Describing Wordsfor Fears

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Here are some adjectives for fears: least numbing, stark, universal, servile and filial, basic, innate, therefore servile, ever rousing, fly childish, back archaic, stupid, personal, groundless, superstitious, petty cautious, perhaps needless and unwise, strange, paranoidal, primitive atavistic, slavish, self-interested, impulsive and unreasonable, sudden, atavistic, wholly needless and groundless, intensely maddening, evil and frantic, strange and speechless, horrible and continual, queer subtle, vague, groundless, shadowy, indefinite, evident superstitious, overt, incontestable, vague but heavy, unreasoning, senseless, endless low-level. You can get the definitions of these fears adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to fears (and find more here).

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Words to Describe fears

Below is a list of describing words for fears. 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 fears:

least numbing stark, universal servile and filial basic, innate therefore servile ever rousing fly childish back archaic stupid, personal groundless, superstitious petty cautious perhaps needless and unwise strange, paranoidal primitive atavistic slavish, self-interested impulsive and unreasonable sudden, atavistic wholly needless and groundless intensely maddening evil and frantic strange and speechless horrible and continual queer subtle
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vague, groundless shadowy, indefinite evident superstitious overt, incontestable vague but heavy unreasoning, senseless endless low-level insidious cosmic overwhelming persistent wild, mortal strangest darkest rousing more utterly superstitious old agonizing libyan plain altogether undefined and vague unbelievably crippling current ignorant original panicky genuine and absolute sudden, crippling terrible irrational instinctive and mindful unreasoning, mindless vaguer but larger small atavistic spontaneous and mysterious filial or chaste now initial stupid, inexplicable wild inexplicable continual feverish religious and humble countless foolish latent mutual compulsive obsessive enormous, instinctive worst mundane back superstitious cold, nebulous sharp and almost delicious rousing unexamined own baseless selfish and prudential full, unreasoning worst and only real sudden, sorrowful greatest and principal girlish nervous sudden nameless pure, overwhelming sudden unnamed deep-seated, unexpected irrelevant such eerie, shameful cruel, latent terrible feral powerful atavistic terrible, unreasoning fond idle stupid or childish alive austrian dreadful and ceaseless groundless such older superstitious inner and current grim, hungry superstitious and other overwhelming obvious unacknowledged and undefined raw and total own ill-defined dumb, stolid earlier vague keen and ever-growing arid overpowering innate canadian naked, unrelieved unreasonable and embarrassing greedy, jealous subjection--moral and corporeal subjection--moral nervous, haunting consequently servile therefore servile and filial still renewable abiding great futile girlish terrible and vague wholesome mundane godless, selfish continual, piteous distressing, mortal common avaricious unreasoning cold insistent and engrossing basic primitive familiar mad pitifully helpless needless and unwise perhaps needless indignant, physical frightening and such painful, angry old, mutual greatest, secret own claustrophobic crazed past basic congenital nevertheless unshakable quick, overblown overwhelming, terrifying black unnameable unreasonable and natural temporary and sinful momentary superstitious commendable and affectionate obvious constant haunting and superstitious altogether undefined groundless, unreasoning dim unformed superstitious and frantic wrenching, debilitating vain, superstitious horrible sudden fleeting, turbulent gut-wrenching, bone-deep mindless, desperate unreasoning, inconceivable dim, incomprehensible small but omnipresent piteous lethargic arousal and current childish, breathless sudden superstitious deep and common mere tongue-tied sweaty, sleepless noticeable and definite agonizing, uncontrollable cautious and honest jealous and repulsive lawful and justifiable single, irremediable deep-seated and haunting sick and unreasoning therefore initial unnamed, unacknowledged horrid, oppressive least disheartening swift, prescient genuine and pious strange, contagious thrilling but delightful perpetual and abject unutterably glad constant, childlike dangerous destructive horrid, such tumultuous, sweet inspiring actual submissive and filial new and particularly horrid attributes--personal faint, overpowering sudden and wholly unexplainable villainous filthy old-age, dismal real and neurotic neurotic or real pessimistic expectant ceaseless mutual awful, persistent strange and nerve-racking sinful, inordinate erroneous, undue dim, shy mortal, existential desperate, wild-animal visionary and superstitious consequent discreet haunting and restless sudden unspeakable acute spiritual unreasoning, instinctive tiny atavistic sickening momentary highly disquieting weird weak horrible and gloomy breathless, stony sudden and greater quick and virulent deadly sickening jealous, selfish actual cosmic sudden and abject real, black readily dim basic and greatest darkest primal routine-only incredible ancient, dormant tiny irrational shadowy unspoken once debilitating hitherto unproven unconscious, unspoken vague and senseless political and mortal darkest, nonpolitical blind and numbing often irra\-tional momentary but violent craven and selfish ingrained terrible normal, well-founded enough primal panicky, atavistic fully sensible grisly superstitious stark, constant unusual and compulsive hopeless modern exciting claustrophobic swift illogical first-time-parental overwhelming, irrational nonspecific, nameless down astringent calm public rigid, exquisite nameless and unreal genuine unalloyed nay worst probably ridiculous menstruation, psychic sudden, clumsy nameless and unformed preferred overt mor |-tal actually inspiring subtle and feeble seemingly congenital fresh superstitious instinctive, superstitious splendid purposeless vissceral suspicious and wayward haunting, furtive oppressive and indistinct maidenly silent suspicious and superstitious irrational and irresistible afresh anxious sudden indeterminable extravagant and needless better, naked unwarrantable and romantic murky bestial vague but almost overpowering generalized and normal vague and recurrent strange and almost alien squeamish feminine sudden, persistent repeatedly vague almost epileptic dark and personal nebulous but overwhelming strong nor wise awful and real remote, unreasonable perhaps nameless capital grave real, incapacitating trivial, groundless enormous, imprecise absurd and involuntary shivery misty wicked, frantic worst secret many blinding delicious superstitious vague or selfish vague and probably irrational thy obliging irrational, stark mysterious but invincible deep and devastating indistinct, superstitious brutal, numbing mid guilty ancient, atavistic fanciful and often groundless residual and unreasoning morbid and groundless full, real vague swift purest, terminal chilly creepy uneasy, persistent weak or imaginary sudden, physical own finicky terrible senseless vague and often senseless tiny, perpetual gloomy, inexpressible hys�terical habitual, irrational true and very real past and very few deep primordial through--spiritual quite mature and wise glad and strong powerful, irrational incessant but indefinable blind atavistic nervous or morbid never greater and more nameless but natural however personal selfish and groundless cunning or craven innumerable timid ridiculous and wholly groundless unbelieving selfish sickening cold nervous or childish main impending hence frivolous unacknowledged, furtive same repugnant former, much abroad mysterious tame hopeless unnecessary and anxious mad superstitious jealous, unfounded deep-rooted and unconquerable grave speculative uncomfortable momentary longer fanciful burial, premature maliciously pious salutary and honest sordid or material swift and unexplainable distinct agonizing absolute, nervous sincere and very apparent unreasoning, panicky dim and unrecognized distinct--personal haunting, unconquerable entirely distinct--personal idle and senile vague, premonitory timid economical anxious, terrible innate invincible lifelong and morbid fear--material terrifying but still substantial perpetual, sickening contagious, irresistible sullen, superstitious mere jealous always cruel and credulous unreasoning superstitious morbid self-conscious general, cold sudden, unspoken snug, proper horrible undefined real, hideous haunting, insidious well-defined, reasonable oddly past religious and even superstitious similarly groundless mad--physical terrible, delightful filial or respectful great, intolerable great, revolting blind and indescribable awful, ungovernable vague hysterical especially servile therefore chaste hence filial hence filial and chaste servile or initial servile and chaste initial and servile filial and servile chaste or filial consequently initial initial and filial again servile now initial and filial now inordinate morbid conscientious foul, suspicious servile and snobbish instinctive general old, shy mental but corporeal anxious superstitious serious and not unreasonable indistinct, remote craven, sordid absurd and unfounded mutual, hysterical solemn, mystic vulgar or superstitious shadowy, instinctive horrid, unreasoning intense and numbing childish and groundless human, selfish nameless and restless swift overpowering maddening quick alluring, hysterical dim unreasoning obscure and penetrating unnecessary and unworthy monstrous, unreasonable great, unformed intense and hideous cold sickening haunting, nameless awful undefined passive or unconscious dreadful haunting awful distressing nameless and almost sickening latent but constant dreadful and unacknowledged immovable, perpetual sudden craven middling little great, unreasonable rudimentary, instinctive strange, pleasant and sweet odd superstitious instinctive infantile inherent and unreasoning poignant, depressing unadulterated, childish awful haunting former tremulous horrible, irrational helpless, ashen new reverential alert and pugnacious terrific, unreasoning fancy, idle ridiculous and childlike weighty, immediate sudden and haunting absolute acute acute, mortal stark, servile mad, dreadful furtive, harrowing old blinding bitter all-consuming vague, numbing distressing, unreasoning awful but nameless old, primordial simple or phrensical top much irrepressible and agonizing ignorant and ignominious inspiring sick always unjustifiable much craven undefined and horrible quickly cold overwhelming, abject sick, unreasoning foolish, unreal faint intuitive constant and haunting sick, craven perpetual and perhaps justifiable quick and quite illogical henceforth religious grave and unjust evil, virtual true superstitious nervous embarrassing proper and salutary jealous, indignant self-interested and continual wholesome and instinctive foolish and indefinable fascinating delicious fear--personal truly chekhovian ominous, miserable deadly temporal miserable and unavailing instinctive mystical shameless, abject heavy and disheartening abject horrible ever-present, perpetual groundless, intuitive again inspiring unnatural but universal thereof weak general, overwhelming more, unreasoning and unreasonable shameful physical famous, inspiring vague, inexpressible deadly dreamy agonizing and unconquerable acadia--colonial now calm and docile sweet and mortal absolute unreasoning long abject immediate imminent cole--mutual secret indefinable quiet, vague gross and elemental vague but widespread terrible unreasoning mortal dry mortal and unreasoning profound, suspicious abominable, abject indefinable and superstitious sudden remote new pained delicious imaginary early ill-defined daring much despairing angry pale, abject indefinite, breathless vulgar and excessive excessive or morbid cold, indefinite trivial and yet serious rousing sudden unkind refusal godly filial bad and servile new pitiful filial and reverent hoarse heartless eternal and unfounded vague, overpowering doubtless absurd <def>reverential or respectful <def>reverential stark, naked acute chronic previous vague few present abrupt and awful now childish sub-critical foolish nervous ever latent inspiring mutual deep, gut-wrenching sudden unreasoning sudden and unheralded intense and silent same wild-eyed exciting superstitious wild swift terrible and unjust true abject sudden and unfounded awful nagging foolish, superstitious plain, undeniable truly abject immediate awesome legitimate, rational old innate breathless, unreasoning new and unforgettable sudden, illogical sudden, abnormal rational personal quiet, childish violent, horrible intrepid chief peculiar and superstitious vastly respectful servile, hypocritical mysterious, overwhelming extreme mortal obvious sudden exciting further tight, despairing constant and morbid loving and filial nameless, unreasoning vague, oppressive instinctive or hereditary dim and indescribable old anxious horrible, sick stark, utter evident strong usual terrifying foolish and unreasoning constant haunting cold unreasoning strange contagious dark haunting solemn, reverential sudden, absurd usual vulgar altogether groundless naked, raw sick, horrible passionate, unspoken own oldest sour, pungent own murky cold, sickening intuitive feminine vague and sudden deep terrible old genetic cold, numbing wholly needless almost superstitious faint cold down frantic real and primal forth childlike total, overwhelming merely superstitious straight old-fashioned recent melodramatic sharp, primal dire environmental cold, nameless false or minor deep-seated primal vague but constant sickening, hopeless interior human truly terminal delicate and insidious own mind-numbing own night-time savage stupid ingrained cul�tural same unfocused imaginary and irrational occasional nagging rimal plain uncomplicated usual primeval forked sudden troubled childish cold or mindless stereotypically female deeper, untellable ridiculous and unfounded physical and instinctive tightly unnamed nameless, asinine black nameless insane or monstrous mainly unspecified nearly racial enough demonic wholly internal lorquital ely physical undue and irrational constant precipitous irrational, neurotic blind panicky hardly similar mindless and sudden small and strange quiet and desperate often irra�tional sharp, primitive latent nighttime familiar, nagging imaginative aboriginal terrifying normal away obscure sudden, nameless primitive bio-survival patho\-logical strange, unpalatable real, cold `irrational single nagging fundamental prerational occasionally superstitious irrational but realistic dreadful blank real and very natural primal and irresistible femicidal previous unreasoning actual worst such bone-deep eugenic and racial <span>psychological persistent, irrational honest, cold absurd, girlish natural, pathetic actually fossil total, unremitting new, deep-rooted instinctive, racial unaided, such bleak, unremitting exciting imaginary paranoidal nasocomial mute and helpless certain illusive theadmiral shadowy, superstitious sudden, deep-rooted worst recent simple irrational such compulsive complete and immovable ever certain conservative and timid darkest, wildest current heart-pounding mere invalid tense and uncontrollable unworthy and most un-christian sudden stomach-churning worst, worst disapproval and active thy loneliest inspiring fresh anxious and engrossing min\-imal vague childlike grave, haunting perpetual, hideous whimsical distressing constant, chronic often groundless fervent and quite irrational perchance groundless human, everyday own, unhappy mute, wide-eyed incessant and excessive purely understandable good pedestrian odd and irrational blended certain raw agonizing dreadful, haunting primal feminine false self-deceiving blind primitive distressing spiritual naked, uncontrolled disturbing and harrowing gut-wrenching irrational shadowy imaginative cornered-animal somewhat reasonable abject, total idle and superstitious old, childlike certain well-founded naked, unadulterated vague but distressing sudden, shameful vague and superstitious worst unspoken vaguely jealous sudden, not-so-irrational jealous and superstitious mindless, biological unreasonable and foolish unimaginably strong thereby weak hideously potent excessive and universal logical and healthy unnecessary and idle shallow, disquieting disturbing and imaginary quiet and possibly irrational selfish and superstitious constant and unreasonable stark and powerful deep and deadly psychological momentary horrible earlier superstitious instinctive primitive profound and vehement intense defiant horrible, ever-present childish sick vast, sudden nameless, irrational visceral, instinctive momentarily pre-empting other, sick stark, primal own glutinous absolute high-pitched real, icy terrible, striking unending, devastating monstrous, dim all-time worst aly greatest terrible, overpowering stark, unreasoning simply superstitious raw and unmistakable private, unknowable formidable long-lasting slow sick total irrational odd, senseless absurdly sickening wonderful, blissful instinctive and panicky hematophobia-pathological irrational, primitive queer, unexplainable blind, panic-stricken previous helpless chief and secret deliberately striking terrible sickening unreasonable, uncontrollable insane primal inexplicable and inescapable pure unmotivated horrible baseless real and logical eerie, dreary instinctive and corrosive stark helpless intense irrational heavy numb same stomach-churning unreasonable claustrophobic initial guilty mighty, superstitious bemused, anxious naked and complete outrageously furious understandable, human absolute and instinctive almost xenophobic still legitimate irra�tional just irrational appalling, unreasonable unusual and irrational similar, baseless quick, irrational overwhelming inner sorry, wretched sickening, unreasoning deep-seated superstitious ‘existential morbid and neurotic constant, morbid arousal and extreme real and metaphorical deep-seated, nagging cold, shameful savage, professional drowsy little-girl instinctive, atavistic residual, latent visceral, animal real, blinding down debilitating painfully raw wide, intense helpless, horrible pure, high-octane embarrassingly little-girl real, undiluted dark irrational uncharacteristic but intense childishly delicious xxxxchildishly delicious arousal and natural strange, insidious old outright quiet, heart-pounding pervasive and primitive constant and overweening antiseptic, acrid au-logical frantic, selfless sudden, broody grey, mortal sickening, uncontrollable short sympathetic last, mountainous just crippling pure instinctual maddening, overwhelming intense, impotent basic, preverbal primal, certain faint, worrisome shocking, giddy creepy, safe previous all-consuming greatest and most horrific deep and rousing private, irrational gruff, primal seemingly ingrained brief overwhelming specific residual intense, wide-eyed stark, palpable subconscious residual absurd and unreasoning abject, craven ancient and devastating same panic-stricken nameless but overwhelming stupid nervous almost inspiring great untellable profound and definite distinct and unambiguous instinctive, undefined same--mortal dim, intermittent hardly generous sudden, sober persistent, unreasoning frantic, unreasoning genuine and widespread conscientious but unenlightened frightful, exciting new, sickening abject, unreasoning sickening, helpless horrid, terrible nameless, unrecognized intense, selfish odd perverse often supernatural again unreasoning appealing, hopeless

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Words to Describe fears

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "fears" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "fears" are: least numbing, stark, universal, servile and filial, basic, innate, and therefore servile. There are 993 other words to describe fears listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe fears 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, "fears" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many fears 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 fears?

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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