Describing Wordsfor Silence

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Here are some adjectives for silence: sullen and ominous, incorruptible, unchanging, rather christ-like, aloof and rather christ-like, immensely cold and savage, immensely cold, verbal but not emotional, sudden, unquiet, thick, busy, heavy and thoughtful, short, heavy and thoughtful, mutual, awkward, dead, grim, queer and incongruous, short, rebellious, wonderful hushed, east and eventual, painful, profound, absolute, introspective, oddly companionable, moody and apprehensive, terrific utter, utter, glacial, awful stealthy, again dead, dead, weird, nearly morose, busy, reflective, tense and almost palpable, sullen, deliberate. You can get the definitions of these silence adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to silence (and find more here).

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Words to Describe silence

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

sullen and ominous incorruptible, unchanging rather christ-like aloof and rather christ-like immensely cold and savage immensely cold verbal but not emotional sudden, unquiet thick, busy heavy and thoughtful short, heavy and thoughtful mutual, awkward dead, grim queer and incongruous short, rebellious wonderful hushed east and eventual painful, profound absolute, introspective oddly companionable moody and apprehensive terrific utter utter, glacial awful stealthy
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again dead dead, weird nearly morose busy, reflective tense and almost palpable sullen, deliberate usual, sleepy profound and ominous icy, disapproving pure dreamy dumb and awful eerie, perfect deep unnatural companionable, comfortable oppressive, watchful slow and arrogant abrupt and potent smooth and ominous uneasy weary long edgy terrible simian unaccustomed, troubled busy, thick pale and awful cold, irksome respectful, obstinate deep and discreet mournful and oppressive wondrously heavy abrupt and profound total, sodden oppressive bulky awful, utter profound, crystalline short, interminable lovely breathless once inner tense, impressive long and dead short, resentful disturbing utter momentary, thunderous eloquent disapproving profound and drawn-out dead and awesome massive, unbearable utter undisturbed atypical tongue-tied past shameful appalling and excessive former motionless mid dreamy unbroken and ominous gloomy and rather guilty deep, woeful absolute, continual longer profound intense, awful sudden, dead tense, expectant profound cloistral complete communicative spider-traditional great, tense profound and dreadful double moonlit down centuries-old long and increasingly disturbing former preternatural utter and almost breathless placid and busy languid, baffling timeless, hypnotic clenched, arduous perfidious and guilty frightening such grateful, depressed queer, oppressive pallid, disquieting sudden surreal her-heal nearly reverential deep expectant total telepathic odd anticipatory sudden but momentary melodramatic and self-indulgent deep moss-covered great frigid absolute, breathless awesome and abiding short but profound sudden, frigid unbroken stony hush and coy great submissive always rigorous short but thoughtful still uninterrupted cold and ominous none--only expressive inquisitive, significant presently absolute solemn momentary wakeful, mournful solemn and utter long, absolute heavy and ominous usual edgy rather expectant big gusty blank, ominous sudden motionless traditional meditative long, long-distance guilty, nervous em><em>total, awesome em><em>total familiar, sweltering dark, ageless dead, unnatural deep and depressing complete and stony replete and meditative sudden, expectant heavy, anticipatory portentous and dreary sudden, unnatural vast, untouchable mutually expectant tense, heavy great, breathless respectful and merciful vast, insupportable deep attentive stony and expressionless terrible impervious short but very uncomfortable polite frosty complete, awesome long, infuriating leaden, self-important huge profound sepulchral, nerve-racking humid oppressive morose and intense further sullen utter, eerie otherwise eerie sudden, velvety hot, hushed brief, profound angry and depressed faintly envious protracted and suspicious brief and rather uncomfortable nasty uncanny blank, triumphant intense absolute deep and embarrassing profound and secretive tangible, white reverential and mysterious appreciable interval sometimes hushed acute, terrible eloquent and embarrassing solemn, ominous solemn oppressive former moody dead expectant dead, ominous decorous sympathetic horrible, tense supercilious and impatient deep, dear usually unsocial dull and death-like dissatisfied and even resentful unending malevolent [_universal oppressive, solemn vast and undisputed much degrading deadly cold and awful stolid but not unsympathetic weary but good-natured thy dogmatical later profound utter, solemn therefore deepest swift but cordial quiet and bitter brief but entire [universal long and obdurate dead and stern proud and indifferent occasional disapproving comparative divine awful and momentary dead historical tense, tragic grim and impenetrable quiet and breathless blank noncommittal solemn, unbroken perspiring and anguished abrupt unhappy utter and treacherous uncomplaining and inscrutable vast staid grim, wrathful stolid respectable steady but almost breathless listless and pervasive queer, protracted painful, significant [_general, sudden remarkable, impressive recent, undeclared deep previous sudden, clean-cut possible, deeper long companionable sudden dead familiar, despairing incessant, nerve-racking absolute, dead long pregnant impressive silent new ominous strange, miserable dead and ominous otherwise primeval tense and rigid tribological deep, death-like sudden, tense utter deep watchful, alert clearly depressed profound and clearly depressed protracted and ominous hitherto deep thoughtful and troubled short, mournful brief, distressed vast, vacuous peculiarly eerie brittle, brittle preliminary sulky tremendous and natural long and faintly uneasy profound, ambiguous unnervingly long and thoughtful rapt and uninterrupted suddenly neutral respectful and interested dramatic, sudden glum, dull private and lengthy considerable stark calm and hushed holy calm and hushed decorous and frightful general awkward awkward and dumbfounded terrible hushed stagnant, heavy grim, troubled long, mutual perfect, impenetrable absolute, tomblike dense and anticipatory remarkably uneasy sudden terror-stricken denly hostile pure, profound stiff and unbroken ominous, eerie dearly troubled curiously leaden relative telepathic interminable, incessant immediate and respectful savage, urgent prudent and popular strange, infinite momentary, contemplative sudden, uneasy quite communicative absolute, fearful grim, repressive leaden, predawn dead, intense new, muffled rapt contemplative pearly pre-dawn self-imposed absolute hushed, florid small but thoroughly awkward universal and dead comparative and apparently companionable apparently companionable heavy, infinite pregnant, tense brief but rather curious otherwise profound rare and honest dim steady heavily textured textured, localized dark and worrisome introspective and tactical sympathetic, contemplative extremely total short, portentous total, sulky total, horrible sudden tomblike calm, utter almost companionable sudden weighty much and yet more grave and pertinent dead underground appallingly noble awful hostile blankly thoughtful brown and blissful absolute and embarrassing benign and acceptable pagential heavy tense respectful, total short and somewhat awkward terrible, oppressive odd, equivocal strangely conscious dead and awful dead and sullen total and somewhat dreary intense dead long and somewhat ominous next faithful intolerable, unreal sullen sacred abrupt and numbing usual ghostlike stony but anxious great and frigid discreet and loyal eternal and white brief but apparently pointless sudden fearsome unbroken eloquent motionless and painful glacial and absent-minded doleful and universal usual menacing awkward solemn grey and sacred immediate dead subtle, dead ominous breathless dreadful, unresponsive strange, unbroken solemn, moody strange, absolute curious, dreadful dismal, formidable ominous, muffled mad, resentful vastly spiritual intense, expectant grim and sanctimonious blank, guilty dead, terrible sullen and dreadful curious portentous decorous and complete ominous and expressive absolute, disconcerting breathless and highly satisfactory approval and once more deliberate, stony brief, absolute electric, pregnant tense bleak wise and disdainful profound and sad profound, oppressive fearful, death-like perfect, death-like oddest guilty absolute and appreciative peaceful and wistful deep and apparently uninterested intense sultry blank, dense again portentous portentously significant perfect solemn meditative and painful sudden and decorous brief and portentous muffled, ominous impotent and awful merciless, unsympathetic singular and almost breathless painful and reverential obstinate punitive rigid and solemn dark, mindful gloomy and oppressed dreadful and utter continuous voluntary discreet and laudable queer and instantaneous conscious, well-bred dead and funereal ominous and steadfast sullen and almost unbroken gloomy and torpid moody and supercilious heavy and breathless profound and obviously intentional savage, heavy thereupon complete long and awkward long, uncomfortable perfectly dead short, pregnant current total deep, predawn tense and expectant blank inner eerie mental again absolute sudden tense long and uncomfortable brief, uncomfortable dank, dismal short, uncomfortable long, expectant fearful, sullen long and embarrassing forlorn solitary breathless, stony nice uncomfortable black, moody grimly sullen rigid, absolute awful and deep dreadful, empty eerie total profound and impressive deep breathless brief and profound bare affirmative long and uneasy sudden, eerie particularly wary long, awkward long uncomfortable brief, tense same moody momentary inner queer, blank solemn empty long and pregnant now comparative complete and restful long oppressive long, tense timid and fearful distinctly awkward sudden, profound sudden eerie death-like long and significant growingly grim lengthy but companionable tense, heart-pounding stubborn and hostile profound and eerie eerie, heavy unspeakable violent clearly emotional tense and utter peaceful, numb brief, gloomy brief uncomfortable absolute, uncharacteristic grim do-or-die lofty and magisterial sudden relative abrupt and very nervous thick uneasy shocking, eerie thick, timeless long and very dead dead and despairing blissfully peaceful prim tense awkward, mutual sudden and reverent slightly murderous now utter peaceful, hateful absolute, respectful polite, expressionless desperate, helpless long and brittle small and sullen thick, horrific thoughtful and rather gloomy odd, stunning solemnly conscious utter, calm hideous, electric profound and sullen impressive and almost eerie cold and total hushed and unimaginable continually creepy deep and cautious short bemused hesitant, doubtful abrupt and unusual sudden and nerve-racking single, appalling profound, magical humble, joyous oppressive, expectant general glum ominous light-headed forth incomplete somewhat broody stolid, watchful wholly attentive grim and defiant mournful and solitary sharp, absolute tense, anticipatory long and increasingly heavy baked and heavy momentary, stringent sudden, fraught dry, cloying calm and outer sunny air-conditioned intense but comfortable total, sullen odd, cool fragrant silken misty, windless profound and rather gloomy tense unnatural hushed, cathedral profound and fairly lengthy increasingly eerie long and rather uncomfortable familiar implacable gentle, impartial awful, disconcerting stubborn and unbroken cosy, uninterrupted grim and ominous religious, windless utter, unbroken long, embarrassing terrible numbing normal unbroken brief, blank long but tranquil brief and heavy habitual and impervious abrupt, uncomfortable abruptly total oddly private unpleasantly thoughtful sodden, sombre traditional hushed total and uncanny strict electronic obstinate and expensive long worrisome tight and terrible wide and sultry long little-girl eerie, complete least, audio polite but stolid bright shuttered listless dreary complete and attentive delicious, thoughtful uncharacteristic, contemplative tense primitive sullen or fearful lengthy and cautious queerly oppressive sudden and eerie alternate grim tight motionless deep uncaring strong and vacant complete, blinking again profound deep, post-midnight weighty, uncomfortable empty, utter heavy, expectant bleak near-total dead unbroken grim and gruff sullen, sacred anxious preliminary wide and appalling solemn and perfect divine and uncomplaining warm and loathsome uneasy and pregnant consistently acute absolute, horrible absolute and inconceivable profound and inviolable gloomy and awkward everywhere golden radiant, baffling stubborn and somber stony, white long, unaccountable mournful and expressive heavy, agonizing interesting but attentive unbroken and often contemptuous long, inexcusable dead and disquieting similar cautious morose, stupid heavy, foggy grave but attentive deep, attentive dense oppressive eloquent and mendacious dumb and empty eternal, unbroken dead and gloomy perfect and primitive lastly utter touchy or ungracious profound and almost mysterious soon perfect and uninterrupted grim, exalted horrible grand water--total profound nocturnal weak, physical ominous, loud absolute and religious everywhere terrible neutral and diplomatic lowest respectful commonplace, unattainable great, ruthless deepest nocturnal modest but easy careless or premeditated obscure and alarming divinely opportune responsive, receptive oppressive, electrical submissive, contrite oppressive, painful unexpected, oppressive sulky or sarcastic sympathetic and awful immense simian moody, contemptuous perilously sweet gay, grim unaccountable and most perplexing abashed native slack, luxurious profound and motionless pregnant and stormy profound enormous profound and total maddening, spectral black, sulky internal and mystical tragic, tremendous respectful and timorous profound, conventual grimly impotent absolute and unbroken horrible, warm becomingly mysterious uncomfortable, mutual significant disappointing impenetrable and unkind sad profound perfect mystical long slow-growing stern and portentous appreciative and envious obdurate, contemptuous masterful excellent uncertain and discreet awful, spectral stately sudden sullen and awful sheepish and indifferent malevolent and impotent tense and anguished little, complete unending, wide overwhelming, crafty ominous and pregnant profound and numbing steadfast and unbreakable breathless, uncolored momentary and terrible obstinate, good-natured long and observant anxious and disastrous mysterious calm ominous, sullen gloomy and impassive receptive but gloomy original frigid industrious and sarcastic divine green sudden reverent scornful, compassionate perfect and refreshing practically petrified temporary and expectant sudden and unbroken abashed sudden never perfect or deep olympian and rather ominous grimly impressive dreadful mysterious serene, abstracted tense, unbearable fruitful, uplifting sudden and thoughtful awful and almost portentous eager and pathetic obstinate and scornful apparently unrelieved hitherto admirable barbaric and mysterious curious and oppressive short hushed quite sepulchral longer entire quite unbroken strange, complacent vast, wondrous ghastly musical sullen and refractory placid and perpetual unusually long and thoughtful moody glaring brief but electric vague, sociable complete, tremendous unbroken and absolute obstinate and ambiguous comical and uncomfortable hot and conscious grisly deep mid deep terrible and most unusual customary drowsy ominous dreadful perfectly tense obscure abysmal breathless expectant attentive and suspicious petrified and indignant soothingly sepulchral ominous, suspicious awful, strict contrary deep mysterious and somber decent after-dinner oppressive, inexplicable perhaps judicious heavy inexplicable gloomy dead dead and almost eerie great and death-like alert and then deep dense, expectant dull, expectant dead and breathless boorish awkward dead, sick impassive, sullen wide, unusual greedily receptive glum, sulky dense and seemingly impenetrable significant and peculiar altogether obstinate numb and desolate mysterious desperate unusual, unaccountable complete and reverent stubborn sullen general fearful breathless and stupefying despairing, motionless demure and absolute hushed and loving chief, profound obstinate, ominous stony and unbroken dreadful inquisitive dumb, aqueous simple obstinate calm, sullen determinedly passive tropical breathless everywhere profound solemnly respectful ominous and aristocratic free intimate absolute and omnipresent eloquent brutal portentous expectant otherwise deep gentle inexorable dense, nerve-racking sound--eternal sympathetic, wistful usual rapt profound woodland sentimental and even maudlin pitiless and awful anxious wistful hushed, complete seeming sullen solemnly ludicrous odd, intuitive extraordinary breathless smilingly respectful curious and rather horrible italian, such sullen contemptuous intense attentive meditative sombre afterwards complete watchful, unbroken disconcerting, uneasy decorous and gloomy dead, unbroken obedient but most happy utter, breathless awkward and expectant painful, awkward and expectant painful and hostile grim, persistent heretofore marvelous momentary, dead moody, suspicious delicious, tongue-tied momentary tense furtive and guilty undisturbed, unbroken restful and wonderful awful pregnant awkward, troubled intense unbroken sudden, grievous sullen and invincible deep and masterful dead polar philosophic and sceptical truly philosophic and sceptical grim and watchful almost painful and impressive profound immemorial rigid, long inexorable hypnotic profound and depressing brief but curiously intense dreadful, deliberate happy and hallowed universal, breathless boundless, horrible frigid and uneasy immovable and breathless well-managed and illuminating authoritative, relentless unconvinced and mutinous solemn, sullen and ominous gloomy and spiritless malignant, heartless again oppressive deterrant, awesome deterrant simple stolid universal and awe-inspiring expectant but outwardly placid snug, celestial extreme, extreme careful, dead complete and somewhat unnatural exceptionally alert and intelligent sombre, oppressive dazed, despairing unbroken, homesick life-long, heroic muffled heavy complete, terrible utmost deathless dead, absolute breathless awful white, sacramental present death-like serene, comfortable everywhere sad deep, terror-stricken moody and oppressive sad, moody characteristically stubborn dead, wonderful immediately dead dead, solemn cold insufferable deep, chaste strange, companionable miserable, despairing gracious, expressive contemplative and awkward great fateful weak, quiet intense and unbroken sometimes discreet sullen morbid thick tangible sandy sticky solitary and mournful uneasy, solemn awful, perspiring sober peaceful large uncanny hopelessly wrathful inexplicable and mysterious brief but disdainful blank uncomfortable grim and negative sullen, appalling endless, oppressive complete and decorous grotesque and motionless apprehensive and gloomy painful and too eloquent sudden and quite inexplicable heavy, momentous amiable absent frightful and gloomy calm and beatific breathless but momentary impressive but momentary awful funereal utter lifeless disquieting and ominous

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Words to Describe silence

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "silence" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "silence" are: sullen and ominous, incorruptible, unchanging, rather christ-like, aloof and rather christ-like, and immensely cold and savage. There are 994 other words to describe silence listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe silence 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, "silence" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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