Which color comes to mind when you think if the word “lonely”? What about “jubilant” or “decadent”?

Cymbolism is a site that’s set up so that you can assign the color you think of for certain words, albeit with a limited palette of colors to choose from. For example, there’s no pink. Regardless, it provides you with the word and its definition and you click in the color. It then provides you with a DNA-strand color bar that demonstrates the popularity of each color that other users have chosen for that word.

Let’s say your color for “hope” is bright red yet you find out others have mostly chosen a yellow or green. This doesn’t mean that your perception is wrong, only that it differs from others. Specific word searches will give you how the graph looks today, past 7 days, 30 days, 1 year and alltime.

Here’s “lonely”

“jubilant”

“decadent” 

Unfortunately, there is no graph for “future” but there is one for “junkie”