Describing Wordsfor Nightmares

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Here are some adjectives for nightmares: frantic and tireless, vivid but vague, cold, vivid but vague, classic slow-motion, dingy petrified, frantic and variegated, sweaty razor-sharp, vile menstrual, ancient and once passive, own viral, perpetual and horrid, murky, erratic, ridiculous recurrent, hauntingly inexorable, somehow elusive, chronic, subclinical, long sanitary, terrifying, gentle, nineteenth-century pseudo-oriental, worst freudian, absolute bureaucratic, damned terrifying, horrible, real-life, hand-me-down second-rate, absurd, awful, former visionary, wicked and endless, classical freudian, constant, continuous, thankfully infrequent. You can get the definitions of these nightmares adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to nightmares (and find more here).

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Words to Describe nightmares

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

frantic and tireless vivid but vague cold, vivid but vague classic slow-motion dingy petrified frantic and variegated sweaty razor-sharp vile menstrual ancient and once passive own viral perpetual and horrid murky, erratic ridiculous recurrent hauntingly inexorable somehow elusive chronic, subclinical long sanitary terrifying, gentle nineteenth-century pseudo-oriental worst freudian absolute bureaucratic damned terrifying horrible, real-life hand-me-down second-rate
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absurd, awful former visionary wicked and endless classical freudian constant, continuous thankfully infrequent once passive limber comic gruesome, fantastic fresh and hideous foul and ominous incomplete, poetic hideous and oppressive vague, recurrent disturbingly sexual sheer, horrible fancy or darkest logistic and psychosocial occasional but violent particularly vivid and terrifying nineteenth worst unbelievable kafkaesque mad and horrible grossly fantastic unusually persistent and recurrent insane bureaucratic personal and unshakable feverish, fitful dead and unending fiery cubist silent, phantasmal hideous, slow own blackest fearful alcoholic just modular pervasive urban bitter, heart-pounding demented, paranoid true and terrifying vivid and especially terrifying usually monochromatic complex but unreal unrelenting, feverish classic feminist mad, shapeless hideous, fascinating countless terrible fuzzy and more hypo-chondriacal endless claustrophobic perhaps unexplained 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 other bureaucratic hideous, ongoing cutely hyphenated undulating feathery hideous hallucinatory terribly realistic vague and depressing landlocked seaside hazy, residual bloated sexual queer awful chaotic, terrifying vivid and overwhelming vast foul frequent and disturbing sad impossible frightening and repetitive fevered and terrifying otherwise fearful proverbial worst continuous, terrifying adtectural ugly claustrophobic worst and very secret favorite sci-fi sheer logistical ghoulish inexplicable whole devastating seamless psychic long, inescapable increasingly distressing dark, listless darkling youthful ongoing nonstop few brand-new unspeakably bloody obscure and idiosyncratic blind, sickening excruciating, agonizing horrible anthropomorphic lucid and awful proper smarmy old, persistent oppressive, impending ordinary, terrible nice ten-day however frightening extraordinary victorian vivid and horrid black, unending frantic and fantastic utterly unbelievable innumerable harrowing single, relentless totally understandable and natural 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 exceptionally vivid horrible, disgusting especially terrifying truly demented vicious, drunken weird, bizarre black, hateful mere discordant queer, disturbing otherwise mere leathery little particularly vivid gruesomely vivid beautiful, horrible own procedural 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 real vivid wild, bloody long and sordid pseudo-oriental ghastly secret whole, horrible hideous, bloody occasional fake weak and tentative grey depressing last and most secret wild and chaotic many unfocused icultural other magickal long galactic usual hideous terribly odd real foul weird, impossible long, awful kafkaesque vague and disturbing cold dismal own, such heavy, sultry logistical own darkest whole tangled totally understandable peculiarly horrid ently endless constant, ongoing vivid and terrifying speleological taxidermical glorious and fascinating usually vivid particularly dreadful unusually persistent horrid, hideous many terrifying crimson and black quite dreadful altogether uninteresting own wildest vast architectural same shocking own paranoid same corporate many horrifying 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 mccarthyite endless, tangled —real whole violent grotesque and terrible long and hideous particularly horrible truly monstrous worst same puzzling horribly vivid new, horrible other, worse bleak and distant manipulative old visual and acoustic logistic terrible national long, unbroken vast electronic ingenious old more and worse old terrible dark, eerie recurrent orwellian occasional vivid dirty, wretched horrible, bloody whole insane great, hideous terrible, bloody frighteningly powerful total white such mythic odd and disturbing few thrilling entire sordid dark and nameless whole dirty fierce and fearful extremely intense wild mad sometimes terrible long unending worst bloody gaunt grey grade-a same damned drab, dull heavy, oppressive horrible, awful whole incredible more gruesome own, private tremendous long mercifully short whole crazy own worse dreadfully familiar potential social long, dreadful long and terrible other nasty many startling whole appalling wonderful, glorious perfectly terrible more unsettling bloody awful dark and endless unusually vivid truly frightful few unpleasant hideous sudden terrifying slow-motion strange, unreal long, horrible bad black apparently impossible wet, dark unusually intense psychosocial craniological other gigantic still blacker less terrible certain vivid deepest personal bleak white great misshapen horrible gaunt gray remarkably vivid whole awful impressionist plain everyday dark, muddy wildest bumper-to-bumper many artistic perfectly absurd darkest few terrible french public worst human such horrific good smart menstrual just ordinary latest medical extremely unpleasant worst imaginable mechanistic own greatest absolute social cruel, relentless more horrific claustrophobic horrible, horrible particularly unpleasant freudian innumerable private seriously bad same eternal dark, shadowy compact little long-running more incredible same hideous extremely vivid whole goddamned international political mediaval heart-pounding worst possible strange, distant more sordid many spiritual cliched such architectural strange and horrible few bad frightful deeply disturbing wrinkled yellow long, continuous legal and financial extremely dark protoplasmic wild, mad particularly virulent long, terrible faustian fevered quite impossible rather fierce long dreary horrid three-day big-budget modernistic week-long unending many human terrible red stressed-out pimpled episodic squirmy bright sunny big gray topographical broken-nosed cubist apocryphal month-long paranoid long and troublesome terrible dark speeded-up thirty-year apparently endless foulest strange and frightening cambodian real-life bureaucratic agonizingly slow whole miserable strange alien oppressive terrible unsettling particularly nasty never-ending own deepest same horrible less painful blackest feverish long bloody more frightful long, dreary dreadful vivid awful cute little horrendous tenebrous --real long drawn-out post-modern dickensian particularly bad long, long unreal swift and terrible such frightful terrible, terrible anesthetized viral jurisdictional surrealistic seven-day repetitive horrifying surreal numb old childish razor-sharp misbegotten fear-filled unshakable terrifying dead-eyed whole terrible bad, bad architectural surrealist long, bloody such fantastic chaotic wide-awake somali psychosomatic tall, gaunt endless five-day worse baseless 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 clever little diabetic hyphenated contrapuntal realistic syntactic monochromatic bigger and better outlandish monochrome six-week penultimate repetitious dystopian farcical enough long, dark more old air-conditioned psychotic misshapen horrific numbing gruesome self-imposed fitful more natural few less protracted hot, wet tireless organizational doggie ongoing petrified heinous reptilian collective variegated frightening uncontrollable more colorful plain old repulsive renewal drawn-out perpetual viscous hybrid grotesque causal ugly black unbelievable persistent unbearable literal first-ever teensy abysmal topological unstoppable weirdest hallucinatory vociferous real-time sudden sharp periodic such horrible sanitary post-war inescapable least favorite half-conscious scary four-dimensional nerve-racking frantic terrible old whole other geopolitical ultimate vibratory fearful heart-stopping same black insane sultry particularly strong ten-day enthralling same old good, old-fashioned appalling suicidal phantasmal unspeakable incarnate unrelenting abiding stygian rather nasty rather vague unendurable rather bad modular believable paramount personal corporate voiceless demented cadaverous noxious irrational unrealized blasphemous polar insistent purest lightweight bizarre veterinary monstrous sci-fi mathematical unformed slow-moving inseparable infrequent mad blood-soaked tangled ambulatory great and terrible social and political fragmentary do-it-yourself totalitarian leftover crazy fractal demonic such bad ever present two-hour spavined ever-present eternal alcoholic life-threatening sheer such dreadful repugnant fearsome chronic real bad own human other local ceaseless atavistic potential utter all-too-familiar continuous impossible continual olive-green incredible day-long shocking bad morbid diplomatic long procedural fewer smarmy made-up silver-blue administrative harrowing constant apocalyptic weird zoological speechless everlasting interminable carnal distressing schizophrenic restless unsatisfied l-shaped tall thin sweaty tough old unreasoning colossal far-off dreary perfect sun-baked murky withdrawal blacker ual baffling engrossing grimmest new and different predominant irrelevant longstanding untold unpleasant full-fledged juvenile troubled unwieldy portentous senseless aural particular intolerable feminist macabre psychological absolute torrid more horrible fewer and fewer thermonuclear unsubstantial painless foggy seemingly endless hectic authoritarian fleeting rococo demoniacal doleful such intense childish ultraviolet horticultural more vivid private nasty thoroughbred jealous such fearful streamlined man-made indistinct hateful funniest rugged maddening insatiable all-consuming fabled haggard asymmetrical drunken more personal more dreadful magickal fiendish three-dimensional industrial sadistic deepest despicable necromantic sordid geometric ghoulish inexorable hazy eleventh daytime transient drafty foul extraterrestrial dead-end wearisome unbroken idiosyncratic erratic tedious skeletal alien unfocused telepathic dullest disturbing nonstop complete demoniac disruptive few little bloody gothic brighter portal such terrible goddamned confusing second-rate heartless disordered more normal impending vague occasional idiotic urban turbulent pessimistic radioactive behavioral gastric unthinkable erotic proverbial stationary abominable unadulterated biological darwinian crazed full-blown sickening raucous suburban passive atrocious existential momentary whole political evil multi-colored

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Words to Describe nightmares

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "nightmares" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "nightmares" are: frantic and tireless, vivid but vague, cold, vivid but vague, classic slow-motion, and dingy petrified. There are 937 other words to describe nightmares listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe nightmares 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, "nightmares" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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