lang descriptive vocab

eyes

piercing, glassy, bloodshot, gleaming, sunken

colours

crimson, sapphire, charcoal, tawny, pale as milk

movement

sluggish, darting, jerky, gliding, prowling

👂 Sound (Auditory Imagery)

echoed, throbbed, crackled, thudded, whispere

nouns

murmur, cacophony, hush, roar, jingle

phrases

“the wind whistled through broken windows”

phrases

“a silence thick enough to suffocate”

👃 Smell

acrid stench of smoke, sweet, cloying perfume,musty scent of decay,air thick with grease and exhaust, freshly cut grass, metallic tang of blood

🤲 Touch (Tactile Imagery)

coarse, velvety, brittle, clammy, searing

touch phrases

“a chill crawled down my spine”,“the rough bark snagged at my fingertips”,“her skin was paper-thin, almost transparent

🍽️ Taste

bittersweet, metallic, tangy, sickly sweet

Taste phrases

“a taste of copper flooded my mouth”,“the air tasted like ash and regret”

💀 Mood and Atmosphere Words

eerie, oppressive, desolate, tranquil, nostalgic, suffocating, electric, ominous, sinister

active verbs

trudged, slithered, darted, loomed, staggered, recoiled, lingered, crept, exploded