Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
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Words to Describe headaches
Below is a list of describing words for headaches. 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 headaches:
- blinding and incapacitating
- frequent sick
- terrible merciless
- indisputable feminine
- lonely blank
- sick, languid
- periodic or intermittent
- worst nervous
- terrifying, extreme
- ferocious, nauseous
- nervous sick
- fewer sick
- chronic congestive
- late and bad
- congestive and anemic
- severe intracranial
- worst sick
- unbearably severe
- hemicranial
- agonizing hemicranial
- blind, sickening
- atrocious sick
- severe frontal
- intermittent but severe
- frequent occipital
- painful, blinding
- excrutiatingly painful
- subsequent chronic
- extraordinarily severe
- regular crippling
- severe or mild
- languid nervous
- persistent and obstinate
- excruciating nervous
- quicker and nervous
- frequent dull
- frontal dull
- frequent frontal
- increasingly debilitating
- myriad administrative
- sick or nervous
- bad sick
- awful painful
- frequent and stronger
- increasingly massive
- old vile
- dreadful nervous
- occasional sick
- dreadful sick
- incessant nervous
- frequent and protracted
- severe intermittent
- bad, nervous
- fearful bad
- frequent severe
- continual and violent
- increasingly intense
- painful, debilitating
- darn bad
- nervous or hysterical
- bad nervous
- long and savage
- severe and persistent
- increasingly painful
- almost chronic
- seemingly unaccountable
- often severe
- usual petty
- strange, brief
- also severe
- old nervous
- awful sick
- severe nervous
- frequent and severe
- occasional severe
- frequent violent
- extreme cold
- still major
- certain obnoxious
- chronic nervous
- extreme bad
- general all-around
- violent nervous
- real sick
- congestive
- major, major
- such sick
- more sick
- frequent bad
- old sick
- incapacitating
- quite terrible
- unusually intense
- quite bad
- violent and sudden
- occipital
- such dreadful
- sick
- blinding
- nervous
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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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