest and most satisfactory sarcastic and contemptuous cold or hostile primitive and vital calmly reverential almost unrealized egotistical and hateful otherwise inexpressible fundamental and spontaneous warm devotional fresh, impulsive languid and nervous benevolent and honorable bitter or resentful simpler and milder honorable and humane deep and incomprehensible nameless sweet odious and malevolent little, envious healthiest and noblest honest and warm horrid, envious tremulous shrill rudimentary and incomplete vindictive or malevolent young hospitable rousing warmer unpleasant monomaniacal chiefly painful real cosmopolitan especial patriotic envious but not malevolent passionate, warm present inimical highest and most reverential emotional and perhaps better bitter grudging bitterest and angriest fierce, rebellious decent and reverent hostile personal previous better finer religious immediately gratifying sacred and patriotic gloomy, angry odd, cognate warm sure envious and ferocious sinful and angry unalterable, universal simplest and deepest abject, servile sensual and impassioned queer and disagreeable sorely overwrought own thankful human, generous purest and most chivalrous sensitive delicate same remorseful active and impetuous happy and pure usual quixotic pure humane unkind, ungrateful natural and noble divine certain primitive and indestructible natural and not uncommon actual momentary holiest and most generous natural and painful undoubtedly strong delicate and deep many traitorous soon morose and bitter soon morose hourly more and more hourly more serious and plaintive intellectual, aesthetic and moral simpler elementary warm and fitful purest best devout and joyful oldest erotic quite inexpressible often uncomfortable cordial, warm devotional and superstitious warm and susceptible tremblingly delicate warm and social vigorous, exuberant uncomfortable, hot profoundly poetical dormant and better reverential religious petty and contemptuous especially honest solemnly festive domestic and parental indefinite, hazy pure hallowed liberal patriotic genuine benevolent dark and unworthy reverent religious gloomy and nervous sad but proud high devotional sensitive and compassionate social or altruistic malevolent, vindictive common and fine common and spontaneous warmer and sweeter false and sinful wild and sometimes frantic peculiar and pleasurable subjective and private openly partisan hard resentful corrupt natural violent vindictive intense parental unhappy nervous hostile and painful black, unhappy powerfully condensed hot and dreadful purely maternal best and most chivalrous secret and most sacred vague and unsettled such gentler hostile and menacing dark and wrathful deeper and gentler strange and variable indignant and bitter bitter and remorseful fond and familiar miserable despairing benevolent & humane extremely affectionate and ardent innermost and deep exalted and pious different and emotionally significant bitter or unkind tangible, blind natured and unworthy jealous or covetous foolish and unkind uncomfortable, discontented inhuman, cruel devotional and penitential cold and death-like ordinary and selfish angry or hostile generous & noble personal and offensive buoyant and variable best and deepest social and sympathetic own contradictory soft rotten deep devotional naturally human benevolent and malevolent completely positive new, disturbing recent bitter former passionate equally uncomfortable own vindictive profoundly passionate own humane stronger, deeper proud bad rousing new happy and animated awful mysterious aside personal great, fine quite undesirable own ambivalent strong tribal old poignant other depraved strong devotional finer social naturally passionate finest and most subtle much uncomfortable gloomy and distressing shrill and noisy warm and benevolent evil or weak religious or warlike exceedingly angry generous, warm good and joyous however human pent-up queer, sharp own pent-up such avaricious malevolent and wicked noble and delicate intense individual gentle and natural seeming neutral warm and faithful bitter social increasingly ambiguous creepy, scary own justifiable general and predominant inexplicable and irresistible still queer particularly amiable quick and profound seemingly instinctive refined sexual sectarian or denominational hot and acrid chief elementary patriotic and chivalrous strong patriarchal entirely loyal low, unworthy sad such many and enthusiastic primal masculine well-developed sexual romantic ideal pleasurable sexual distinctively sexual natural proprietary subtle and tremendous youthful, unsophisticated
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Words to Describe feelings
As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "feelings" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "feelings" are: primitive and noble, darker animal, normal, generalized, uneasy and ambivalent, and morose, unkind. There are 995 other words to describe feelings listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe feelings 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, "feelings" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.
Note also that if there aren't many feelings 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 feelings?
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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