Describing Wordsfor Mood

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Here are some adjectives for mood: poetic and contemplative, wan and heartless, self-pitying morbid, dark and volatile, current dark, bright and talkative, aggressively confidential, uncharacteristically forthcoming, mutinous, reckless, impassioned and repentant, proper berserk, somber and reflective, unusually somber and reflective, joyful, adventurous, angry and terrifying, non-political present, fascinating, bold, uncharacteristic sullen, similarly poetical, erratic, unpleasant, unwontedly expansive, intoxicatingly mellow, crazy, elated, permanently foul, high-strung and somewhat irritable, cheery and talkative, affectionate and good-humored, _ed_--potential, thoughtlessly festive, generous and fantastic. You can get the definitions of these mood adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to mood (and find more here).

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Words to Describe mood

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

poetic and contemplative wan and heartless self-pitying morbid dark and volatile current dark bright and talkative aggressively confidential uncharacteristically forthcoming mutinous, reckless impassioned and repentant proper berserk somber and reflective unusually somber and reflective joyful, adventurous angry and terrifying non-political present fascinating, bold uncharacteristic sullen similarly poetical erratic, unpleasant unwontedly expansive intoxicatingly mellow crazy, elated
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permanently foul high-strung and somewhat irritable cheery and talkative affectionate and good-humored _ed_--potential thoughtlessly festive generous and fantastic supremely reckless significantly religious always cheerful and equal tense, indicative wondrous merry unusually expansive high abstracted uncharacteristically dour expansive, happy discreet reflective real receptive glad or angry singularly lighthearted upbeat self-congratulatory highly self-critical apathetic sullen morbidly reflective joyously festive feverish, irritable mechanical and repetitive tranquil, instinctive merry and playful extremely unconversational unwontedly gracious unwelcome and irksome foregone ethereal blissful, solemn common merry intolerable, alarming anxious or sorrowful current black unusually bright and talkative unusually affable gaily festive perpetually foul trenchantly flippant internationally cooperative rotten and angry dull vermeil rare foul nervous, dreamy momentously bad halfway happy seemingly euphoric usually sentimental brutal bearish serious, exalted again serene again serene and gentle wholly receptive tense indicative unpromising, unfortunate unusually social calm unchanging usually exalted strangely negative negative but disturbing strangely negative but disturbing softer better rapt, genial independent, undefeated remarkably gracious confidential and talkative less scholastic wanton and merry tense, emotional unnatural dreamy bold and receptive cynical indolent cheerful contemplative solemn and undiurnal rigidly prosaic dissatisfied and repentant drunken and irrational communicative and confidential dangerously energetic strongly impatient softest and most catlike open and charming cheerful and condescending serious and communicative supremely exacting wonderfully confident extra jovial pleasant, quizzical especially hilarious odd, paradoxical unusually mellow restless, edgy nostalgic and sentimental normal sullen unusually metaphysical present rebellious rare mellow unconversational increasingly sour indicative relatively mellow fairly somber altogether brighter restless, disgruntled absolutely regal casual, talkative unusually communicative surprisingly conciliatory nostalgic, philosophical totally foul surprisingly tolerant strange, flighty depressed or morbidly introspective rather violent and quarrelsome abstracted and contemplative completely foul particularly bright and joyous reverent and prayerful insufferably jocular particularly manic affable, expansive former berserk expansive, genial and talkative uneasy and dangerous fairly optimistic gloomily critical giddy, goofy black, emotional moderately foul high-pitched and grandiloquent essentially suicidal exceptionally receptive pleasingly unreal curiously suspicious and aggressive extreme mortal silent and sulky particularly silent and sulky positively pleasurable bustling and vivacious former studious present fractious quaintly merry bitter, fatal hilarious and reckless enlightened after-dinner politely cynical rare, receptive miserably sterile particularly loquacious blithe, confident rather tranquil sufficiently receptive irritable, sarcastic inquiring and serious fittingly reverential festive, convivial resentful and ungovernable wonderfully merry soft caloric particularly good-humored and expansive good-humored and expansive particularly good-humored hard self-absorbed mad, vicious cheerful and contagious delightfully cheerful and contagious odious and desperate sorrowful and doleful electric responsive remarkably brisk classic and impracticable foolish, inattentive gaily attentive revolutionary and reckless passionately appealing talkative and even confidential silent reflective properly joyful reflective or prayerful unaccountably serious merely perturbed metaphysico-poetical strangely quarrelsome commendably patriotic sick and frantic overwhelming lyrical former implacable serious or gay singularly alert and observant own dreamlike wayward, half-crazy loquacious or inquisitive hushed and plaintive arbitrary metaphysical present spirited properly loquacious severely exalted gloomy and meditative thoroughly self-conscious rapt and exalted fatuous, sentimental humble and philosophic wondrously humble and philosophic wondrously humble sentymental particularly light-hearted brief militant bright and social present and peculiar thoroughly foul pleasant and mellow fragile, fleeting cheerful, outgoing deeply introspective peculiarly sober present despairing proper sadistic rare garrulous grim and thoughtful properly loving unexpectedly sour specially amiable dull and wretched calm angelic higher, gentler private gentle wrathful and savage dull passionate less rapt present colloquial unusually somber dark and morose equally thoughtful same berserk particularly vindictive rather foul properly receptive sudden and erratic unnatural euphoric languorous, hazy dark and introspective fine, maudlin particularly waspish angry and ungracious national gung-ho swampy, eager especially jocose own upbeat contemplative, silent run-of-the-mill bad generally lousy jovial, reminiscent deep, depressed upbeat, confident glum, angry cheery and expansive extravagant and colorful pervasive gloomy rare, expansive less blithe somehow festive puzzling, dark hazy, reflective genially expansive earlier waspish generally foul nagging black feverish, bitter edgy, violent darn foul understandably sour thoughtless, girlish relatively communicative sour and restless rare lustful earlier crotchety newly conciliatory ruthless, dynamic good, precise present angry increasingly contemplative unsettled bad nearly expansive vaguely devotional reasonably philosophical meanest, foulest critical and miserable rare and philosophical earlier sudden queer, submissive surprisingly benign latest dark growingly dangerous glum, uncommunicative typically dour unusually pleasant and jovial hushed, low-key faintly confidential unusually jovial tremely mellow strange, lightheaded bad sleepy mellow and complacent nervy, antsy odd, playful usually feverish own identifiable uncommonly idyllic somewhat sad and depressed fairly charitable generally despondent grimmest and most terrifying moderate, temperate desolate homesick sad and listless blithe, courageous insidious, dreamy haunting, somber doubtful and thoughtful unusually complaisant frankly frivolous particular lighthearted theatrically tragic well-fed, lazy final, prophetic singularly merciful specially genial unwontedly receptive decidedly perverse dismal and dire sullen and weary depressed and angry abstract, subconscious saddened thy indicative or potential tranquil contemplative unusually affectionate and dutiful extravagant or romantic lighter or happier joyful, impassioned thoroughly sensible and cheerful general elemental apologetic and self-conscious severe or cordial broader lyric general heroic casual, dreamy grave or comic inconsistent but very human noble managerial rather dry and caustic abjectly thankful perverse or obscure exceedingly sulky quiet sentimental peaceful, indifferent daring and provocative specially playful surprisingly indulgent happiest, wildest unprelatical reverent and lofty sore and irritable unusual and indiscreet sad or sparkling strange and reciprocal joyous and ephemeral daring, madcap supremely philosophic comfortable, receptive jocose, irreverent unusually calm and gentle strangely explanatory comfortable postprandial singularly pleasant and amiable calmly genial unusually playful dramatic and therefore temporary purely esthetical healthier, nobler cautiously negative obedient and female kindest, softest humble penitential dull or conventional idle, meditative fairly murderous somber and depressed sufficiently mellow grand, magnanimous unkindly critical incurably cynical distraught, bitter warm and expansive sadly defiant listless, confidential calmest, every-day tolerantly humorous sentimental and introspective somewhat sentimental and introspective less blissful muzzily talkative appreciative and complaisant savagely defiant innocently merry unnatural, rollicking highly processional blissfully foolish genteel, domestic soft shakespearean harmoniously-patriarchal serious and irritable finally predominant sorrowful and thoughtful hot, hopeful stout headstrong jovial, communicative decidedly receptive still elegiac unwontedly easy unwontedly easy and genial disdainful and independent irritably anxious predominant enthusiastic cheery and amiable particularly perverse weak despondent austere and epical jocular and serious heavenly seeming triumphant and sanguine thoughtful and particularly ungenial particularly ungenial indifferent and often cynical discontented and somewhat sulky complimentary and charitable other, unreasonable grandly purposeful sentimental, religious dreamy receptive distinctive and indicative dangerously romantic sarcastic, flippant extra fitful teasing, disdainful gay convivial particularly sober and serious black and reckless defiant, mischievous morbid and self-centered submissive and tranquil merriest and busiest particularly corso-carnival corso-carnival distinctly penitential remarkably imaginative silent and reflective true jacobitical lofty and angry vaguely belligerent abstracted and far-off dumb fierce poetical and reminiscent evidently cheerful bitter, breathless new and quite frivolous wildest, brightest fearless, showy contritely humble extraordinarily expansive present remorseful faintly irritable sinister and heavy rapt and lofty dreamy whimsical tearfully sentimental reasonable normal fevered, querulous eccentric, playful unquiet and irresolute mystic, reflective restless and thoughtless hypnotic, imperious horrid hostile prosaic, grubby frank, playful easy rollicking good-natured, facetious grave and glum unusually grave and glum particularly happy and generous synthetic and highly complex cold, satanic delightful and playful ominously uncompromising grateful nor reasonable singularly communicative sublimely adventurous perverse and sleepy proud desperate sullen, absent unstrung and despondent impatient and critical dangerously susceptible now charitable philosophic and conscientious sad and familiar passionately defiant absent and tremulous exceptionally genial easy and pliant happy, single listless, dissatisfied same quarrelsome somewhat conversational exceedingly receptive mellow and receptive singular, uneasy tenderly fraternal narrow and external strangely cheerful sulky, savage unusually meditative somewhat warm and indignant wildest and severest lofty and impossible suspicious and vindictive merry, fanciful rather communicative increasingly businesslike natural and most playful present truculent acrid and suspicious unusually acrid and suspicious oddly jubilant present joyous specially angry ordinary and unmoved too-convivial wonderfully jubilant depressed and metaphysical unusually genial and communicative unusually susceptible comparatively gentle and pathetic dumb and dangerous hostile and unrelenting cheerful and expansive hilarious and impertinent characteristically reticent creatively critical murderous amorous serious and susceptible lucid critical calm and introspective reckless and discontented hygienic, fruitful present foolish sane, generous cynical, realistic ill and petulant grave or abstracted humorous and hilarious thoughtful and absent quarrelsome and nagging deliberately dangerous merely recreational frivolous or merely recreational usually contradictory abiding and fundamental high anticipatory peculiarly speculative astonishingly sociable admirably receptive cheerful, common-sense radically insincere vociferous carnival gracious and expansive particularly dissatisfied dangerously warlike new, obscene estranging new previous compliant sad and emotional dead, amorphous low and languid particularly happy and hopeful cynically philosophic playful, reverent silent, oppressed uncommonly playful worst inquisitorial dead, voluptuous uncommonly facetious after-dinner and most gracious wonderfully sincere and lifelong apishly imitative specially jocular meditative and communicative mildly merry darkly tragic nerveless and despondent awful original extremely despondent exceptionally solemn and thoughtful devilishly artistic silent and absent-minded strangely silent and absent-minded quite jovial positive or imperative merriest aquatic affectionate and cheerful wildest, grandest quiet but mournful restless and most unsatisfactory childish teasing wild refractory lighter, safer lazy playful happy meditative reckless and curiously exciting comfortable and complacent blithe and saucy genially human perplexed and downcast probably fleeting radiantly good-natured undecided and erratic especially ironical amiably apathetic exasperated, cruel quiescent happy sad, philosophical restless and contradictory particularly indeterminate ominously genial hardest and most businesslike riotous, care-free wonderful, elated inexplicably reckless dull, sorrowful comically mysterious irritable and discontented decidedly irritable and discontented reckless and merry conspicuously depressed new spirited nervously indifferent rational balanced mild, philanthropic present calmer singularly gracious and generous irritable and despondent remarkably talkative icily formal already irritable and savage mild unpretentious difficult, singular present angelic dangerous and whimsical late furious strange altruistic reflective, contemplative tryingly playful painfully savage sufficiently warlike awful and imminent weary nocturnal boisterous juvenile sometime mystic present elated courageous after-dinner unnatural and despicable usual fanatical reflective, wide-awake despairing and sorrowful creative and literary alien imaginative friendly communicative buoyant, triumphant joyous, elastic and happy tolerable hungry affectionate polemical desolate and listless cheerful, mischievous awkward and maladroit particularly awkward and maladroit abnormal and hostile seemingly deep and reflective unusually genial and happy joyous and impetuous haunting and deepest depressed and lonesome mournfully dreamy sad or depressed gentle, exalted voluptuous but sympathetic placid, sensible civil and communicative grudging or indulgent piteous and sentimental bad, sulky such bravest unusually silent and thoughtful sensitive and somewhat dangerous gentle, philanthropic suave, benignant such unconversational marvellously naturalistic gay, madcap genial and most considerate occasional philosophic ordinary imperative rather blue and cynical blue and cynical jocosely horrible furious and vicious uncertain and sullen meditative, minor hoveringly quiescent philosophic and contemplative petulant and uncertain curiously petulant and uncertain gentle post-prandial cheerful and reminiscent singularly cheerful and reminiscent affectionately jovial tiresome and obstinate now optimistic soft vain black cynical angry or careless occasional platonic selfishly sentimental present sanguine vacant or dismal dreadfully teasing pert and defiant gloomy, unsettled happiest and most instructive gracious or softer seemingly reflective unusually facetious unusually indulgent crusty and savage sullen and thoughtful temporary heroic indefinite, unlimited sometimes expansive and benevolent next runaway somewhat wild and sombre uttermost wayward oddly clumsy convivial ionic devilishly brilliant correct interpretive playful, genial holy penitential weary and dreamy rather weary and dreamy reflective, reminiscent unsettled and irritable last fickle obviously exemplary and virtuous obviously exemplary suspicious and crabbed somewhat exalted and generous furious and tempestuous calmest and most conscious thoughtful and indifferent present new-found quite inexorable reckless, sullen sudden angelic bland and indulgent dull and irritable perverse and reckless present ecstatic brutal ironic audacious and talkative natural sombre unnaturally reckless peculiarly appreciative thoughtful and silent imperturbable business-as-usual sullen and despondent present self-absorbed particularly joyous and happy angrily reflective profane and awful gloomy and somewhat bitter native, rancorous clear classical breathless hasty exalted and heroic buoyant spiritual undiurnal decorous, good-natured brutal and ironical thoroughly thoughtful unusually exuberant sombre and introspective jovial and audacious unusually scrupulous particularly pleasant and communicative evil or unthinking absent meditative lazy contemplative bitter, weak thoughtful and splenetic exceedingly light-hearted perfectly contemporary dark wayward refractory and gloomy fairly communicative reminiscential and intimately personal sad and introspective mild and drowsy nervously abject dreamily joyous digestive or contemplative merciful and politic proper serious sluggish and gloomy bounteously paternal unexpectedly social peculiar meditative present discordant happy, tuneful garrulous, cheerful good imperative religious or reverent unbelieving, hopeless uneasy and fastidious particularly festive desperate, defiant truly foul suddenly somber general hostile new and quieter well-known after-dinner agreeable after-dinner unusually confidential mad and frantic emphatic political further black gloomy, bitter sour and gloomy sophisticated, tragic happy, lustful troubled and apprehensive restless and rebellious terribly lazy dangerous, self-destructive talkative and communicative already somber grim, grim sleepy, amorous remarkably jovial genial and talkative present shaky strange apathetic eager, elated particularly impossible obviously savage grim and vicious present sour suspicious and aggressive usually communicative unusually merry rather reflective sad and contemplative particularly complaisant present sensitive rare sombre protracted mild decidedly animated decidedly boisterous deeply despondent dreadfully sentimental sullen, impatient joyously expectant exceptionally gloomy devout and gentle gay or sober sullen, unresponsive defiant fantastic angry and irritable high bad calm and contemplative cynical and pessimistic particularly lousy hard, ironical solemn and reflective gracious and captivating such hilarious peaceful and grateful same uncommunicative former merry quiet and dangerous soft and amiable usual despondent depressed and miserable unusually talkative usual satirical lighter, happier almost jovial more communicative especially odd especially affable >especially odd trental particularly baronial hysterically self-pitying understandably solemn and cautious understandably solemn mellow, helpful span>abysmal span>perpetually foul ri�otously festive triple bad real trusting loudly festive fine, dreamy present bleak foul and edgy oddly paternal fragile, false pleasantly agreeable real hostile ambitious, conventional sideways quarrelsome equably cheerful suddenly gloomy expansive, good downright festive rare obliging angry ungracious uncertain grateful remorselessly uncooperative silent, self-important hard stoical truly sour especially cynical uncommonly moderate soberly pessimistic cheerful, upbeat strange and angry un\-usually communicative british and superior lly thoughtful unpleasant and critical quietly sinister affable, tolerant sad and nostalgic recklessly jocular fine, ferocious dour, bitter brief bad simple transitory present cranky excitedly triumphant intensely testy next secretive relentlessly somber angry, sorrowful morbidly philosophical consequential icy lousy uncooperative sour and irrational late angry reverent and thoughtful already unpleasant impatient and perilous

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Words to Describe mood

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "mood" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "mood" are: poetic and contemplative, wan and heartless, self-pitying morbid, dark and volatile, and current dark. There are 995 other words to describe mood listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe mood 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, "mood" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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