Abyssal | Agitated |
Alluring | Angry |
Awe-inspiring | Beautiful |
Bewildering | Bewitching |
Big | Billowing |
Biting | Blissful |
Blue | Blue-green |
Blustering | Boisterous |
Bombastic | Boundless |
Brazen | Breaking |
Breathtaking | Breezy |
Brilliant | Briny |
Brooding | Bubbling |
Calm | Captivating |
Careening | Celestial |
Changing | Chaotic |
Charismatic | Chilly |
Choppy | Churning |
Clamorous | Clean |
Cleansing | Clear |
Coastal | Colossal |
Commanding | Constant |
Consuming | Convulsing |
Coral | Cosmic |
Crashing | Cresting |
Crisp | Crunching |
Crying | Crystal-clear |
Crystalline | Dancing |
Dangerous | Dark |
Dazzling | Deafening |
Deep | Delicate |
Demanding | Dense |
Desperate | Difficult |
Disorienting | Distant |
Dizzying | Dramatic |
Dreamy | Eerie |
Effervescent | Electric |
Elemental | Emerald |
Enchanting | Endless |
Energizing | Enigmatic |
Enormous | Enthralling |
Enticing | Entrancing |
Enveloping | Erratic |
Exciting | Exhausting |
Exhilarating | Explosive |
Exquisite | Fascinating |
Fathomless | Ferocious |
Fierce | Flowing |
Foaming | Foggy |
Formidable | Frantic |
Friendly | Frosty |
Frothy | Gentle |
Glistening | Glittering |
Grand | Gray |
Green | Gusty |
Hazy | Heavy |
High | Humbling |
Hypnotic | Ice-Capped |
Impressive | Infinite |
Inspirational / Inspiring | Intense |
Invigorating | Lapping |
Limitless | Luminous |
Magnanimous | Magnificent |
Majestic | Melancholy |
Mesmerizing | Mysterious |
Mystical | Nostalgic |
Ominous | Peaceful |
Polluted | Powerful |
Pristine | Raging |
Restless | Rhythmic |
Rippling | Roaring |
Salty | Sapphire |
Secluded | Serene |
Sleepless | Sparkling |
Stormy | Swirling |
Temperate | Tempestuous |
Tempting | Tranquil |
Treacherous | Tropical |
Tumultuous | Turbulent |
Turquoise | Twinkling |
Unconquerable | Undulating |
Unfathomable | Unforgiving |
Unpredictable | Unstable |
Unyielding | Vast |
Wild | Wondrous |
Overview
Words to describe the ocean include descriptions of its size, conditions, characteristics and color. It is also common to describe the effect that the ocean has on people such as sense, sensation and emotional impressions of the sea.
