Describing Wordsfor Music

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Here are some adjectives for music: enough classic, fresh, thy, soft classical, heavy, atonal, classical or contemporary, coarse and discordant, equally coarse and discordant, now grand and somber, soft instrumental, catchy fill-in, seriously morose, equally stylized, vocally extravagant, appropriate triumphant, thrilling martial, such perforated, joyful metal, alien, polytonal, gloomy liturgical, soft, elder, italian florid, barest simple, sooo impressive, french instrumental, grave, far-reaching, glorious invisible, gloriously indignant, loud and heroic, brassy military, romantic-revival. You can get the definitions of these music adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to music (and find more here).

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Words to Describe music

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

enough classic fresh, thy soft classical heavy, atonal classical or contemporary coarse and discordant equally coarse and discordant now grand and somber soft instrumental catchy fill-in seriously morose equally stylized vocally extravagant appropriate triumphant thrilling martial such perforated joyful metal alien, polytonal gloomy liturgical soft, elder italian florid barest simple sooo impressive french instrumental grave, far-reaching glorious invisible
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gloriously indignant loud and heroic brassy military romantic-revival orchestral and ethnic solemn, triumphal �vocal faint, important dim sedate plaintive, fairy beauteous and pure unmistakable new inspiration--real drink--real inspiration--real classical and military merriest and most ingenious vocal and instrumental loud thin ceaseless harsh scientifically compacted basal popular rowdy cajun powerful and rhythmic high-volume, fast-paced always hollow airy and translucent absolute or instrumental loud queer brash and impulsive faint exquisite beautiful and evocative prettiest and most talented skillful, evocative delicate, melodic concerted vocal overhead, ethereal loud classical rotten ethnic subliminal patriotic faint classical wild, pagan harmonious and joyous wonderfully harmonious and joyous innocuous and silly young bloody original barbaric, intoxicating esoteric german mindless, sugary open, excess eerie unfamiliar somewhere strange rhythmical and exquisite sorrowfully beautiful martial but most inharmonious severe orchestral inner rhythmical far-off choral finer, simpler cold, insidious welcome vehicular extravagant and complex purely instrumental still sad again--mortal noble austere low, percussive full-throated, sweet barbaric, monotonous strident chinese indeed sublime incredibly dulcet nonliturgical human classical oddly atonal solemn synthetic portable synthetic loud, operatic softly passionate temperate common international contemporary bouncy, repetitive preferred classical liveliest hungarian strange tinny tinny, bright soft lyrical propulsive inner swift, intricate purely sacred unpopular popular local immemorial somewhat harsh and monotonous low martial earliest vocal gay and sad rude instrumental weird and enchanting henceforth italian refined, piquant usually vocal cheap and natural stately dramatic dreadfully sweet pleasing and various mad, harsh intoxicating and perhaps immortal grave and fearful soft far-off glad, ecstatic spirited and warlike voluptuous, agonizing composite, dramatic appropriate and immemorial dramatic and sacred eastern secular gentle but unromantic weird and pleasant admirable metallic personal, passionate disinterested evil continually beautiful mad and rapt music-vocal savage, inexorable wild, african strange, fairy instrumental and vocal solemn and strange eerie crystalline harsh brassy small disorganized already loud sweet, fairy instrumental sweet and genuine pure instrumental adept marvelous sonorous visual faint, far-off and ineffable far-off and ineffable mostly brazilian clearly sacred loud canned elusive silvery wild, haunting contemporary electronic rhythmic, vigorous soft and distressing discordant, hacking cold, difficult endless, distant tiny, irrepressible strange atonal exotic, haunting positive, aggressive sappy boring dull raucous slow, woozy hard, brassy open, cajun strident military rich, aerial simple and sedate far-away, ineffable own legato much wagnerian brassy old-world vast, harsh terrible, potent characteristic and atmospheric potent verbal perfectly single and simple richest absolute always rich and sonorous best symphonic vulgar and ludicrous deep, awe-inspiring shrill and weary longer enchanting wild fitful feeble incidental `incidental bold and blatant brilliant birdlike noble, self-contained vocal nor instrumental also instrumental sweetest and most acceptable stormy but appropriate plaintive, doleful extremely monotonous and nasal soft and distinct slow speechless long and well proportioned turkish martial regular and soft sonorous, vocal mute, misty thin and uncertain demurely sinister desperately martial boyish but desperately martial uncouth braying white and big harrowing turkish pure god-given necessarily sad clamorous barbaric early german or italian plaintive fairy old and delicious forth soft and monotonous exquisite and enchanting preferred vocal _vocal and instrumental sacred, immanent slow, striking sublime and expressive imitative and descriptive purely imitative and descriptive previous, older sweet, loud solemn but seductive sweet barbaric specially imitative exquisite unfamiliar strange and monotonous commonplace evangelical strong, luscious strong, thunderous subtle but most beautiful fitful, horrible real silvery pleasant but comparatively artless queer arctic significant, nineteenth-century hence vocal mainly vocal wild mighty rude molten sensitive, abstract poor or insincere numbingly repetitive raucous and numbingly repetitive charming, sweet and sane disturbing and incomparable sick, unhealthy contemporaneous orchestral lively elemental rapid, reedy fitful and glad mellow, witching soft and invisible vocal or instrumental practically sacred classical and popular low atonal especially instrumental quiet classical favorite martial pious and mournful mechamcal faint but delicious delightful soft four-part vocal faint unusual sweet, interminable exquisite orchestral suddenly military sweet loud monotonous, solemn sweet and devout thy upland thin, rapid own instrumental distant, discordant sacred vocal real tinny extremely evil cruelly happy loud, off-key much resounding asymmetrical, compelling sinuous sensual high-pitched atonal incongruously sweet welcome, welcome fancy irish dead and canned bland characterless soft unforgettable new, southern booming classical imperial, patriotic slow windy colonial flip grand, earthy sweetly sorrowful faint, bizarre distant, maddening inaudible burlesque strange, off-key constant alien hauntingly beautiful and sad slow and seductive decadent and immoral bourgeois, decadent and immoral modern cajun scratchy distant free, alive soft but plaintive indefinite oriental awful electronic latest synthetic fully tonal gleechoreal jagged, discordant classical and avant-garde frenetic, bouncy bizarre, small plain, unmagical distant liquid savage, bright metallic martial low moody soft or plaintive pompous, grubby zany electronic sonorous, delicate exciting, wild earth-shakingly loud beautifully haunting strange, incessant sometimes instrumental soft, unidentifiable decadent counterrevolutionary bright and annoying fine, traditional tinny, rhythmic insistent, percussive far-off tinny weird atonal twentieth-century western usually low-class voice-over and appropriate gay and exhilarating mauve hungarian seductive, disturbing also soft and pleasant excruciatingly intelligent faint cheery utter distant thin, atonal urgent, insistent romantic, fanciful sentimental and martial thickly melodic hideous, antiquated nonstop industrial frantic, industrial delightfully pure and tranquil odd simple perpetual muffled grand and welcome melodious and voluptuous melodious and spontaneous gloriously melodious and spontaneous gloriously melodious sweetly quaint superbly mournful classical or fashionable preferred bengali excellent and very appropriate soft and very beautiful wild and jubilant noisy and very brilliant good or classical exotic and jerky martial and hilarious intricate concerted sweet sociable stricter ancient louder, sweeter casual open-air classical, serious happiest sweetest spanish, vocal awfully shivery sweetest pastoral enchanting, poignant loose--national difficult, florid present, sacred such antiphonal continental mythical distant sweet creepy, incidental considerable choral acrid, sinister weird korean softer effeminate nevertheless grand and inspiring nevertheless grand merely irritating and oppressive associate plaintive secondarily instrumental new seductive solo-vocal chantorial absolutely musical sinewy and feverish least, happy shrill queer passionate spheral glorious and yet familiar calm glorious classic and common poor or common bitter thrilling newer harmonic pure, self-sustaining intoxicating and inaudible evidently sweet eternal high-class old instrumental into--celestial forth celestial incoherent and monotonous furious, grand and supernatural dreamy and spiritual gruesome and characteristic cheerful, melodious fitting appropriate french or thy martial or patriotic operatic and even orchestral pure rustic last, weird now wild and weird wondrous savage fine orchestral _instrumental and vocal eighteenth-century contrapuntal often uncouth and ponderous graphic picturesque picturesquely weird emotionally fitting low, remorseless invisible and softest stern and splendid allusively witty keen and exquisitely fine sentimental and restless often sentimental often sentimental and restless loud, frivolous fresh strange exceedingly clever and effective exceedingly bright and tuneful admirable declamatory hush and sacred purely instrumental or vocal javanese and burmese pure irrelevant mediocre symphonic glorious pictorial utterly untheatrical exclusively consonant now instrumental classical vocal far-away, sweet extraordinary and individual severely ecclesiastical higher vocal characteristic delicious classical, heavy italian, operatic shrill mysterious voluptuous and impassioned with--instrumental simple and plaintive charming, characteristic italian instrumental often clever and brilliant weird but vehement sonorous but ominous slow and yet passionate correct but commonplace grandest dramatic austere, noble artistic choral _antiphonal absolutely imitative descriptive and characteristic sweet and vulgar ceaseless mournful terrifying, implacable little but popular slow wild efficient, instrumental unassisted vocal operatic or sacred plaintive orchestral colored and very characteristic noble concerted mellow minor contra-puntal or harmonious contra-puntal music--real sweet good congregational good or even correct italy dramatic gay, martial correspondingly alluring equal and persistent soft memorial south strange faint, celestial episcopal and jewish sacred, secular or operatic grand, joyful undoubtedly oriental confessedly programmatic singularly flat and hollow sloppy, undistinguished magnificent and lumbering mad, spanish subtle, inaudible solemn and appealing lively instrumental sad, morbid open, german organic and teutonic grand, ever-changing warm and lusty --[_rural joyous liquid exclusively severe and tragic beautifully descriptive exclusively severe highly suggestive and poetic suggestive and poetic imperious triumphant deaf sweet contemporary operatic worthy vocal lesser instrumental frightfully quick difficult and simple skilled plaintive instermental rougher, fresher supply congregational expensive vocal irish instrumental intoxicating primitive appropriate instrumental silent and still sweeter stern and yet airy complex orchestral secular and warlike monotonous but pregnant aside instrumental sentimental and specious random and uncertain determinate unmistakable soft and then loud blithe, good liquid quiet sensuous or purely imitative noblest martial ritual, beautiful high, purposeful low, mystic lively martial dainty, enchanting quick, intermittent sane and jubilant well-known melodramatic splendid melodramatic pleasant such noisy, unmusical ceaseless and most refreshing dreadful, stupid military instrumental exceedingly fresh and characteristic strikingly original and full majestic martial exquisitely clear and sweet necessarily monotonous and characterless eloquent and haunting wild and not unpleasant queer and uncanny stormy, unsatisfactory extremely powerful and beautiful peculiar and matchless slow sacred melodious popular downright perfect boisterous military savage, rasping orchestral and incidental undying comic instrumental ecclesiastical descriptive, picturesque effortless and seductive especially martial silvery, mournful beautiful, fantastic cheapest and loudest mute, world-shaking perfect concerted eerie woodland easy-going choral soft and weird classical and difficult finest and most classical excruciating fine stormy, wonderful shrill, wintry hardly shakespearean little cymbal thrilling, far-reaching noisy and incoherent low and rather doleful harmonious and mournful m-martial discordant rhythmic suddenly delightful ancient exclusive joyous choral imitative and theatrical bad depraved absolute or symphonic martial, classical better congregational capital charming delicate and haunting beautiful and inappropriate classical and merely academic expressive, harmonious larger austere tangled careless technical sacred breezy, woodsy unaccountably sweet new and unaccountably sweet loud and excellent clearest, fairy german instrumental sweetest and newest fitful soft romantic sacred loving sacred practised secular truly melodious vigorous and suggestive thoroughly devotional slow and appropriate much catchy monotonous, rudimentary sweet inarticulate alternately melodious and grand alternately melodious cheerful, continuous dreamy, haunting inspiring expressive mostly operatic serious romanian noisy tartar sweet martial now festive perpetual and distant fiercely monotonous intelligible, inexpressible exquisite, intolerable intense wistful incidental creepy refined and various fine and melodious unable sure mournful but exquisite monotonous, hollow score--classical highest and most unpopular spontaneous untrained splendid, fairy low, exhilarating mournful, discordant german sacred fiendish monotonous wicked, voluptuous gowned, good liquid and most sweet dreamy, continuous merry military hot, wrathful also vocal booming horrible wearisome classical lovely cordial soft and sublime beautiful but modest music--instrumental modern jamaican vague booming orchestral and instrumental wild, hungarian piteous and poignant real incidental fine incidental capital incidental contemporary incidental effective incidental full incidental good incidental modern shakespearian appropriate incidental religious and symphonic trivial, florid savage, deathless far-off but exquisite dreamily delicate singularly soft and sweet artistic and thoroughly grand longer sensuous strictly theatrical far-off but incomprehensible clear, whimsical latest liveliest noisy florid fine sacred soft and articulate dreamy, old-fashioned horrible, metallic rude furtive peculiar but sweet unspoken and perpetual tentative, subtle and passionate notably ecclesiastical forth angelic slow and sentimental sweet unspeakable latest and most weird exquisite and exotic national, oriental and primitive elizabethan virginal scarce and useful curious, scarce and useful valuable, old earliest woodland aerial, celestial slow, fairy orchestral descriptive german contrapuntal poetic and exceedingly personal quaint thrilling grandest restorative fearful, terrific loud unexpected incidental dramatic lyric, operatic or symphonic definitely expressive barbaric but agreeable ear-splitting chinese chaste and natural instrumental and religious forth mad unbroken and exhilarating refined national rough unrehearsed loving african serious and classical poetic, dramatic new incidental truculent military joyous, exorbitant immediately soft much instrumental fierce and animated thirdly--orchestral solemn and soft emotionally eloquent epoch-making ecclesiastical symphonic and concerted quicksilver orchestral abstract orchestral noble and ornate sparkling and original instrumental and operatic hideous earsplitting imitative picturesque comic conversational frequently insipid simple and frequently insipid noisy instrumental soon martial resonant glad faintly drawn-out boisterous and vigorous downright cheerful later beautiful equally charming and simple classical choral major vocal unaccompanied, concerted delightful, soft passionate and yet fantastic exceedingly up-to-date queer semi-oriental sweet, formal better sacred thoroughly agreeable and sweet newest and lightest rare pastoral gallant wistful noble and melodious florid passionate intimate, serious richer deeper softer, languorous shallow and empty unclassical italian obviously shallow and empty absurd brassy sad distant meek, incomparable inaudible orchestral vigorous and declamatory divine, triumphant operatic and classical classical and intricate severely classical and intricate pleasant and ceaseless sweet or majestic raucous instrumental plaintively sweet fine, savage weird and pleasing loud and majestic sacred but secular rustic and rude high and mournful wonderful instrumental pure, amber thin, elusive eternal poetic rousing, passionate inimitable and irresistible charmingly suggestive solemn emotional unheard low water--inconceivably fresh blatantly hilarious wild sonorous high-toned but sweet singularly swift and cheerful doubtfully sweet delightfully catchy soft insipid profound, soft somber, golden glorious and continuous metaphysical and inaudible noble, sonorous feeble, sketchy cheerful and also simple special or serious mellow, continuous last flawless slow distant nobler german generally dry and formal <cd>vocal or instrumental <cd>vocal modern instrumental new ethereal sorrowful, distant savagely discordant sweet, dull brilliant and stormy equally pungent strongly rhythmic classical orchestral later french and german mournful martial wonderful complex plaintive and mournful pleasantly bland weird, haunting keen, eerie electronic so-called >martial high, spirited european classical faint, discordant vaguely martial sudden, intrusive eerie, atonal faint, discreet incoherent human perfectly single particularly devotional exquisite and various hitherto muffled softly merry joyous or solemn purely pathetic ever impressive sad and ironical loud and irregular vocal and operatic pre-eminent classical sensuous and sentimental creepy, shivery quaint arithmetical splendid, inspiring braying, brassy secular vocal mere audible comparatively artless sweetly silent artistic vocal ever harsh soft, sickening instrumental or vocal faint and dreadful real elizabethan sweet, sour more scratchy little inspirational soft and gay lively animal often sweet delicious fairy musically uneducated low but beautiful grandest, sweetest almost monotone weird and eccentric simple and grave early polish classical religious beloved and well-known else invisible forth heavier hard, energetic forth spontaneous solemn triumphal harsh and mournful weird electronic sour sweet distant cathedral dreamy, exquisite soft, haunting slow and rhythmic choral and orchestral low, atonal unutterably sweet slightly annoying especially italian silent, spherical fierce and sentimental faint but sinister now grand angry, tangled vacant, skimpy usual, soft daintily wicked far-off and unpleasant soft, baroque mushy classical somber funeral atonal electronic

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Words to Describe music

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "music" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "music" are: enough classic, fresh, thy, soft classical, heavy, atonal, and classical or contemporary. There are 995 other words to describe music listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe music 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, "music" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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