Describing Words
examples:
nose,
winter,
blue eyes,
woman
Here are some adjectives for surprise. You can get the definitions of these adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to surprise (and find more here).
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Words to Describe surprise
Below is a list of describing words for surprise. 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 surprise:
stunning dramatic unforeseen and unpleasant eloquent unfinished totally unexpected and unwelcome faintly pleasing mute and inactive wholly generous startling original faint elated apparently deep and honest protracted fatal new nasty nasty, pointless stupendous, terminal dangerous tactical animated and undefined whole and indignant delicate and joyful utter, flabbergasted dim, intellectual extreme and unaffected black and stupid evident and involuntary complete and disagreeable infinite and grateful enormous and scornful faint and fastidious blank and complete involuntary, sensual once-in-a-lifetime, wonderful newer and minor frank and quick obvious pleasant shocking but very welcome never-ending little entirely phony gentle mock angry, small admiral feigned beverly feigned illuminating and stunning earlier disagreeable natural, adequate perfectly well-mannered feigned indignant poorly feigned unaccountable, exciting particular and shocking divinely stupid big and destructive considerable and disconcerting mute and ungovernable acute and pained slowly intense slowly interested great and irritating somewhat justifiable final, shocking mere dynamical positively indignant comic stolid fresh agreeable fugitive dainty helpless angry dim and superficial utter and astounding exceedingly delightful vast, numbing tal feigned sure, considerable sudden pained quite stunning perpetual joyous utter, blinking abstractly distant vast and abstractly distant total, dumb shy and shameless bunch-total and complete bunch-total soft and glad ><b>technological again mild doubly irritating vague contemptuous large, comic haggard, wretched bleary, distant interesting and devastating intense and exciting similar immense initial uneasy brief, bleary actually momentary total and most unwelcome complete and most unpleasant hitherto unbelievable sheer stunning mild, benign timid but intense extraordinary and unwelcome new and unthinkable continually exciting broad and inexplicable instantaneous mild self-betrayal blank extremely vacant successful, effective armenian more mild and mute intense, joyful blank and sleepy breathless and perfectly unaffected remarkable or exciting sudden and haughty expressive silent frank and unsympathetic comic and quaint pained and completely ludicrous mutual and embarrassing indifferent mild faint, careless unheralded and wonderful pleasing, mild unheard-of, treacherous vague and distressing ordinary, disagreeable comically feigned possibly contemptuous exuberantly glad mild but ever-increasing indignant and haughty mild or acute well-bred formal sudden, pained wholly sorrowful rare, glad mild and impersonal perceptibly pale indeed sickening famous matutinal gloomy and inquisitive angry and almost ludicrous sublimely sweet new and glad unwelcome and startling certain ashamed momentary slight timid, glad wrathful, contemptuous sudden, terror-stricken honest but pained great but very happy sufficiently tremendous wrathful righteous dizzying, joyous rare and singularly pleasing successively profound neat and wonderful splendid and pleasant real and pleasurable fenced and feigned coy and feigned faint but well-bred wistful, young painful and stupefying blatant, boyish entirely premeditated polite and interested intense, glad blank but indulgent startling and pleasurable wide-eyed mock sad, impersonal passive and somewhat bovine contemptuous or indignant such wide-eyed solemn and strange feigned intense great and unwelcome immense and tangled brilliant and sudden delicate and ironic great and agreeable flattering and agreeable mild and good-humored exciting equal just mild great and pleasant mild but genuine slow, tremendous least major excellent burlesque patently fake great and pleasing vague, sad distinct and very pleasant guilty but defiant strange, spectacular damned nastiest blue joyful obviously feigned biggest and most welcome vast unfocused nasty and possibly fatal spectacular erotic honest, obvious always disquieting infrequent but always disquieting loud australian initial furious nearly unnoticed great and unbelievable belial feigned blind but contemptuous totally dumb total, shocking wonderfal startling and nasty genuine but angry final, horrific occasional positive original hydrographical complete, shocking potential technical maximum strategic long-held secret excellent, big altogether mock pleasant and very alluring lily feigned maximum tactical feigned slight plurally nasty pleasant and unanticipated complete and unpleasant completely genuine approval and mild unpleasant and shocking inarticulate, aggressive inadvertent and unexpected repellent romantic perimenopausal continual ironic constantly bemused last, special eternal disapproving feigned or genuine kutal feigned outrageously paranoid pleasant but unsettling total overpowering possible nasty unexpected but very pleasant small but pleasurable enormous, numbing unpleasant additional dreadful, incomprehensible advantages—total possibly-fatal faint, disinterested open chinese bland and stolid sheer and infinite highly audacious consequent intense childlike and candid evidently agreeable frank cynical vast reminiscent hypocritically manifest speechless and breathless apparently glad equally inexpressible masterfully feigned completely ludicrous mutual mute does--only pained heart-rending, pitiful frigid and deferential superbly feigned solemn, wide genuine unmistakable sudden mild politely impersonal grave, disapproving wondrously glad complete and crowning billy feigned equally joyful round-eyed innocent delightful, welcome pleasant innocent slight, unperturbed little half-expressed nevertheless exciting inexpressibly joyous naive, baffling ineffable, sweet inexpressible and delightful extreme and comical mild and almost pained impulsive, irresistible pleasant and wholly unexpected wild and entire delightful and altogether wonderful ready small startling or shocking helpless, sudden sudden, mild obvious, naive extreme and real intense and haughty innocent and genuine almost troubled sweet and reverent delicate and plaintive literally theatrical permanent and innocent eventual chemical great and glad certain malevolent new and most unpleasant other northernmost sudden and bright damned pleasant complete tactical feigned polite mild but distinct unexpected and agreeable particularly imaginative blank, blank pained real unpleasant somewhat bleary completely unpleasant fascinating and marvelous entirely bogus large nasty mute, wide-eyed unexpected, unwelcome sudden and tumultuous languid, elegant own notable extreme and cruel unrelated and unexplained helpless, pained acute painful utter, overwhelming pitiful, sad complete and disconcerting direct, frank sweet and joyful intensely agreeable altogether genuine sweet and glad proud, gentle new and unending genuine and innocent also feigned momentary intense now extreme wild and glad delicious and mysterious feigned somewhat unflattering sudden glad strange, annoying great and delightful sudden and joyful strange and joyous almost pained sudden, utter embarrassing and painful dark and unpleasant long and sweet puzzling but pleasant perpetual gentle complete strategic latest rude well feigned mute and pleasant immense and visible wonderful dangerous almost polite sweet, unexpected big, unpleasant abrupt delightful foul and murderous hearty, genuine next nasty feigned thoughtful mild and exquisite final staggering almost human-sounding dead much once stern little sluggish innocently stupid low, charming former constant unexpected and happy present profound natural and painful great and unpleasant extraordinary geological vastly unpleasant obvious and complete straight, frank strangest, sweetest fine flattering great and exquisite wide-eyed, childish grand, careless rather needless secret and great utter and overwhelming jealous new such undiplomatic mild, polite new overwhelming intense, anxious final and real frank, naive mainly mere genuine and complete late short fearfully exciting simply overwhelming silent sweet almost delightful sudden, dazed unbounded and grateful almost shocking more continual deep and honest complete, total final bitter quick, unconscious rather glum joyful complete and overwhelming general and sudden regular knock-down wholly indescribable beautiful, real quaint and sad little feigned own unwelcome certain troubled perfect and delightful much stormy sudden and pleasant thy devout almost comic last and biggest profound and painful great and joyful merriest possible feigned complete bland and beautiful mildly humorous mild own mild absolute, utter sweet and dear somewhat disagreeable great and painful probably fake dead, more psychically gifted alone dear little lurid again ill honest and complete devastating initial feigned wide-eyed happy, evil terrible terminal next annoying unexpected and disagreeable much contemptuous slow meditative pale, intense most profound fresh and agreeable odd, eager simple, eager unexpected and pleasing least grateful fresh delightful haughty military slightly interested mild, passive eager, glad exceptionally agreeable mere neutral much diplomatic wonderful secret agreeable possible, greater next horrible altogether welcome apparently genuine vague distant beautiful and great hard, full small, unpleasant deeply unpleasant unexpected and pleasant perhaps excusable own dazed sweet virginal innocent, joyous own stupendous strange and vague simple, gracious usual easy-going faint, exquisite fairly bad tactical or strategic open-mouthed unexpected and unwelcome possibly sheer truly unexpected equally substantial dangerous cosmic full and overwhelming unexpected and painful small and sweet feigned mild certain thoughtful apparent initial fine secret occasional pleasant profoundly unhappy final, big much frank amusing and pathetic curious, silent dull earthy swift and joyous intense and overwhelming more contemptuous whole sudden grave and angry somewhat bovine real, beautiful sudden vast own agreeable evident admirably feigned sudden, soft own intense own immense certain apprehensive constantly fresh vague, troubled somewhat resentful high, angry little clever altogether agreeable much polite sufficiently unpleasant genuine and unaffected same pleasurable equally evident unpleasant such glad almost indignant mock lemon-lime strange and empty magical and unique wholly agreeable natural and delightful almost staggering real, old-fashioned customary polite lazy, easy-going own inexpressible faint, momentary silent, speechless own abysmal carefully concerted bright and interested greatest apparent feigned great inward moral grave and troubled curious, dull sudden joyful sad and sickening pale and cold strange and sorrowful much indignant dark, dull beautiful and helpful strange uncouth true strategic somewhat disconcerting flabbergasted almost compassionate such genuine unaffected apparently deep glad befogged weary, dull small but welcome somewhat distasteful sudden and swift small, nasty fairly nasty now sheer just residual >actual cold, savage horribly unpleasant glad sweet perfectly unaffected rather pained nearly overpowering almost sharp scornful and contemptuous utter more whimsical almost speechless own great intense speechless least perceptible new delightful complete and effective perfectly amazing inexpressible same immovable so-called major wholly unwelcome constant sexual certain dull true tactical remarkably unpleasant real or feigned gentle and happy little pleasing almost unbelieving own outspoken own prodigious genuine and profound unexpected and welcome rather fleshy rather emphatic ever recurrent quick glad breath-taking dumbfounded relieved indignant remarkably mild sudden, sweet merely momentary sudden, keen vague, restless curious and interested forth general total and utter intense inner undisguised complete dumb, stupid non-fatal such guilty same mild mild gray sour, unpleasant pleasant and welcome quite unjustifiable sudden pleasant sad, sick new and disastrous wide-eyed pleasurable round-eyed own uneasy almost comical vague, impersonal personal and direct more glad stupefying more dear sudden and painful disagreeable mute more staggering such wary dull, painful great and joyous cold and steady exciting considerable slightly contemptuous same indignant singularly pleasing mild, quiet almost joyful sudden uneasy unbounded pleasant little delightful momentary little proud blank more astounding glaring white complete bloody virtually total late successful general all-around little agreeable truly delicious much unpleasant startling and unexpected certain angry own considerable extreme own huge purely perfunctory sudden and fearful much agreeable highly acceptable cool, contemptuous own indignant little pleasant such unaffected quiet, grave genuine utmost rather intense thoroughly disagreeable true critical last and great mighty pleasant such blank rather startling greatest and most successful rather indignant entirely happy grim and bloody unexpected and sudden apparent great certain whimsical stunning much blank seemingly genuine complete, utter proud and glad dull, colorless distinctly visible own blank same childlike much gentle almost piteous sudden treacherous sad and unexpected agreeable little such utter rather natural short but sharp little civil rather unpleasant infinite unwelcome initial unexpected and unpleasant great, joyous genuine little _equal great and sudden wonderfully happy dramatic little much acute sudden and disagreeable nasty considerable sheer quick and dirty rather gentle occasional mild exciting much somewhat indignant sudden vague aghast other nasty great and happy strategic and tactical equally agreeable [_general usual mild such complete painful ever fresh polite contemptuous somewhat pathetic quite needless new and significant altogether wonderful stern and silent complete and total little involuntary little dramatic apparent sudden and extreme little apparent liveliest last unpleasant vile little purely muscular little discreet much simple such sad strange, silent more pleasant own apparent painful and distressing more disagreeable thoughtful little slightly pained equally nasty own initial new, unexpected quite evident great simple heavy dull more startling numb rather haughty same definite certain mild dazed new technological truly nasty most amazing much silent scientific military more joyful sudden and overwhelming own evident sincere and respectful sheer mental great revival much innocent deep and sad welcome such evident more unpleasant human-sounding rather fierce knock-down nual little residual own genuine great and overwhelming own irrational specific chemical sudden more signal own infinite biggest frank totally unexpected such natural incredulous same glad profound such pleasing faint obvious total mutual grave, silent next little merely simple ever less own vast own complete such honest joyous bleary much seeming almost humorous greatest such mortal cold and haughty thunderstruck sorrowful overwhelming complete technical intensely dramatic heart-warming less pleasant well-bred little magical new and dreadful manifest equal grateful fairly powerful almost infantile gratifying brilliant and successful innocent cool, wet awfully bad great overwhelming scornful real nice startling same absurd own dim certain faint biggest and finest somewhat contemptuous intensely disagreeable indelicate complete and utter ordinary physical great and wonderful comical somewhat disturbing damned unpleasant big secret great and remarkable sweet, strange german chemical slight abashed simple and innocent almost total nice little real japanese sudden and strange much mutual last little thy soft damned big dumb slightest tactical incendiary unspeakable off-balance more rude highly unpleasant sweet and innocent such disagreeable strange and terrible more gratifying almost overwhelming whole mighty uneasy haughty strategic quite innocent much genuine pleasing awful nice least visible half-expressed much apparent own larger sudden odd more delightful unqualified disapproving flat-footed bemused big damned rather wistful little sentimental little vague once-in-a-lifetime unexpected inquiring sheer, unadulterated great and general happy rapt respectful involuntary anaerobic quizzical other nice vague angry unflattering such frank resentful more pure extremely busy
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Words to Describe surprise
As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "surprise" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "surprise" are: stunning dramatic, unforeseen and unpleasant, eloquent unfinished, totally unexpected and unwelcome, and faintly pleasing. There are 995 other words to describe surprise listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe surprise 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, "surprise" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.
Note also that if there aren't many surprise 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 surprise?
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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