Describing Wordsfor Nightmare

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Here are some adjectives for nightmare: frantic and tireless, classic slow-motion, frantic and variegated, sweaty razor-sharp, vile menstrual, ancient and once passive, own viral, perpetual and horrid, ridiculous recurrent, hauntingly inexorable, somehow elusive, chronic, subclinical, long sanitary, nineteenth-century pseudo-oriental, worst freudian, absolute bureaucratic, horrible, real-life, absurd, awful, wicked and endless, constant, continuous, once passive, gruesome, fantastic, foul and ominous, hideous and oppressive, vague, recurrent, sheer, horrible, logistic and psychosocial, particularly vivid and terrifying, nineteenth worst, unbelievable kafkaesque. You can get the definitions of these nightmare adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to nightmare (and find more here).

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Words to Describe nightmare

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

frantic and tireless classic slow-motion frantic and variegated sweaty razor-sharp vile menstrual ancient and once passive own viral perpetual and horrid ridiculous recurrent hauntingly inexorable somehow elusive chronic, subclinical long sanitary nineteenth-century pseudo-oriental worst freudian absolute bureaucratic horrible, real-life absurd, awful wicked and endless constant, continuous once passive gruesome, fantastic foul and ominous hideous and oppressive vague, recurrent
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sheer, horrible logistic and psychosocial particularly vivid and terrifying nineteenth worst unbelievable kafkaesque mad and horrible grossly fantastic unusually persistent and recurrent personal and unshakable feverish, fitful fiery cubist hideous, slow fearful alcoholic pervasive urban demented, paranoid vivid and especially terrifying complex but unreal classic feminist hideous, fascinating fuzzy and more endless claustrophobic bitter and icy cumbersome man-made drunk fractal spirited, riotous fantastic aural grim unwholesome hot torrid wretched babylonian singular recurrent indefensibly delightful dreadful musical vivid and weird unusually vivid and weird vivid and revolting tangled, hideous perpetual mathematical particularly vivid and coherent haggard but quite painless pruriently horrible filthy, aimless dreadful doggie huge unspeakable indistinct and haunting horrid, persistent unwieldy, clumsy violent and vivid more-traditional disturbing, sinister persistent and recurrent quiet, black wild, confusing ultimate corporate brief episodic hideous, ongoing undulating feathery terribly realistic landlocked seaside bloated sexual chaotic, terrifying vast foul sad impossible fevered and terrifying proverbial worst adtectural worst and very secret sheer logistical whole devastating long, inescapable dark, listless ongoing nonstop unspeakably bloody blind, sickening horrible anthropomorphic proper smarmy oppressive, impending nice ten-day extraordinary victorian black, unending utterly unbelievable single, relentless hideous, never-to-be-forgotten vicious and violent goddamned administrative futile and tedious terrible, persistent sweltering, feverish personal, particular vilely repulsive dreadfully vivid whole real-life worst prehistoric typical diabetic bizarrely powerful horrible, inconceivable freudian and mechanistic awful but manageable senseless, stupefying big, freakish much pasty less logistical cold-blooded, anonymous mentally excruciating wickedly bad hopefully solitary unwelcome and hopefully solitary desperate, life-threatening solid, monstrous nearly nameless terrible, lifelike dire and noisy entire five-day horrible, slow-moving viciously clear wealthy, fancy monstrously complex convincingly horrid intimate and public dim, appalling obscure unendurable particularly terrific unexplained, inexplicable blind and horrible next stereotyped huge, solemn ghastly mediæval ghastly medi�val ghastly mediaeval hideously realistic blennorrheal hideous, savage protracted and unbroken vivid and coherent awful, shocking vivid and hideous hideous and protracted vast and voiceless queer outlandish sheer artistic subclinical horrible, disgusting especially terrifying truly demented vicious, drunken weird, bizarre black, hateful mere discordant otherwise mere leathery little particularly vivid beautiful, horrible all-time worst real do-it-yourself full-blown alien further and even greater evil, terrible peculiar collective dark incoherent dreadful, endless damned freudian gigantic frightful hideously gross dark, primordial techno-logical utter impossible outrageously unreasonable sudden meteorological standard teenage black spectral horrible, senseless horrible, uncertain hideous and painful quite painless cheerful, innocent wild, bloody long and sordid pseudo-oriental whole, horrible occasional fake grey depressing wild and chaotic icultural long galactic terribly odd real foul weird, impossible long, awful kafkaesque cold dismal heavy, sultry logistical whole tangled peculiarly horrid ently endless constant, ongoing vivid and terrifying speleological taxidermical glorious and fascinating usually vivid particularly dreadful unusually persistent horrid, hideous crimson and black altogether uninteresting vast architectural same shocking same corporate ultimate terrorist nearly unendurable horribly realistic last unspeakable vague and horrible endlessly repetitive whole biblical major psychic antiquated social long, hideous foolish, senseless grotesquely hideous own worst long and vivid strange horrible pale, cadaverous dark, troubled endless, tangled whole violent mccarthyite grotesque and terrible long and hideous particularly horrible truly monstrous worst same puzzling new, horrible bleak and distant manipulative old visual and acoustic logistic long, unbroken vast electronic ingenious old old terrible recurrent orwellian dirty, wretched whole insane great, hideous terrible, bloody total white odd and disturbing entire sordid dark and nameless whole dirty fierce and fearful wild mad long unending gaunt grey grade-a same damned drab, dull heavy, oppressive horrible, awful whole incredible own, private tremendous long mercifully short whole crazy dreadfully familiar potential social long, dreadful long and terrible other nasty whole appalling wonderful, glorious perfectly terrible bloody awful dark and endless unusually vivid truly frightful hideous sudden terrifying slow-motion strange, unreal long, horrible bad black wet, dark unusually intense psychosocial craniological other gigantic still blacker less terrible deepest personal bleak white great misshapen horrible gaunt gray remarkably vivid whole awful impressionist plain everyday dark, muddy bumper-to-bumper perfectly absurd good smart menstrual latest medical extremely unpleasant worst imaginable mechanistic own greatest cruel, relentless claustrophobic horrible, horrible particularly unpleasant freudian seriously bad same eternal dark, shadowy compact little long-running more incredible same hideous extremely vivid whole goddamned international political worst possible more sordid cliched strange and horrible frightful deeply disturbing wrinkled yellow long, continuous legal and financial extremely dark protoplasmic particularly virulent long, terrible faustian fevered quite impossible long dreary horrid three-day big-budget week-long unending terrible red stressed-out pimpled episodic squirmy bright sunny big gray topographical broken-nosed cubist month-long long and troublesome speeded-up thirty-year apparently endless strange and frightening cambodian real-life bureaucratic whole miserable oppressive terrible unsettling particularly nasty never-ending own deepest same horrible less painful blackest feverish darkest long bloody more frightful long, dreary dreadful vivid awful foulest horrendous tenebrous long drawn-out post-modern dickensian particularly bad long, long unreal swift and terrible terrible, terrible anesthetized viral jurisdictional seven-day repetitive horrifying surreal numb old childish razor-sharp unshakable terrifying dead-eyed whole terrible bad, bad architectural surrealist long, bloody chaotic wide-awake somali psychosomatic tall, gaunt endless five-day worse economic and political haunting ecological own private skill veritable deepest, darkest topographic semi-conscious contagious day-to-day own personal old, old fantastic time-consuming half-forgotten diabetic contrapuntal realistic syntactic outlandish monochrome six-week penultimate repetitious dystopian farcical long, dark paranoid air-conditioned misbegotten psychotic misshapen horrific numbing gruesome self-imposed fitful protracted hot, wet wildest tireless organizational doggie ongoing heinous reptilian collective variegated frightening uncontrollable plain old repulsive renewal drawn-out perpetual viscous hybrid grotesque causal ugly black unbelievable persistent unbearable literal first-ever teensy abysmal topological unstoppable sanitary inescapable scary four-dimensional nerve-racking frantic whole other geopolitical ultimate fearful heart-stopping same black insane sultry ten-day enthralling same old appalling unspeakable incarnate unrelenting abiding rather nasty rather vague unendurable rather bad believable paramount personal corporate voiceless modernistic demented cadaverous noxious irrational blasphemous polar insistent purest bizarre monstrous unformed slow-moving inseparable mad blood-soaked tangled ambulatory great and terrible social and political do-it-yourself totalitarian leftover crazy fractal demonic ever present two-hour spavined ever-present eternal alcoholic life-threatening sheer repugnant fearsome chronic surrealistic ceaseless atavistic potential utter all-too-familiar continuous impossible continual olive-green incredible day-long shocking bad morbid diplomatic long procedural smarmy made-up fragmentary silver-blue administrative constant weird speechless everlasting interminable distressing schizophrenic unsatisfied l-shaped tall thin tough old unreasoning colossal far-off dreary perfect sun-baked blacker baffling engrossing new and different predominant irrelevant longstanding untold unpleasant full-fledged troubled unwieldy portentous senseless aural particular intolerable feminist macabre psychological absolute torrid thermonuclear unsubstantial painless foggy seemingly endless hectic authoritarian fleeting rococo demoniacal doleful childish ultraviolet private nasty thoroughbred jealous such fearful streamlined man-made indistinct hateful funniest rugged maddening all-consuming fabled haggard drunken more personal more dreadful fiendish three-dimensional industrial sadistic necromantic sordid geometric ghoulish inexorable hazy eleventh daytime foul dead-end wearisome unbroken tedious alien deepest disturbing nonstop complete disruptive bloody apocalyptic gothic portal goddamned confusing heartless disordered impending vague idiotic urban turbulent pessimistic behavioral gastric erotic proverbial stationary abominable biological darwinian crazed full-blown sickening raucous passive atrocious existential momentary whole political evil multi-colored economic subconscious defunct malformed decadent spidery iridescent familiar weirdest hallucinatory maudlin legged nutty mathematical malign strangest rancid evangelical tense perfectly normal elusive anthropomorphic ponderous contemptuous stupefying frenetic gooey wild occasional painful good solid motley lurid incoherent dizzy fantastical wont plaid sad little technological frenzied sweaty bottomless pasty deceptive monkish loathsome infernal extravagant lengthy never-to-be-forgotten oversize own particular botanical underground destructive burlesque violent frigid sudden traumatic mere human manageable acoustic agricultural disagreeable humid superlative lifelike moorish humorous preposterous culinary incomprehensible dismal more expensive convulsive newest trackless fuzzy meaningless uneasy sluggish perennial detestable wide-eyed bony lifelong fifteenth-century gory tactical watery relentless absurd menacing genuine tortuous compelling dark obscene bright red conscious fiercest faraway stupid unchanging final navigational horned urbane icy recalcitrant anomalous minor meteorological coherent sweltering breathless embarrassing teenage lucid black intestinal dim disgusting crimson longtime ridiculous malignant discordant aimless wrenching nuclear visual unimaginable unintelligible environmental blurry insubstantial armored such terrible unexplained ancient goddam uninteresting infamous diabolical jagged fast-moving pictorial standard unwholesome tremendous favorite proprietary impotent unthinkable astounding foolish imaginable odd pink and white puzzling high-tech unspoken pervasive greatest dramatic total fluorescent little black ashen positive fruitless justifiable ferocious artistic savage grizzled revolting more recent riotous eerie own little freakish inexplicable consequent spiritual nonsensical dental possible catastrophic brief heavier lithe crumpled homicidal out-and-out visible harmless amorphous oddest seaside comparable nearest excruciating true squalid cruel earliest socialist grievous uncomfortable mere abbreviated blinding recent ruinous ornamental vicious harrowing physical embryonic redundant forked ancestral ominous miniature hulking bleak terrorist stereotyped social bitter pure fascinating unknown mediæval strategic aztec murky intoxicating undisguised communal fiery electronic queer gigantic fatal muddy sleepless rocky ordinary faceless grim strange sizzling geometrical spectral conceivable bloodied shabby unprecedented fictitious

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Words to Describe nightmare

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "nightmare" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "nightmare" are: frantic and tireless, classic slow-motion, frantic and variegated, sweaty razor-sharp, and vile menstrual. There are 995 other words to describe nightmare listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe nightmare 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, "nightmare" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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