Describing Wordsfor River

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Here are some adjectives for river: ghastly rapid, beloved untamed, breezy and sparkling, undetected underground, cold untamed, still brown and swollen, dim, hungry, lower rogue, far-off metal, sparkling and green, chambal, large and dependable, black and wintry, upper rogue, wide, slow-moving, pink, fluorescent, broad sullen, undulating reptilian, extremely broad and deep, single steadfast, swift but shallow, great bygone, oily underground, powerful and cool, turbulent dry, broad and now sluggish, red unbroken, intoxicating verdant, brown, cool, stagnant, slow-moving. You can get the definitions of these river adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to river (and find more here).

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Words to Describe river

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

ghastly rapid beloved untamed breezy and sparkling undetected underground cold untamed still brown and swollen dim, hungry lower rogue far-off metal sparkling and green chambal large and dependable black and wintry upper rogue wide, slow-moving pink, fluorescent broad sullen undulating reptilian extremely broad and deep single steadfast swift but shallow great bygone oily underground powerful and cool turbulent dry broad and now sluggish red unbroken
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intoxicating verdant brown, cool stagnant, slow-moving delaware--imperial grand and peerless vast and swollen great, underground fairly wide but real still narrow and dark little sturbal brown serpentine gloomy unseen main canadian desultory, placid wonderful, fearful inaccessible, unnavigable triumphant and imperial vast, swift large turbulent past, perpetual broad and rapid turbulent, shallow now great and powerful swift, turbulent grey, swollen longest and most majestic thoroughly inhospitable wide and silvery swift choppy swift muddy upper fal biggest and most admirable whole polluted gay, oblivious navigable little arctic red gay and rapid lovely tidal lower vaal tawny and sluggish mighty, awe-inspiring pleasantly companionable comparatively broad and quiet same world-renowned deep and convenient exceedingly difficult and hazardous black and fatal large and navigable muddy, swollen year-old dry banahal wide and sluggish slow brown brown-black airborne frosty galactic comfortably broad bigger and worthier large, slick massive, inexorable slow-moving urban hot but beautiful large navigable previously wide and swift previously wide endless mighty wide salty treacherous, sullen foul-smelling grey pale and aimless torrential little proportionately voluminous and deep proportionately voluminous dangerous and rapid wide but absolutely dry auspicious and celestial unclean, historic day-meal important but rather narrow still swift and violent picturesque but most tortuous mighty and far-famed exclusively portuguese northern and treacherous wide, unruffled large and beautifully clear nice, twisty fairly navigable principal infernal boisterous, violent and unmanageable down lost stately navigable impetuous and grand gomal great navigable swift narrow fair, sparkling gay distant much governmental unpleasantly wet broad solitary rapid tidal beautiful but shallow impetuous gray shallow, sluggish deep and rapid noisy, muddy wide and swift broad tidal wondrous and awful broad swift broad and murky vast dried-up broad and swift slow ancient dirty slow icy underground broad and fairly straight major navigable shallow, shrunken fervent implacable sleepy and reluctant extraordinary unknown serene and picturesque rather deep and rapid dark, intangible horribly wide and swift horribly wide turbulent warm generally quiet and uneventful longer terrifying actually subterranean wide or sluggish black skill turbulent, brown brown, swollen great forgetful dear, blue-green broad, crystal bright swollen brilliant, impatient empty fal high twin great and lazy swift and vast distinct and almost tangible drowsy, warm swollen main swiftly sinister turgid, deep wide and slow-moving overdue lower mighty and untamed black and bad-smelling large and very broad historical rogue sunny, boisterous enormous colossal mild and glassy poor murky swift, unknown now calm and sluggish large and heavily timbered greenish, wintry large and now impassable capacious freshwater vast and navigable swift and muddy perilous tropical fair and crystal deep mighty european tidal lately navigable dark noiseless sacred and fruitful large and very swollen green lucid whole unsuspected swart and noble beautiful, shallow broad tortuous wide, idle dim, slow-moving sullen, tireless limpid, peaceful fine but strange misty, brown mostly transverse small and very rapid sacred but invisible crooked, unnavigable wide and yellow yellow and swollen ago entire smaller and parallel broad, deep and rapid beautiful and copious fair, watery silent torpid smooth but awful broad and almost navigable shallow, devious clear, colored lazy, shallow muddy and contentious uncharted deep-sea blue, icebound broad, remorseless ma-al long or longest cold and mortal muddy, wide wide and wasteful narrow noiseless narrow, turbulent aforementioned little murky, slimy unusually high and swift swollen and turbulent deep and smooth joyful, forceful sluggish, useful huge navigable beautiful and fabled shallow and noisy muddy african beautiful and most picturesque short but most precipitous vermilion, placid dreamy, slow-moving inconceivably beautiful and grand brown and turbulent largest dead navigable and majestic short and sluggish regular subterranean south canadian now senile swift, broad incredibly rough and treacherous dark pestilential typical himalayan noble but sluggish former and crooked wind-swept tidal magnificently navigable narrow, deep and crooked equally clear and limpid silent and shallow dark-green narrow rapid indal ordinarily solid great and navigable darkling stygian tawny, swollen fairly deep and cold immensely wide and stormy enormous brackish broad and swollen fair sluggish straight reedy worth, horned narrow and undeveloped placid, quiet and noble busy navigable surpassingly rich and productive peculiarly good and self-sacrificing momentarily sinister innocent swiss mildly picturesque great and always navigable always navigable inconsiderable but impetuous fabulous celestial now broad and deep stupendously appealing shallow, bright thine, matchless wonderfully tangled plain and dark wide, rapid and limpid largest and only important great majestical vast ephemeral still darkling exceedingly self-assertive late busy steady or shallow extremely rapid and rocky great vaal bravest, fairest lower senegal main crooked dire and wondrous capricious, mighty navigable tidal remarkably high and full primary navigable mighty, inexhaustible longest unnavigable vile african rollicking swift plain, sinuous absurdly tricky seal or red tiny and most picturesque extremely serpentine and wild extremely serpentine tistedal hard and really good dirtiest and most villainous old tidal now deep and broad small but rather rapid silvery, brackish broad and very muddy roughest and grandest finest perennial turbulent but usually shallow rapid muddy hashal broad and listless demure and rather dull sparkling and romantic majestic lower storied and scenic rapid but attractive grand and rapid swift and rather narrow sluggish tortuous beautiful, rocky dark and inexorable slow and somewhat wide gunjal still swollen and rapid short tidal dry and usually healthy beautiful, large and navigable extremely rapid and dangerous straight and artificial interesting but unknown staid and promising fourth infernal wayward and crooked faithful companionable leaden livid mysterious, long-sought smaller himalayan well-behaved, navigable mystic warm broad, right-hand monotonous and muddy tremendously adventurous white passionate grand and broad pure and tasteless narrow but tolerably deep lone african broad mighty gentle and shallow graceful and magnificent abundant little yellow and tepid staid and primitive countless subordinate important or navigable muddy swollen gentle, legendary placid narrow vast mighty unfortunate or unlucky silent bengal fair and chrystal difficult tidal glorious, swift remarkably black and deep navigable big, muddy slow, grey large rapid great, sleek broad rapid wide, muddy broad, mighty wide sluggish gentle, silvery good navigable certain furious messy black wide and gentle wonderful underground broad, swift cold galactic broader open mild, blustery wide tropical broad but very shallow still wide and deep broad, angry exceedingly sluggish historical little broad, deep-set swift, brown deep placid treacherous and unknown red ancestral shadowy yellow sluggish, brackish mournful stygian fabled miraculous mighty and rapid magnificent navigable broad preglacial great impetuous bustling bulgarian muddy, silent narrow but swift muddy, turbulent darkest, dirtiest french petite large and rapid broad and placid vast, turbulent muddy, yellow big straight deep, swift wide and lazy great sluggish damned endless great temperate wild rogue especially vindictive bright, thick broad and noble clear, rocky beautiful and rapid grandest and mightiest sluggish muddy long, sluggish bright broad wide muddy broad, majestic deep, rapid black sluggish wide tawny yon glassy broad peaceful beautiful historic calm and majestic mighty central shallow, placid wide tidal swollen and rapid almost dried-up nauseous little broad and quiet broad muddy mandal broad, sluggish wide, sluggish wide and rapid willow-lined great, sluggish broad, northern broad, treacherous jagged cosmic lovely placid friendly curved endlessly fertile sluggish, braided large sinuous breezily industrious huge dried-up bright milky million-mark nameless armenian private wet suddenly busy now sluggish great, slow-moving crazily inverted sparkling smooth peaceful subterranean mighty, free massive, swollen misty flower-scented impossibly dangerous vast and turbulent horrible dirty third-largest underground calm, muddy svelte coastal majestic main twisty moonlit dirty oatmeal shallow glacial wild broad glorious, broad great stygian madly swollen cold and insistent bright troubled icy greenish brown sinuous already thick and humid beautiful, lost general, lost least, ankle-deep slow-moving blue broad and congenial cleaner, colder broad brisk still green and fertile slow, muddy small turbulent great, filthy broad, slow-moving cold damn turbulent, fearsome real underground vast perennial stormy swollen major, navigable already high and swift grey, urgent wide, active placid inner glassy grey virtually treeless untamed upper greater glacial grim turquoise swift underground meager, dark foul dried-up young and sentient silent, furry sluggish, murky nearby second braided molten powerful underground wide relentless muddy, shrunken black, turgid strong, greenish metaphysical alien tremen­dously swift broad, languid wide geal mighty, torrential tremendous motionless thin, muddy past dumb broad slow-moving indecisive underground moderately swollen brand-new unplanned small and unnamed nevertheless difficult and dangerous nevertheless difficult still dry and sandy unseen and formidable vast strong swollen, muddy dead, muddy gigantic equatorial upper and beautiful sluggish tidal vast calm graceful celestial drab, swift everywhere deep and full misty stygian chief australian placid, shallow rarely travelled alternately quick and dead alternately quick deep and very clear dumb, unseen ample or considerable great, muddy sputtering dirty dried-up stony beautiful dal mighty muddy old snowy furious radical prevalent celtic almost navigable sacred, principal mighty populous broad land-locked muddy, sullen sandy, flattish deep but sluggish sluggish tropical silent and almost motionless little but rapid turbulent, swollen freshwater tidal calm swift great and limpid yon muddy grand unfathomable horlingdal warm and impure deep and very cold savage and sullen shallow yellow deliciously clean inconceivably beautiful considerable open-air mighty, muddy serpentine, narrow far-off spanish wide, ever-changing little, rapid mighty main swift and swollen rapid but smooth yon bright and pleasant temporary dry yellow, swollen canal or small old, underground deep and awkward crystal but deep limpid and agreeable wide rapid capricious and terrible big mighty big sallow wonderful and world-famous blue lazy quick and productive nearest navigable full-grown little black, sluggish huge, circuitous fabled great broad, navigable joyous, sparkling exceedingly beautiful and fertile beautiful and navigable turgid, muddy broadest and longest north canadian noble eastern formerly placid sullen sluggish red, turgid insignificant sluggish spanish muni dangerous underground three-fold divine rapid but narrow red and turbulent turbulent and terrible largest asiatic bare tidal now turbulent and muddy slow, yellow impetuous and important large and impassable powerful and copious great, wavy cold and gruesome navigable but non-tidal wooded precipitous nerve--real greatly swollen and turbulent yon sullen mystical underground great and very rapid bright, placid extensive but uncertain grandest scenic nasty, muddy dark, fateful scanty and little-known oval flat ordinary mature big tumultuous erratic and useless tranquil, willow-lined narrow, placid bright rapid generic british damnably public small nice short tortuous deep and fatal drab, silent holy merry quiet, grassy handsome bold swollen and sluggish glaring, green narrow tidal shallow but rapid blue and graceful broad and rather singular broad, motley now clear and unmistakable tortuous, rapid dreary and tempestuous unspeakable sluggish polluted, pestilential swollen tawny erratic and arrogant quite narrow and deep small but very rapid ocotal noble parallel tranquil, fruitful inexorable, invincible mighty erratic strictly equatorial greatest equatorial swollen, turgid fine shallow grand and luminous extremely crooked and much picturesque vaal dull, sinuous now swollen monstrous big broad, rapid wide, swift deep and placid wide and steady deep swift swift, dangerous small, dried-up swift and turbulent big clear small, sluggish little freelance wide and muddy deep and turbulent real artificial mighty and unknown cold, rapid broad placid fetid, muddy sluggish brown pink, misty poor sleepy wide endless far upper black, sullen rapid, muddy broad and navigable still swift swift clear deep, boundless small but rapid pale dry long navigable longest and widest wide, slow swollen muddy shallow but very broad swollen, turbulent strange and obstinate enormous phosphorescent long nebulous nameless ancient slow-moving, clumsy great somnolent broad and cool calm and sluggish delightful and sacred brown sluggish considerable navigable dark, dreamless cruel gray muddy, brown large and sacred sacred celestial swift, snake-like little serpentine exquisitely calm wide majestic rapid and narrow dusky, empty quiet, sluggish magnificent, broad small navigable dry, wide mighty unknown lonely african mighty and remorseless incredibly rough sluggish, yellow great and black gentle clear flat and dismal little recumbent rapid but noiseless wan, grey surpassingly rich peculiarly good brown wintry great sub-tropical sluggish, reedy dark rapid bright and swift rapid and limpid black, swift sparkling, merry large, considerable largest navigable placid, silvery sparkling old solemn egyptian cool swift comparatively swift far-famed and beautiful rapid, unnavigable brown, rough calm broad broad and endless fair deep grand sunny mad, dark sluggish narrow five-inch and four-inch quick and swift largest interior generally shallow solitary and majestic sleepy, ancient broad, placid north-flowing wide, powerful broad majestic big stony other fabled dark, unseen slow full wide full small foul slow, broad still brown mighty tropical dark stygian broad and sparkling dark unbroken violent and unmanageable wide, mysterious broad, noble now shadowy unnavigable vaal broad and sluggish deep, slow-moving shallow, stony swift, muddy chitral sweet sparkling swift and rapid wide and large broad, calm now broad clear limpid deep, broad small, sparkling nearest good wild, great murky, salty slightly murky swift and treacherous brown tidal strong glacial great slow-moving damned rogue implacable, uncaring now great sluggish little thin and filmy ancient huge immense, flat-bottomed wind-swept, muddy biggest italian narrow and intermittent wide, silver-blue swift, narrow broad, sullen leaden, sluggish broader, lengthy dirty, silent murky, sluggish wide but short narrow and nameless short, muddy wide reedy wet damn most long frothy, brackish beautiful virtual fast-moving underground little sluggish foul, honest stupid, cold grainy dark static black swift, wide large and swollen broad navigable narrow, yellowish hushed white next navigable sudden, transient broad, tranquil swift, hungry lazy tropical deep and icy cognominal cold and abundant large and peaceful large, navigable rough rapid sleepy monotonous clear, wonderful silent and lonesome large and very fine full magnificent broad and sinuous upper current broad and safe broad and silent great, rapid good forceful certain inconsiderable muddy chinese yon crystal quiet southern gracious, generous deep swollen swift and clear broad, tawny swift, shallow barisal other navigable flat french calm, full wonderful and majestic quiet and noble good and self-sacrificing full, refreshing rough and rapid bright, rapid calm and mighty clear rapid great placid narrow but rapid wonderful ironclad bright and rapid brown, clear shallow sluggish fierce and narrow large and unexplored rapid and rocky noisy and pretentious short, dense deep, massive small tortuous thy turbulent swift blue-green swift and bright dangerous and turbulent broad blue-green

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Words to Describe river

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "river" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "river" are: ghastly rapid, beloved untamed, breezy and sparkling, undetected underground, and cold untamed. There are 995 other words to describe river listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe river 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, "river" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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