Describing Wordsfor Rivers

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Here are some adjectives for rivers: important arterial, 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, wide slow-moving, black and wintry, few navigable, upper rogue, large navigable, wide, slow-moving, fat, incessant, pink, fluorescent, goodly navigable, broad sullen, deep slow-moving, undulating reptilian, extremely broad and deep, single steadfast, swift but shallow, piercenal, great bygone. You can get the definitions of these rivers adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to rivers (and find more here).

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Words to Describe rivers

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

important arterial 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 wide slow-moving black and wintry few navigable upper rogue large navigable wide, slow-moving fat, incessant pink, fluorescent goodly navigable broad sullen deep slow-moving undulating reptilian extremely broad and deep single steadfast
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swift but shallow piercenal great bygone massive dazzling oily underground majestic navigable powerful and cool beautiful, slow turbulent dry not-national broad and now sluggish red unbroken intoxicating verdant brown, cool stagnant, slow-moving delaware--imperial grand and peerless vast and swollen great navigable many navigable large and navigable great, underground other, immense 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 broadest and most rapid vast, swift large turbulent past, perpetual broad and rapid blue lazy turbulent, shallow occasional nameless now great and powerful silvery, silent swift, turbulent unseen underground grey, swollen down siberian longest and most majestic many and broad thoroughly inhospitable quiet, navigable wide and silvery noble rapid swift choppy wide adventurous swift muddy greater tidal upper fal italy considerable biggest and most admirable keer-weer--mythical 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 other navigable navigable muddy, swollen year-old dry banahal wide and sluggish slow brown several navigable brown-black airborne dense, sluggish frosty galactic last, azure comfortably broad rapid and rough bigger and worthier dangerous equatorial large, slick eager and swift massive, inexorable chief navigable slow-moving urban hot but beautiful 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 swift narrow swift icy fair, sparkling gay distant massive orange much governmental slow muddy 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 muddy european broad swift `principal broad and murky smaller rough vast dried-up thin briny broad and swift down swollen slow ancient picturesque and finest dirty slow mostly impassable icy underground impassably wide broad and fairly straight ancient pre-glacial major navigable treacherous and aggressive shallow, shrunken treacherous and destructive fervent implacable commonly more or less sleepy and reluctant commonly more extraordinary unknown purple, fatty serene and picturesque unknown, slow-moving rather deep and rapid mostly rapid dark, intangible mostly rapid and unnavigable horribly wide and swift great and navigable horribly wide long or easily navigable turbulent warm turbulent, uncertain generally quiet and uneventful shorter european longer terrifying swift, dark-green actually subterranean greatest and most navigable wide or sluggish clear and little black skill shallow and crooked turbulent, brown greater asiatic brown, swollen broad, deep and swift great forgetful vast, sluggish dear, blue-green such subglacial broad, crystal vedal bright swollen else convenient brilliant, impatient soon miniature empty fal smaller alaskan high twin inhospitable, impassable great and lazy transparent and sparkling swift and vast broad and redundant distinct and almost tangible handsome navigable drowsy, warm quiet navigable swollen main down distant and unknown swiftly sinister australian tidal turgid, deep wide and shark-infested wide and slow-moving best-known and most important overdue lower everywhere flat and low mighty and untamed everywhere flat black and bad-smelling white marginal large and very broad swift, narrow and shallow historical rogue independent and intermediate sunny, boisterous occasionally sinuous enormous colossal important unexplored mild and glassy sullen, bestial poor murky mighty, turbulent swift, unknown noble and navigable now calm and sluggish short and partly navigable large and heavily timbered long and navigable greenish, wintry rapid swollen large and now impassable beautiful and deep capacious freshwater mighty, silvery vast and navigable big navigable swift and muddy broad & dangerous perilous tropical full muddy fair and crystal subterranean or partly subterranean deep mighty ample and historic european tidal larger navigable lately navigable often swollen and difficult dark noiseless broad torrential sacred and fruitful vast navigable large and very swollen reedy and bushy green lucid wide navigable whole unsuspected waal, large swart and noble wide, promising beautiful, shallow rapid rough broad tortuous generally short and torrential wide, idle indeed tidal dim, slow-moving rocky tortuous sullen, tireless fiery or cold limpid, peaceful brackish and intermittent fine but strange navigable western misty, brown seemingly full-grown mostly transverse pleasant navigable small and very rapid larger freshwater sacred but invisible australian or siberian crooked, unnavigable short and abnormally broad wide and yellow everywhere convenient 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 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 wide placid big, muddy numerous navigable slow, grey broad rapid large rapid great, sleek wide, muddy broad, mighty wide sluggish gentle, silvery good navigable certain furious messy black wide and gentle major european wonderful underground broad, swift powerful subterranean cold galactic great and sparkling broader open large serpentine mild, blustery principal navigable wide tropical silent crystal broad but very shallow longest and most picturesque still wide and deep giddy, rapid broad, angry green and troubled exceedingly sluggish central himalayan 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 considerable navigable wide and lazy many tidal great sluggish slow and smooth damned endless copious and picturesque 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 lower subterranean black sluggish long east-west wide tawny sullen dusky yon glassy mighty and famous broad peaceful beautiful historic down mighty calm and majestic mighty central shallow, placid wide tidal swollen and rapid almost dried-up nauseous little swift, narrow broad and quiet broad muddy great collateral mandal broad, sluggish wide, sluggish wide and rapid willow-lined filthy, slow-moving great, sluggish pure, swift broad, northern wide and navigable broad, treacherous miniature fake jagged cosmic high-level urban lovely placid peremptory and imperious friendly curved vast tenebrous endlessly fertile neal cold sluggish, braided numerous dried-up large sinuous turbulent purple breezily industrious thicker, wider huge dried-up sluggish polluted bright milky legendary twin million-mark unnavigable european nameless armenian white, unsubstantial private wet once undisciplined suddenly busy former underground now sluggish slick and shallow great, slow-moving profane underground crazily inverted slow clean sparkling smooth great and salubrious peaceful subterranean wonderful tidal mighty, free highly swollen massive, swollen dark-green tropical misty flower-scented historically lesser impossibly dangerous largest canadian vast and turbulent partially navigable horrible dirty numerous and deep third-largest underground sluggish, tortuous calm, muddy strong and capricious svelte coastal other siberian majestic main sluggish european twisty moonlit now clear and little dirty oatmeal copious and unfailing shallow glacial malignant and merciless wild broad large swift glorious, broad crooked deal great stygian great and unnamed madly swollen pastoral or scenic cold and insistent great or navigable bright troubled pestilential and swampy icy greenish intricate and serpentine brown sinuous sluggish, southern already thick and humid southern great beautiful, lost largest and most navigable general, lost sluggish and muddy least, ankle-deep several swollen slow-moving blue south numerous broad and congenial plentiful and pleasant cleaner, colder down pallid broad brisk down tropical still green and fertile fine navigable slow, muddy such swollen small turbulent treacherous unknown great, filthy large colombian broad, slow-moving largest navigable cold damn also tropical turbulent, fearsome large, navigable real underground grassy, sluggish vast perennial broad and boisterous stormy swollen inland navigable major, navigable different amazonian already high and swift important navigable grey, urgent powerful and copious wide, active smaller navigable placid inner eternally hot glassy grey short but navigable virtually treeless broad and endless untamed upper yellow southern greater glacial african international grim turquoise fickle, unfaithful swift underground woodland, crystal meager, dark great unmanageable foul dried-up modest, unnoticed young and sentient many limpid silent, furry swollen and very rough sluggish, murky fair navigable nearby second few and sluggish braided molten good tidal powerful underground therein fair wide relentless pleasant and navigable 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 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 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 so-called international 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

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Words to Describe rivers

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "rivers" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "rivers" are: important arterial, ghastly rapid, beloved untamed, breezy and sparkling, and undetected underground. There are 986 other words to describe rivers listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe rivers 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, "rivers" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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