Mood and Tone Descriptive Vocabulary

Used to describe a place or thing that is bright and pleasant and makes you feel positive and happy.

• morose

• daring

• cheerful

• grave

Feeling worried about something that you are going to do or that is going to happen.

• sympathetic

• incredulous

• sardonic

• apprehensive

Making you feel more confident or hopeful.

• pathetic

• encouraging

• haunting

• timid

Not wanting or not able to believe something, and usually showing this.

• cheerful

• confident

• incredulous

• haunting

Calm and peaceful and without noise, violence, worry, etc.

• tranquil

• satiate

• foreboding

• apprehensive

Very sad.

• sardonic

• sympathetic

• sorrowful

• confident

Lacking respect.

• disrespectful

• anxious

• incredulous

• grave

Not serious about a serious subject, in an attempt to be funny or to appear clever.

• tranquil

• flippant

• haunting

• timid

Showing little respect in a humorous but unkind way, often because you think that you are too important to consider or discuss a matter.

• sardonic

• daring

• satiate

• encouraging

seriously bad

• sardonic

• timid

• grave

• confident