Describing Wordsfor Shadow

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Here are some adjectives for shadow: probable, possible, bloated sundial, pallid shrunken, vast, grotesque, dark tense, stark and distant, slightest slight, vague contorted, indistinct, silvery, hence horrible, sinuous low, stolid dark, new, umbral, odd misshapen, mournful mysterious, vain and portentous, fainter or deeper, broad and disproportionate, intensely annoying, lovely suggestive, particularly high and deep, wrong, supple, gross, startling, vague, unidentifiable, deep, reddish, ponderous and ever-present, queer, longish, bulky, fearful, fleeting, vague, dour and frightening. You can get the definitions of these shadow adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to shadow (and find more here).

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Words to Describe shadow

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

probable, possible bloated sundial pallid shrunken vast, grotesque dark tense stark and distant slightest slight vague contorted indistinct, silvery hence horrible sinuous low stolid dark new, umbral odd misshapen mournful mysterious vain and portentous fainter or deeper broad and disproportionate intensely annoying lovely suggestive particularly high and deep wrong, supple gross, startling vague, unidentifiable deep, reddish ponderous and ever-present queer, longish bulky, fearful
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fleeting, vague dour and frightening sudden, thy dappled deep conceivable, faintest mysterious and still darker ominous, indistinct slim, elusive generally wedge-shaped monstrous, anthropomorphic faintest, palest tall, ever-present abysmally deep faint, sooty pallid, shrunken flat superficial broad gigantic mere darker weird and gigantic slight palpable shaven, gaunt and pallid kinder dark ineffectual pale discreetly sinister old-fashioned, unsubstantial dim and poor small, darker rich unexplored bold and colossal white and motionless grotesque misshapen long sonic tall, stealthy black breathless doubtful, massive squat, uncouth menacing, moonlit shapeless, massive secret, intriguing stout, disapproving deformed, dark flat, coloured shy blond dim, darkling vague but undisturbed permanent colored monstrous geometrical refreshing dark unrelieved, unbroken faint, swarthy broad and dense tall, gray-blue fateful gray solemn, grotesque erratic shapeless broad and almost impervious pale, intangible luminous and mysterious dark and impossible fleetest and most momentary beguiling purple inexplicable contradictory bluish or blue-green vague, tremendous black and almost shapeless voiceless and noiseless pale, delicate and sensitive jagged, purple faintest, little sinister grotesque luminous, haunting haunting luminous dank, cool particularly scary vaguely distinguishable thin, rumpled curved bright shapeless pale silent, predatory long, early-morning long grotesque vast dense faintest grey faint, indefinite hairy, sputtering almost nocturnal just dappled morose and miserable hot deep lean quick broad, fast-moving still uncomplaining irritating and persistent cryptic and ominous cold, towering equally feathery deep, deceptive complete and unrelenting alluring, dangerous darker, unseen black and horrific small but dark warm, semicircular loathsome, black long freakish grotesque, sentient worryingly broad slinky grey tall spidery slender additional vague, telltale sharp and proper tenuous, malignant thick and strangely solid oddly clotted huge stark absurdly cool indeed gigantic particularly dense and bulky black collective savage, loyal falsely protective brave, wan cold, masterful deepest imaginable same all-knowing ghostly animate composite, masculine white, impending preternatural, colossal huge, unfathomable spectral, haunting unessential and vain else unessential and vain else unessential black or mere intangible and sinister obscure and wan undulating and ever-increasing dense, undulating and ever-increasing thinnest phantom deep but only momentary vague and cavernous clean-cut greenish amber purple mystical gray certain, refreshing majestic velvety useless and persistent benign, unforgettable single, fugitive awful, shapeless gigantic ribbed wan meek dreary and wicked implacable sweet soft, momentary gigantic elusive broad or delicate deep, broad or delicate freakish and deceptive vast well-known poisonous, fateful faintest preliminary unbroken and constant empty, fleeting gloomy, malicious motionless recumbent densest and most persistent weird and jagged lurid and baleful baleful, imminent prim and clear-cut formal, unsubstantial slight, irrepressible curious, black vague harmonious strong, leafy obscure greenish scant but heavy natural and undiminished squat, active swart and portentous protective plausible blacker, sharper fearful crimson special but not invariable sombre but graceful gray weird invisible but abiding compact, circular great, bluish startling, gloomy terrible unsuspected unswerving black big, portentous angular greenish dark blended meaningless, distant real and reflective painful momentary ominous, hideous darkest and cruelest haunting, fleeting black, clean-cut feeble, voiceless faint chinese mysterious and far-reaching own moonlit mellow, solemn vast symmetric wide-winged, noiseless indistinct, gigantic everywhere perpendicular nameless but stubborn broad, black and hopeless soft, three-cornered usually perplexing clear and life-like dark, bloodless imperfect, uncertain deep deceitful voiceless, eternal slight and somehow wistful broader and blacker single hateful illuminating blackest low and very swift fleeting, puzzling deep multi-colored perfect or darker heavy and abiding dumb, vast brighter and sharper faint unsatisfactory hazy and dubious mere noiseless squared, black faint and pathetic fortunate dark vague eerie sudden unexplainable frightful, inarticulate portentous, terrific icy, irrevocable polite, unresponsive dark and grotesque dreary and darkling deep and appalling oppressive, disheartening ever-present but indefinable phenomenal and imperfect deeper and colder holy merciful sordid and ridiculous airy and subtle away sullen sudden thy cool, far-off grey, relentless black, more smaller, black tall stern bloated, misshapen deep, predawn peculiarly malign long, lacy extremely talkative slim slow great streamlined lumpier greatest, largest small fleeting wan, pallid inert, cold-blooded sombre and angry pleasing and restful cold and repugnant vague, slow-moving fleeting, dark mysterious inexplicable luminous haunting least dark large and indistinct dark spherical slim blonde constant dark deep, sombre sharpest and deepest nearly unchanged faint professional calm, motionless deeper and blacker vague, ragged amazingly lifelike huge, amorphous black misshapen unknown black momentary black constant, undeclared vaguely elliptical welcome, cool menacing blue dim, lumpy appreciably heavy frosted-coal haggard grey small and tattered gangling human past, brief gaunt and skeletal great, frightening other, lumpier faintly criminal thin indistinguishable silent, darker swift, iridescent powerless and angry equally powerless and angry vast, malevolent monstrous and antic silent, lethal terrible, invasive swift, active strange, movable high-echelon and very effective angry, disapproving dark, tacky deep, alluring boisterous and single-minded extremely boisterous and single-minded extremely boisterous black anthropomorphic furtive, ragged vast, onrushing queerly unpleasant slow trapezoidal big loyal brief but very human watchful, hungry stolid and expressionless mazingly lifelike invisible unmistakable vibrant colored long, wide-shouldered best and most innocuous black, spread-out tight, tangled gray-blue, two-dimensional oblong, darker less but sinister scintillating transparent eerie, pallid beautiful, disturbing gaunt and fragile unnoticed black darkly malevolent swift undulating white and coal-black occasional mother-of-pearl long and single broad penumbral silent, golden ever-present gray brief but unsettling totally dispensable enormous and glassy thin fuzzy abruptly willful same burned-out pale, anemic vast feathered unreal, gigantic dimmer gray hulking, thick distinctly dark true conical hulking lifeless deep nocturnal sepia dappled silent massive fleeting gray remote troubling hulking eight-foot malign everlasting impenetrable, improbable stark vertical cold, pervasive paltry, shapeless invisible gray firmer, thicker slimly aristocratic indistinct but sinister massive, sleek dense and bulky bulky, disapproving vaguely beloved bare faint filthy filthy vague, horizontal hideous, dark comfortingly masculine long sundial fleeting triangular unpredictable, savage smaller but still substantial slim, humble fantastically thin faint and misleading closer, solitary dim leggy silent, distressed ambiguous multiple boxy, earth-colored slightly corporeal sixth black invisible numinous anxious orange menacing angular dark-gray monochrome distinctive corresponding stupid regular towering, impossible black, hard-edged convex, black bluish crooked slight and transparent black thirty-foot diminutive and misty telltale dial grave perplexed dim massive dark and majestic terrible second massive conservative dim lilac huge conic ideal, beloved intangible permanent bulky, honest black, brief cold, mysterious dumb, fleeting inevitable fleeting gigantic uncouth delicate luminous still broad and dense deep but comic dim, prophetic continual sombre dim, fleeting mere hulking obscure dark dreadful, ominous great, limitless old, wistful profound and sombre alternately visible and invisible alternately visible elusive, filmy adjacent deep dark, convulsive tottering, pallid deeper woodland insubstantial grey black, sultry depressing black gigantic, bearded cool neutral deep hazy wan, appealing dim, contorted weak and secondary sacred fourth possible probable lean, persistent certain and vigorous gloomy evil delicate, busy weird and crimson fantastic, monstrous little blacker thin, dim indistinct and sinuous soft and darkling delicate v-shaped malicious, insolent terrible vague soft and rainy thin, tawny somehow wistful vain fleeting continual black distinct acoustic partial or lighter directly visible vague pervasive craven, abject dark, undefined poor fantastic indefinable black grotesque, spectral quiet, transparent lopsided darker fine thy haunting black mere pathetic gray and fleeting darker and still darker thine envious brief, human perfect sharp mild, golden exciting but irrelevant fleeting, contorted hush and dense faintest, softest towering pale weirdly punctual momentary small pale and far-off dark massive same dusky larger circular vast pyramidal huge, terrifying fearful, fearful squat, broad vague indistinct ominous, silent profound and quiet darkly thoughtful old sombre cool dusty cold blue-black black, breathless wispy brown peculiar and perplexing small, snow-covered luxurious warm deep and misty dimly conscious silent, purposeful great greenish poor lifeless great diffuse own crisp mordantly funny tall crooked mere pale single shapeless soft, aerial dappled black motionless brown own glassy scarecrowish tall indistinct massive, bulky impressively huge lithe, feline dense, low-lying mere submissive transparent, silvery gigantic and portentous least discernible perpetual, unbroken ominous and awful dark, forlorn fierce and enormous cool, greenish enormous fantastic grave troubled horrible menacing black, colossal vague, towering quick vague dismal and dark blue, sharp mere unreal real and menacing dainty colored grotesque and gigantic cool dense characteristic reddish reminiscent little dim, wistful dense and terrible long, uncouth domed blue grey, angry gray, spectral slightly truculent respectable, fat deep and oppressive fantastic and colossal dimly coloured cold and hateful mere great vague, white own fairest meaningless black incomplete or partial grotesque black broad cool slim, slight jealous and watchful mere prophetic vast shapeless goddamned filthy stocky, powerful long early-morning glossy old gigantic conical young madcap deep unbroken dark and portentous thin luminous dark and relentless vast twin white and bluish thy visible black, tattered odd cold small, sinewy dark, portentous same livid mere unsubstantial black and sinister long, misshapen sundial strange straight-line blue double immense elliptical disembodied black unfocused, black fleeting black silent, slim black, angular stuffy, weird single gaunt lethal biological capricious black equally powerless suspiciously deep vast restless great, menacing smooth oiled silent black-and-white nearest towering huge, featureless thin precise watchful blue vast, impenetrable enormous and terrible old, hideous comparatively deeper lovely clear-cut oversized protective purple underwater faint fleeting plain past small trusting icy, dirty pale and meek familiar slim disgusting green cold and fatal low and silent chilly purple cold-blooded capitalist faint coloured occasional cloudy pathetic pale full and stable ceaseless cosmic great, buoyant usual night-time tall, sparkling big, vague large, stealthy low, bulky somewhat roly-poly intriguing, intangible real persistent disconcertingly pale long and disapproving dark, translucent pale, insubstantial occasional spectral enormous masculine black and motionless dark, gigantic solemn, grey dark deformed warm, restful hazy, blue tall and mysterious grey and sober wan, shrunken large fantastic solemn, green vague and beautiful delicate elusive black lumpy deep, hazy incomparably deeper intangible and elusive great grotesque stern, towering big and bulky black and towering tiny lavender broad and dark blue, cool long fantastic usual purple grey sombre familiar misty gloomy and peculiar much lurid black and uncouth still dense little anguished gaunt and pallid tall lone dark and fateful animated brown mere ambitious scarce thy quite faint huge, gigantic dim, broad delightful and mysterious dark and fleeting gigantic blue-black mysterious, purple little darker faintest fearsome dark vague, dark dark, furtive vague, gray tall, bulky curious gray dark, malevolent great, furry gigantic, grotesque old moody strange gigantic faint vertical cold dank deepest, blackest dark sinuous own triangular infinitely black great birdlike sinister alien old, haunting pale and insignificant black, monstrous dim gigantic monstrous and alien mere possible vague and unsubstantial vague, black immense and awful menacing gray sturdy masculine limitless flat dark undefined powerful and gigantic sulphurous blue faint and transient awfully dark inevitable tragic pure brown pale indistinct vast, soft troubled, thoughtful secret mysterious gigantic empty green transparent large, grotesque big, swift black, haunting deepest and coolest awful and portentous swift, invisible dim and imperfect slight dark dark, amorphous slightly sinister vivid black vain empty silent, stealthy own gaunt dense black same willowy small, observant restless, uneasy thin tubular lithe, dark-haired huge and shaggy frail transparent dim purple small, clever remarkably well-dressed strange, hulking strange, amorphous own ominous transparent dark pale, sardonic slow dark clear, colored own nonexistent grotesque, misshapen bright, icy comfortable, dark dark fiery deep blind terrible double own laden huge cool great, concrete merest fleeting cruel and jagged ominous, black vague, frightening grim heavy cool, compassionate strangely solid total black dark, stark dark barren dark, unrecognizable green lilac shy, furtive protective dark dour, humorless eerie brown faint, mad creepy dark long, late-afternoon huge, eerie rough, incomplete biggest, darkest lithe, sinuous clear, bluish own imperishable transparent bluish mournful blue familiar curved vague, unsubstantial dark, indefinite slight undulating weak, faint soft, a�rial awful and desolate pale, listless tattered, unkempt cool and heavy faint radiant seldom less furtive black false and ruinous humble, timid own morose thy scant sure, thy comparatively faint awfully tall tiny, faint fleeting dark dark electric slight indefinable veritable chinese slinky, black dark, gruesome beautiful luminous lean, freckled quiet purple big and gentle wide grey faint, dark poor, pale vague black rugged and uneven dark and undefined own smart huge grotesque dull rich great sepulchral lazy little unnaturally dark sinewy black once towering faint dark deadly black high and deep dim, pale great dense dark broad sharp black blacker black and dusty familiar and loving silent brown slim, muscular huge, angular white and bloody barbed black lithe, tall long sinister soft, grateful poor crumpled own venomous dull, dismal black, terrible black oblique full sharp vain and fleeting enormous soft thin, hazy unseen and unsuspected deep, dreadful silent, morose black featureless dim, black own identical deep, monotonous grotesquely misshapen dim, vast long mauve thy fleeting vaguely troubled vague and awful thy gloomy vague gray clearly recognizable long, grotesque dark, huge long urgent deep and startling deep and moody stark, dark not-quite-real deep and continual peculiar and unpleasant vast serpentine unnaturally swollen gorgeous blond constant, unseen vaguely disagreeable funny, delightful almost perceptible dark, voluminous huge, vague little slight pale, gray purple dark various and variable dark hulking fuzzy grey silent, faithful same pervasive lean sharp chilly black thick, ominous deep and impenetrable strange, towering great refreshing great lilac

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Words to Describe shadow

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "shadow" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "shadow" are: probable, possible, bloated sundial, pallid shrunken, vast, grotesque, and dark tense. There are 995 other words to describe shadow listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe shadow 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, "shadow" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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