Describing Wordsfor Shadows

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Here are some adjectives for shadows: probable, possible, bloated sundial, intriguing dark, pallid shrunken, long clear-cut, vast, grotesque, foolish incorporeal, vain mundane, striking curious, distant, spidery, dark tense, disturbing long, stark and distant, long indistinct, slightest slight, gray, furtive, unfilled black, strangely substantial, dusky deep, false sonic, sinister, fascinating, trusting, ragged, gray abhorrent, down queer, vague contorted, face-to-face, dim, indistinct, silvery, stark, blinding, hence horrible, insubstantial, mere. You can get the definitions of these shadows adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to shadows (and find more here).

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Words to Describe shadows

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

probable, possible bloated sundial intriguing dark pallid shrunken long clear-cut vast, grotesque foolish incorporeal vain mundane striking curious distant, spidery dark tense disturbing long stark and distant long indistinct slightest slight gray, furtive unfilled black strangely substantial dusky deep false sonic sinister, fascinating trusting, ragged gray abhorrent down queer vague contorted face-to-face, dim indistinct, silvery
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stark, blinding hence horrible insubstantial, mere fitful phantom stark, harsh sinuous low penum-bral stolid dark longer penum-bral dead, past perhaps telltale insignificant and grotesque new, umbral nightmarishly long odd misshapen vast, quick mournful mysterious again ancient vain and portentous gloomy, shapeless fainter or deeper faint and somewhat uncertain broad and disproportionate vain voiceless immediately deep thin, emphatic many deepest more, familiar intensely annoying multiple and deceptive lovely suggestive jumpy black particularly high and deep later grotesque wrong, supple brutish black gross, startling strange, dappled vague, unidentifiable distinct tiny deep, reddish military and grotesque ponderous and ever-present grimly black queer, longish bulky, fearful long spectral fleeting, vague dour and frightening sudden, thy staggeringly brief dappled deep airily cavernous conceivable, faintest mother-of-pearl, colored mysterious and still darker dusky, noiseless ominous, indistinct ever-changing and monstrous slim, elusive already long and purple generally wedge-shaped somber, haunting monstrous, anthropomorphic worthless dark faintest, palest quieter, colder tall, ever-present false, wild abysmally deep dark and unspeakably sad faint, sooty thin and deficient pallid, shrunken long, mauve flat superficial dim fast-moving broad gigantic huge amorous mere darker hard fantastic weird and gigantic deeper, meaner slight palpable jealous woodland shaven, gaunt and pallid mere effete kinder dark fro grim ineffectual pale strange, misleading discreetly sinister busy but silent old-fashioned, unsubstantial sedate and impressive dim and poor deep and somnolent vast serpentine small, darker rich unexplored bold and colossal white and motionless great deformed grotesque misshapen monstrous shapeless long sonic jagged, ominous tall, stealthy harsh twin black breathless smudged purple doubtful, massive eerie, sharp squat, uncouth permanent, arbitrary menacing, moonlit other, vague shapeless, massive other, faceless secret, intriguing vertical striped stout, disapproving odd, dim deformed, dark pale, grotesque flat, coloured present, murky shy blond faint, multiple dim, darkling red, grotesque vague but undisturbed deep, dappled permanent colored double, divergent monstrous geometrical thaumatropically grotesque refreshing dark long, grey and blue unrelieved, unbroken dense nighttime faint, swarthy least dim broad and dense consequent warm tall, gray-blue alert and ravenous fateful gray real, huge solemn, grotesque dense, deceptive erratic shapeless vagrant and unprofitable broad and almost impervious immense and diaphanous pale, intangible absolutely black and striking luminous and mysterious silent flat dark and impossible sparse, bluish fleetest and most momentary opaque and fantastical beguiling purple gigantic and ill-defined inexplicable contradictory weird gargantuan bluish or blue-green pale fugitive vague, tremendous lofty, soft black and almost shapeless sinister and ever present voiceless and noiseless lean, gigantic pale, delicate and sensitive black, well-defined jagged, purple gray, phantom faintest, little mysterious tricky sinister grotesque dark and distinct luminous, haunting wide and cool haunting luminous dank, cool particularly scary hot, uneasy vaguely distinguishable awkward, angular thin, rumpled long amorphous curved bright elsewhere long shapeless pale silent, predatory long, early-morning smaller, fleeting long grotesque sunken, dark vast dense dead, distant long, murky faintest grey faint, indefinite lacy, golden hairy, sputtering vague unrecognizable almost nocturnal suddenly vocal just dappled wide, diamond-shaped morose and miserable regular rectangular hot deep owing wild lean quick eerie, wispy broad, fast-moving soft spiked still uncomplaining deepest, farthest irritating and persistent once queer cryptic and ominous impenetrable, murky cold, towering ghostly weak equally feathery obviously fat and lazy deep, deceptive obviously fat complete and unrelenting vague moonlit alluring, dangerous everlasting and invincible darker, unseen odious, rectangular black and horrific brief, unspecified small but dark just maddening warm, semicircular coaxing long loathsome, black eerie, intricate long freakish huge, elliptical grotesque, sentient dim bulky worryingly broad faint internal slinky grey nebulous leaden tall spidery fuzzy rectangular slender additional dim and illusive vague, telltale weak, fitful sharp and proper long late-afternoon tenuous, malignant crisp, long thick and strangely solid overly black oddly clotted odd, circular huge stark long and utterly black absurdly cool ominous ochre indeed gigantic fractionally darker particularly dense and bulky distant, monstrous black collective merely pale savage, loyal awkward, impenetrable falsely protective cool lilac brave, wan mysterious fascinating cold, masterful rapid, restless deepest imaginable fantastic long same all-knowing cruel misshapen ghostly animate spontaneous purple composite, masculine striking odd white, impending suddenly dim preternatural, colossal fuzzy, triple huge, unfathomable brown and deeper spectral, haunting closer, smudged unessential and vain huge and far-flung else unessential and vain thick and misshapen else unessential brief hysterical black or mere dense hungry intangible and sinister grotesquely gigantic obscure and wan broad frosty undulating and ever-increasing dusky thick dense, undulating and ever-increasing cool broad thinnest phantom sombre and depressing deep but only momentary annoying brown vague and cavernous sharp and expressive clean-cut greenish black, awkward amber purple enormous, grotesque mystical gray long and greenish certain, refreshing green, sidelong majestic velvety green sidelong useless and persistent brown and darker benign, unforgettable mysterious and penetrating single, fugitive sparse vernal awful, shapeless broad and pleasing gigantic ribbed ugly gloomy wan meek innumerable ghostlike dreary and wicked shapeless, sinister implacable sweet unexplained mysterious soft, momentary shapeless, interminable gigantic elusive vague, radial broad or delicate black, mile-long deep, broad or delicate fantastic leafy freakish and deceptive exquisitely soft and indefinite vast well-known warm and always luminous poisonous, fateful merely ill-defined faintest preliminary grotesque enigmatical unbroken and constant fantastic but oddly human empty, fleeting dim stygian gloomy, malicious strange and often horrible motionless recumbent softest and most grateful densest and most persistent black uncanny weird and jagged hostile baleful lurid and baleful broad imminent baleful, imminent doubtful and fleeting prim and clear-cut aimless dark formal, unsubstantial visionary, spectral slight, irrepressible silent and colored curious, black majestic and guilty vague harmonious broad, opaque strong, leafy pathetic purple obscure greenish definite but not deep scant but heavy mystic ancestral natural and undiminished abortive, anomalous squat, active vague and colored swart and portentous grotesque actual protective plausible clean-cut, black blacker, sharper unaccustomed deep fearful crimson sinister, intangible special but not invariable gross misshapen sombre but graceful perhaps unreal gray weird spare, intricate invisible but abiding motionless lilac compact, circular vague opposite great, bluish intangible green startling, gloomy dense changeable terrible unsuspected transparent and still luminous unswerving black slim bluish big, portentous ethnological false angular greenish long and quizzical dark blended dark, substantial meaningless, distant preposterous, mere real and reflective many and dense painful momentary funny lilac ominous, hideous nearest and darkest darkest and cruelest silent and blissful haunting, fleeting long undefined black, clean-cut gaunt, fantastic feeble, voiceless cruelly sorrowful faint chinese elfin exquisite mysterious and far-reaching numerous silent own moonlit peculiarly helpless and insignificant mellow, solemn gay but unsubstantial vast symmetric thin dim wide-winged, noiseless darkest and most solemn indistinct, gigantic variable golden everywhere perpendicular sparse wintry nameless but stubborn restless, serpentine broad, black and hopeless colossal broad soft, three-cornered actual but mere usually perplexing dingy and unclean clear and life-like infallible, divergent dark, bloodless rather symbolical imperfect, uncertain naked and pathetic deep deceitful visible and malicious voiceless, eternal thereby weird slight and somehow wistful wild spidery broader and blacker faint unreal single hateful curious, dusky illuminating blackest pale, suggestive low and very swift faint and awkward fleeting, puzzling longer unsubstantial deep multi-colored deep grotesque perfect or darker diaphanous, luminous heavy and abiding fantastic, indistinct dumb, vast sufficient unpleasant brighter and sharper lifeless, unkind faint unsatisfactory long dark-gray hazy and dubious dim bovine mere noiseless vile, purple squared, black clean-cut, intense faint and pathetic grotesque and lurid fortunate dark faint boreal vague eerie down uncouth sudden unexplainable miserable, washed-out frightful, inarticulate aimlessly restless portentous, terrific incorporeal inanimate icy, irrevocable grotesque, incongruous polite, unresponsive own portentous dark and grotesque gray and turquoise dreary and darkling unsubstantial legal deep and appalling majestic, colossal oppressive, disheartening unnecessarily deep and sombre ever-present but indefinable fitful and fanciful phenomenal and imperfect soft, telltale deeper and colder therefore huge holy merciful invisible and mystic sordid and ridiculous dim and transitory airy and subtle majestic colossal away sullen man-made, daytime sudden thy mid darkest cool, far-off timorous fleeting grey, relentless grotesque and fitful upward weird deeper grey unwholesome, sordid black misleading fantastic, motionless cool, alluring sharp, immovable dim but prophetic indistinct historical overhead, cool ago deep oblique grey dangerous sweet sure, cool fleeting, unsubstantial impure or gloomy other, simple dank, perennial visible and intangible grey, ghostlike sombre, restive awfully ancient deeper and queerer strange monstrous hushed green black, more stark, sharp smaller, black tall stern eerie pink bloated, misshapen other noiseless deep, predawn eerie scarlet peculiarly malign scarlet and magenta blue woodland gaunt and towering great, fantastic long, lacy extremely talkative long, grotesque slim slow suitably demonic great streamlined long, indistinct lumpier vague, purple greatest, largest huge and silent small fleeting long, deceptive wan, pallid soft, undefined inert, cold-blooded dim early-morning sombre and angry deep moody pleasing and restful long, sparse cold and repugnant already blue vague, slow-moving harsh, long fleeting, dark furtive dark mysterious inexplicable black and striking luminous haunting always sombre least dark pale, dumb large and indistinct empty vain large, indefinite tall bluish noble oriental mysterious, eerie narrow fantastic long pyramidal just barren long, fantastic dark spherical slim blonde slow, vague constant dark sunken and blue deep, sombre friendly dark sharpest and deepest thick mauve nearly unchanged huge uneven faint professional thin spectral calm, motionless ancient and ancestral deeper and blacker dank cool vague, ragged brown and olive-green weird, ghostlike faint, ambiguous huge and fantastic faint, motionless gray and somber amazingly lifelike cool, transparent motionless, squat long fantastic gray, anthropomorphic restless dark broad and dark huge, amorphous black misshapen deep rectangular unknown black thick and gloomy momentary black ghostly red constant, undeclared erly black vaguely elliptical large faceless welcome, cool closer, dark and deranged menacing blue gaunt, clean dim, lumpy complex purple appreciably heavy long, stark frosted-coal dull blue-green haggard grey dark, stippled small and tattered deep monochromatic gangling human wild, convulsive past, brief eerie monstrous gaunt and skeletal lazy late-afternoon great, frightening long, late-afternoon other, lumpier various fleeting faintly criminal black, fleeting thin indistinguishable bleak and blank silent, darker long, creepy swift, iridescent soft, animate powerless and angry dark, fleeting equally powerless and angry wild belligerent vast, malevolent next, black monstrous and antic fleeting gray silent, lethal same vulture-like terrible, invasive strange, colored swift, active overhead and dark strange, movable softly translucent high-echelon and very effective homicidal, independent-minded angry, disapproving dense blue-black dark, tacky dense, bloody deep, alluring sharp ornamental boisterous and single-minded overhead, dark extremely boisterous and single-minded curious, craggy extremely boisterous thick, unnatural black anthropomorphic misty grey furtive, ragged black useful vast, onrushing abrupt green queerly unpleasant cool sterile slow trapezoidal contorted, confusing big loyal tense black brief but very human open and blackest watchful, hungry stark and jagged stolid and expressionless insistent sinuous mazingly lifelike feathery tropical invisible unmistakable abruptly frantic vibrant colored impenetrable, purple-black long, wide-shouldered festival grim best and most innocuous distinct cold black, spread-out sooty, mid-afternoon tight, tangled larger, fleeting gray-blue, two-dimensional clearly black oblong, darker deep, alarming less but sinister wickedly dark scintillating transparent ast strange eerie, pallid visible but tall beautiful, disturbing weird multicolored gaunt and fragile mentally desperate unnoticed black darkly malevolent queer, tricky swift undulating long but delicate white and coal-black deepest and thickest occasional mother-of-pearl sharp black-and-white long and single peculiar, inconsistent broad penumbral dreamy, pliant silent, golden long and similar ever-present gray weird, frightening brief but unsettling angular purple totally dispensable evil elfin enormous and glassy east huge thin fuzzy clumsy staggering abruptly willful same burned-out alike indistinct pale, anemic simply darker vast feathered ol infinite unreal, gigantic malign, equivocal dimmer gray implacable furtive hulking, thick just purple distinctly dark overhead, monstrous true conical eerie, grotesque hulking lifeless grotesque, disembodied deep nocturnal vague colored sepia dappled faint and fuzzy silent massive long, pastel visible, black remote troubling abruptly hostile hulking eight-foot warm, mysterious malign everlasting dark guilty impenetrable, improbable silent purple stark vertical inexplicable, insubstantial cold, pervasive immense, catlike paltry, shapeless longest southern invisible gray sinuous, rusty firmer, thicker forward tremendous slimly aristocratic indistinct, mere indistinct but sinister filthy, permanent massive, sleek striking weird dense and bulky inaugural australian bulky, disapproving stark, unreal vaguely beloved warm and promising bare faint diffuse and enormous filthy filthy deeper, cool vague, horizontal distant undersea hideous, dark forth seductive comfortingly masculine past, wedge-shaped long sundial indelible, glassy fleeting triangular glossy, indelible unpredictable, savage creepily human smaller but still substantial weaker, faceless slim, humble ugly dormant fantastically thin featureless white-clad faint and misleading black, sinewy closer, solitary lumbering dark dim leggy crystal, furious silent, distressed sinister, impossible ambiguous multiple legion, pale and silent boxy, earth-colored mindless, bloodthirsty slightly corporeal clear, skinny sixth black tempting cool invisible numinous long, perplexing anxious orange mere contorted menacing angular peaceful, neutral dark-gray monochrome cool horizontal distinctive corresponding feminine dark stupid regular purple conspiratorial towering, impossible overhead, vague black, hard-edged barren, notional convex, black always feminine bluish crooked portentous, mysterious slight and transparent flat, bluish black thirty-foot deep alluring diminutive and misty black and strange telltale dial picturesque and happy grave perplexed ago dark dim massive dim monastic dark and majestic sombre foreign terrible second extinct german massive conservative weird, ever-changing dim lilac dim surprising huge conic awful and gigantic ideal, beloved blue and dusky intangible permanent deep neutral bulky, honest deep, darker black, brief faint and ill-defined cold, mysterious dimly splendid dumb, fleeting gray, graceful inevitable fleeting soft and indefinite gigantic uncouth always luminous delicate luminous ther solemn

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Words to Describe shadows

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "shadows" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "shadows" are: probable, possible, bloated sundial, intriguing dark, pallid shrunken, and long clear-cut. There are 992 other words to describe shadows listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe shadows 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, "shadows" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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.

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