Describing Wordsfor Sadness

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Here are some adjectives for sadness: curious lightheaded, deep helpless, separate, selfish, profound, black, sleepy, antique, odd quick, stolid, careful, same heartbreaking, terrible shocking, poignant, irresistible, pious and quiet, vague and nervous, bitter and totally unexpected, profound and everlasting, also nostalgic, distant and wistful, singular ineffable, tall, ineffable, horrible self-pitying, occasional indefinable, wistful, genuine, profound, grief-stricken, calm and curious, high, horrid, own gut-wrenching, obvious, honest, infinite beautiful, infinite haunting, fond deep, pathetic and majestic. You can get the definitions of these sadness adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to sadness (and find more here).

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Words to Describe sadness

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

curious lightheaded deep helpless separate, selfish profound, black sleepy, antique odd quick stolid, careful same heartbreaking terrible shocking poignant, irresistible pious and quiet vague and nervous bitter and totally unexpected profound and everlasting also nostalgic distant and wistful singular ineffable tall, ineffable horrible self-pitying occasional indefinable wistful, genuine profound, grief-stricken calm and curious high, horrid own gut-wrenching obvious, honest
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infinite beautiful infinite haunting fond deep pathetic and majestic gentle and calm beautiful and almost magical infinite, hopeless dreary and quiet pale, faceless fearful, wistful curious relative inexpressible but poignant unuttered secret wistful and inquiring gentle, delicious dreadful, remote deep, unidentified gentle nagging immense and not unpleasant sarcastic mock strange and very useless fine, coy strange, secret and unaccountable calm and celestial ineffable, devastating agreeable refined penetrating and quiet terrible and immeasurable dismal, profane fancy or weird unconscious, unnameable dreadful tense continual sentimental intense, historical infinite shrill fatally intoxicated invincible and dreary quiet, heart-rending melancholy indefinable almost abiding pathetic, ominous seeming gentle faint, poignant eloquent, peaceful forth deathless languorous, inexpressible invincible personal brilliant, such playful, celtic empty, unredeemed inexplicable penetrating profound, celestial irreparable, eternal profound, desolate wistful celtic infinite solitary wide-eyed, haunting perhaps despairing striking serious haunting enigmatic internal and thoughtful excessive and signal daring and humorous deep indefinable sober and sincere weak and moody continual but quiet peculiar serene solemn and titanic almost piquant wise, valiant mortal sunny luxurious, ineffable tranquil and pervasive desperate, middle-aged premature sunny thoughtful and deep sweet, languorous mild and wistful once sombre profound and anxious dreamy and sentimental weary, reluctant grave great quick sentimental instant and infinite gentle, tolerant desperate, bone-deep sweeter and sweeter unmistakable and inappropriate timeless poignant deep and unbearable elusive postcoital remote and weary pleasant, nostalgic ce-lestial amorphous and aimless indescribably intense bright and imperious odd listless deep urgent terrible, distant horrifying mock pure, luxurious desperate and wretched private, paltry awful, alien desperate, deep usual self-pitying unaccountable, overwhelming calm, amiable infinite, mysterious strange impressive strange, tranquil deep latent deep and immeasurable inherent and appalling strange but exquisite loving wistful intense nosocomial far-reaching, infinite strange, ineffable awful and fierce silent and devout indescribable, mournful deep, unuttered strange and unanticipated dumb, heavy strange but sweet deep, furrowed sweet, inexpressible solemn and mighty ineffable human plaintive, solemn profoundest tragic morose and haughty habitual severe strange, funereal great drowsy fake such deep, inexpressible short, much brief and inexplicable extraordinarily sweet profound and obvious deep, overwhelming sober, silent evident and painful natural and incurable certain woeful deep, unalterable profound, incurable gentle and romantic odd happy sweet melodic ominous and inexplicable immense, irresistible unobtrusive, quiet calm, humble profound and personal mysterious haunting curious luminous vague inexpressible quiet, impersonal gentle, deep strange, forlorn new, quiet deep and unrequited apparently genuine slow theatrical faint, unimaginative profound and pervasive strange, bittersweet sudden piquant calm but deep dreadful, heavy brief, inexplicable beautiful, rhythmic almost autumnal slight and fugitive deep, helpless deep, immeasurable wan and wintry dark and oppressive dreary, mournful thrilling, plaintive gloomy and silent well-nigh unbearable slight, sweet same amusing great awful deep, shy deep and haunting irresistibly sweet deep and expressive secret and unaccountable wild and ancient wild, inexplicable much uninterrupted ordinary superficial curious, cynical wasteful, useless deep fraternal spontaneous, heartfelt same melodious passionate and restless heavy mental surprisingly sweet gentle, uncomplaining infinite and terrible deep constant big sorrowful deep, heart-rending strange, hopeless dull and vacant strange inexpressible deep, oppressive gentle, tremulous stern and contemptuous calm, curious profound and overwhelming now unusual silent uncomplaining same poignant soft sentimental empty interior sore great deep silent strange barren sudden, visceral strange ecstatic same inexpressible strange, oppressive usual and characteristic wondrous wild deep and glorious eerie, haunting soft and thrilling dim distant inexpressible weary and hopeless much thoughtful more nostalgic sudden, profound queer, unexpected deep and infinite almost pristine deep nostalgic faintly pleasurable great, everlasting great, bottomless little quizzical strange seductive certain intense more incurable terrible, helpless grave and pathetic same distant same overwhelming gentle graceful deep, painful huge, impressive certain inexplicable great and overwhelming deep and weary deep, inexplicable terrible overwhelming awful savage deep organic terrible, unspeakable same somber deep and endless deep and indescribable genial and gentle great, calm now habitual slight unconscious sudden and curious heavy, sickening deep and hopeless still haunting lightheaded bitter, old almost frightening infinite human quiet, uncomplaining quiet, gloomy terrible, unnatural quiet, languid sweet and poignant great, hollow deep, bitter refined and exquisite soft, pleasing deep and mellow such inexpressible deep, tremendous soft slow terrible, tragic great and desolate ineffable deep, unbroken such unendurable little dreary new and poignant almost mournful fine sweet profound wistful vague and wistful vague sweet ineffably sweet certain wistful certain delicious infinite strange, inhuman strange, fascinating certain sublime strange, haunting grave, sweet equally gentle such unfathomable quiet, meditative evidently mere real and deep stern and sombre dull, silent almost cynical such profound terrible, painful lestial certain weary such abject more unqualified rather cheerful long and profound sudden mysterious certain stern rich sweet deep, abiding extraordinary and unaccountable post-coital real, heartfelt same wistful great dumb mere girlish certain gracious awful, awful sudden overwhelming same remote deep, terrible little scornful strange, dim certain gentle dark, sinister such wistful sweet, gentle deep and profound certain philosophical oddly sweet stern and awful green and amber sweet, solemn same unfathomable certain indefinable utter and hopeless deep and abiding same imaginative soft and dreamy great and real own vague rich full old primeval almost wistful nosocomial calm thy bone-deep little wistful almost ridiculous delicate and exquisite old, small almost reckless such sincere such genuine cold, weary certain pathetic almost poetic deep and terrible same vague certain fascinating deep and ancient indescribable mock same stern sudden deep such implicit strange egyptian deep, unfathomable deep new sweet indefinable reminiscent deepest same infinite such deep sober overwhelming sudden wrenching same helpless stern young unbearable terrible, terrible certain divine strange, wistful unspeakable such hopeless poignant haunting strange hot new and horrible almost unbearable heart-wrenching deep and secret uncomplaining bittersweet deep, heartfelt wild sweet almost overwhelming nearly unbearable deep, inner such infinite much sweet great and sudden quite human whole enormous sudden, overwhelming great mysterious almost solemn strange sweet great dim self-pitying heartbreaking quiet, unobtrusive deep and serious certain vague own bleak calm, sweet abiding such quiet rather bitter nearly silent unendurable nostalgic sudden bitter thy solemn habitual little happy real or feigned dreamy unaccountable intense somewhat dreary humorous elegiac unrelieved more devout altogether unpleasant almost despairing unnameable deep and quiet such graceful almost magical strange wild immeasurable such fascinating gentle sudden and intense certain indescribable dark, deep profoundest totally unexpected oppressive equally beautiful such gloomy bitter nagging unfathomable great and deep languorous heavy, heavy sweet and gentle deep personal past or present almost childlike overpowering own desperate such intense hopeless despairing little natural unacknowledged pervasive momentary deep spiritual sudden and inexplicable vague postcoital ancient classical same deep funereal such soft strange, sweet weary mournful sepulchral own eternal terrible almost passionate feigned almost intolerable deeper almost human same terrible soft and gentle plaintive gloomy little genuine heartfelt incurable such heroic gut-wrenching almost painful grief-stricken such unusual deep and bitter heart-rending also less evident deep-rooted tragic inexplicable shady undefined small sweet own present pleasurable quiet appealing more fruitful new, strange dark and mysterious ual wrenching haughty utter fleeting deep, deep submissive tolerant confluent almost continual unfelt deep, dark melodious irrepressible sweeter premonitory unredeemed sweet thoughtful solemn unconquerable last faint soulful calm prophetic just pure same sweet same quiet sudden deep inner such gentle indelible testy pathetic inherent life-long passionate stern unuttered penitential introspective vast empty more poignant such evident inborn bereft contemplative intolerable homesick noncommittal bitterest depressing genuine such charming illusive utmost own deep more disturbing speechless real human invincible silent certain grim frightful almost superhuman such bitter penetrating unspoken woeful extreme sentimental little real old, familiar uncontrollable unanticipated strange and terrible sardonic such absolute affectionate strange immense moody mortal reflective abstracted faraway unquiet death-like such utter sullen envious now familiar pleasing small sharp unavailing uplifting palpable ever-increasing abysmal serene peculiar premature deep-seated tranquil playful anticipatory steadfast insufferable prescient celtic harrowing ironic generalized frightening puritan dreary unobtrusive painful ineluctable such long unusual sickening morbid grave teen-age more sober meek awful expressive ashen sincere repentant undisguised numb such ancient sombre world-weary meretricious boundless festal delicious immoderate hopeful downcast impersonal desolate unrequited irremediable bearable disdainful latent unqualified thrilling helpless abject intoxicated uttermost such extreme scornful unmistakable autumnal inextricable certain far-fetched such incredible mellow unaffected quizzical tense desperate piquant anxious complete and utter eternal inscrutable involuntary exquisite bottomless morose mild furrowed lifelong sweetest lyrical irreparable more quiet compassionate distant implicit unwarranted unsettled majestic visceral blissful continual new-found unending faintest melodic reluctant many-sided gentler sudden sharp monumental solicitous transient reverential cynical undeniable inquiring unexpected overbearing grievous tremulous vacant apathetic poetic own natural nameless monotonous mute listless seeming fervent everlasting indulgent same general embarrassing comical milder greater or less solitary austere stolid unbidden loving bygone consequent pious inevitable same dark dumb sedate omnipresent heavy such terrible more painful superhuman same little unexplained untold apologetic faceless subtle subliminal impressive obvious fraternal philosophic placid ever-present innate benevolent deceptive secret inexorable constitutional ineffectual sorrowful romantic impenetrable great and terrible wintry sleepy darkling repellent shy sinister constant unalterable pitiful contrite proud positive sudden and unexpected fond keener irresistible flattering strange new equal dull apparent reverent mysterious shocking unchanging immutable drowsy leaden ominous stinging unconscious resultant refined infectious ecstatic dim unhealthy rhythmic fearful insistent sociable remote incredible excruciating divine soft unlimited sunny resentful inordinate insupportable unimaginable coy such little troubled feverish luxurious uneasy tremendous fruitful such sweet restful selfish wasteful happy visible gravest unwashed washed-out monkish forlorn such great mystic business-like childlike more such amusing imperious ical unnecessary unreasonable deathless unavoidable meditative indignant sleepless hollow pagan patriotic able magnanimous preposterous shrunken elfin illusory inarticulate unidentified responsive sharpest curious grim unrestrained age-old magisterial somber enigmatic whimsical singular wide-eyed perpetual ironical horrible contemptuous odd slight celestial innocuous sympathetic intangible voluptuous inner deplorable callous natural subconscious finite unpleasant intrinsic maternal instant careful nondescript passive arrogant nervous radiant salutary bleak devout corrosive faint long, long generic serious extraordinary limitless philosophical decorous timid discordant persistent

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Words to Describe sadness

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "sadness" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "sadness" are: curious lightheaded, deep helpless, separate, selfish, profound, black, and sleepy, antique. There are 995 other words to describe sadness listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe sadness 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, "sadness" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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