Describing Wordsfor Pain

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Here are some adjectives for pain: sour and compelling, haunting nameless, complete self-righteous, later intolerable, sharp but fleeting, sickening, numbing, evil, physical, shocking, unbearable, much quasi-physical, hot abdominal, startling ganglial, excruciatingly sharp, intense abdominal, intense sickening, limp and considerable, sweaty gross, sudden, excruciating, sharp, exquisite, deep, nagging, wrong, positive, proud hopeless, animal unnecessary, sharp steady, worse abdominal, sick, anguished, indescribable, dull, severe and highly localized, sudden abdominal, keener and louder, specific, individualized. You can get the definitions of these pain adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to pain (and find more here).

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Words to Describe pain

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

sour and compelling haunting nameless complete self-righteous later intolerable sharp but fleeting sickening, numbing evil, physical shocking, unbearable much quasi-physical hot abdominal startling ganglial excruciatingly sharp intense abdominal intense sickening limp and considerable sweaty gross sudden, excruciating sharp, exquisite deep, nagging wrong, positive proud hopeless animal unnecessary sharp steady worse abdominal sick, anguished
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indescribable, dull severe and highly localized sudden abdominal keener and louder specific, individualized deep and numbing solid and cruel common and filthy dull, disconcerting purely psychosomatic dizzyingly intense automatic excruciating red, cloying ordinarily exquisite excessive spinal agonizingly long-suffering and noble agonizingly long-suffering terrible and bright fearful arthritic exquisite, beautiful sharp bruising arrogantly superior steady and undying vulgar, physical sharp emotional sudden excruciating abruptly worse deep, knifelike distant, curious fierce, wrenching fierce but brief limp and constant abrupt, icy hopeless, sleepless steady, weighty sudden, smashing interesting and highly effective bitter, near-physical grueling, unrelenting fierce, bittersweet worse and distinctive ever-present sour nearly exquisite impossible, unspeakable bright stinging brand-new and almost unbearable wrenching economic family needless hitherto mental acute and utter almost unbearable and hal severe and almost continual acute and permanent poignant and unnecessary absolute and acute almost keenest thrilling, exquisite slight, husky keen, physical constant and often severe self-denial, voluntary last and sharpest severe joint old, unnecessary outright economic constant, continual worth physical charming, temperamental such phony unbearable, ticklish real wrenching blind, crumpled lurid and extreme more, sharper unbearable, unimaginable satisfying real never deal sharp agonizing endless, exquisite sharp immediate blinding, terrible persistent abdominal ancient, ineffable much excruciating bitter, awful awful stinging sometimes phantom open, agonizing dull, tight unendurable, unceasing incurable, crippling mild and unceasing immediate sharp brief, immediate awful explosive amazing, unprecedented alike anal distinctive and private advisable, much sharp, miserable sharp, physical insistent, teasing sharp excruciating numb physical intense, crippling old acute own nonphysical apparent abdominal dull, unceasing acute and possibly severe deep undisguised hybrid, egotistical far jealous last purgatorial dull, unending frontal or supraorbital severe, deep-seated paroxysmal or continuous persistent and severe proud but fruitless cold, intolerable essentially relative and subjective crippling, stinging easier moral voluntary self-inflicted accidental sharp particularly abdominal occasional excruciating grateful, unendurable scorched, dry dull, unanalyzed absolutely intolerant evil but physical fearful sudden gay, dreadful pungent or sharp direct and mental old, poignant swollen, slight sudden localized greatest constant superficial and very little sharp, unreasoning lonely agonizing exquisite mournful dull, inscrutable fierce rheumatic weary and selfish dull, insistent wild, exquisite sudden miserable dull, deep-seated intense, uncontrollable sullen, constant constant, low-grade sharp severe bright delicious severe abdominal sharp, agonizing strong and hard excruciating instantaneous sharp horrible, excruciating stiff hard-core particularly excruciating insufferable, incandescent exquisitely brutal low-grade postsurgical blinding physical imperative physical sudden, unimaginable peculiarly pleasurable immediate, hot outright terrible sudden, particular quick numbing positive and overpowering colicky abdominal sudden agonizing sharp maddening deep corrosive distinct, hot sharpest and deepest icy, numbing credible and almost overpowering crippling and high sharp, psychic and emotional terrible unrelenting steady, horrid intense, exotic acute bitter other, unspeakable honest, hopeless inexplicable and sudden dull but sudden blinding, unspeakable vicious bittersweet sudden, sharper keen and wicked numb and needle-sharp perhaps low-back glassy, exquisite slight, stinging curiously harsher narrow, unfelt white, stunning intense, unbearable unnecessary and excruciating pain-actual perhaps exquisite now excruciating different deeper constant and customary sharp annoying new and inventive terrifying, unspeakable bright, shocking sharp, nagging tart, undigested exquisite, terrifying fresh and physical small and satisfying excruciating but harmless dull but insistent true fierce ineffectual metallic unresolved emotional special, mutual just phantom stubborn luminous numbing, sickening obscure but wrenching mindless, ravenous slight but menacing considerable facial grandiloquent and pompous again ruthless primal, animal absolutely insupportable quaintly foolish own dizzying worse, intense raw, absolute acutely sweet peculiar and cruel gouty physical apprehensive internal sharp and unrelieved animal manifest heavy torpid deepest, sorest awful rheumatic quick, remorseful alternate acute immediately severe constant and acute frightful parasitic intolerable, irrepressible mere poignant vague, universal originally rheumatic slight real numb, vague dull odd other and abiding nervous, intolerable dreadful and unnatural potential infinite secret and angry frightful and unnecessary chronic hysterical past fleeting keen salutary agonizing local extravagant, delicious least discernable bitter and needless menstruation and menstrual dreary unnameable proper loving constant or severe frightful physical numb, voiceless atrocious and continuous quite distinct and due dull or acute sharp and hitherto unknown sensible previous ill, sweet possibly muscular exquisite and incessant acute, intense local and constant deranged, more or less male, intense lone, unspeakable horrible inexpressible needless and harmful pique, deep sore, dull quiet maddening distressing but indescribable sharp but heavy new unbearable outward sensitive sudden invincible evil and cruelest protracted and excruciating sheer pitiless palpable, local much abdominal palpable, such souls--emotional deep souls--emotional unbearable, sleepless strange, heart-rending last, recurrent intolerable, unending bitter inexpressible animal insufferable less colicky animal considerable smart stinging unnecessary and fruitless past, physical sharp and constant unending and pitiless horrible speechless penal or disciplinary hard, fresh frightful periodical cramped and individual keen stinging deep numb unspeakable and agonizing female, excruciating violent, paroxysmal molly bitter surprising angry physical keen ~--psychical desperate, sensuous violent and almost continuous unaccustomed, vicarious violently acute violent unremitting violent unceasing unspeakable sore sharp continual also intense and sudden curious, skilful real and additional pitiless, human keenly pleasing abdominal or colicky also abdominal or colicky also abdominal dreadful convulsive sad but beneficial certainly exquisite delicious, nameless paroxysmal abdominal indescribable, contradictory unchangeable, chronic old, remorseless ennui--physical steady and sometimes severe briefer and lighter grim, specific dull but very deep-seated poisonous, murderous creation--physical glad, balmy smart rheumatic poignant and oppressive strangest hot physical, brutal queer, wrenching fruitless, unnecessary severe and otherwise unbearable real and even acute sharp and most unusual perverse, sweet profound and maternal sharp and unendurable keen, unspeakable indescribably agonizing and protracted indescribably agonizing continual spontaneous intercostal and brachial severest spontaneous hence supra-orbital dysmenorrhoeal ovarian deep-seated intermittent violent ocular ceaseless and ever-increasing acute stinging stinging, jealous acute, bitter constantly harrowing sometimes--mental loving and purple horrible and sordid intolerably severe cruel rheumatic sharp, thrilling boring sharp obtuse, heavy dull obtuse transient, trifling frontal and lumbar fresh and equally poignant old remorseful dazed stupid canal, severe dull insufferable sudden & unusual resignedly inevitable pathetic and habitual genuine effective true, intense less abdominal queer and rather sickening sharp intolerable repugnant, cruel frequently exquisite horrible and unintelligible present inflammatory family unnecessary animal frightful numb, overpowering savage busy amorous, lustful severe, stinging continual and excruciating pure and tremulous pain--real possible sharp curious naked dull perpetual continuous, teasing keen healthy chronic dull diffuse abdominal fruitless amorous greater active amiss, quick intense and almost unceasing sweet and sweetest sudden and blind irritating, cruel sudden, unspeakable constant, severe hopeless intolerable local sharp constant intolerable sharp physical acute physical crippling emotional sudden stinging pecunial such excruciating same inflamed next spiritual dull numbing sharp, excruciating just brutal long-suffering and noble pure and terrible precordial dull, stunning black, hopeless sharp tiny tiny delicious shrill animal sharp fiery sharp, mysterious simple and enormous sudden dull deep and muffled severe, sharp dull, bone-deep violent and frequent equally unbearable startling, incredible desperate, squalid sudden unwelcome much and terrible chronic intractable much unfair sudden fundamental acute rectal merciless, enraged heavier, sadder away residual permanent, nagging sudden clamorous quick, dreadful fierce and fiercer dull, curious world--physical horrible and useless away everlasting bitter and unreasonable great inexpressible beautiful, incomprehensible old distressing keenest physical salutary physical continual real acute and sudden manifest peculiar irremediable spiritual severe localized acute abdominal dull, deep sudden unbearable deep stinging deeper, hotter nearly inhuman terrible, heart-stopping mild but persistent tiny sputtering wild, sick wild delicious positive, personal vague inexplicable thy indignant sharp acute curious eager same frontal severe paroxysmal acute animal sudden smart sharp, dreadful sharp, stinging sharp stinging sharp, acute intense, sharp unbearable physical grey and terrible dull warm sharp jealous sharp, unexpected much unspoken sudden, severe gentle, constant further futile ganglial constant inner much acute sickeningly intense steady dull quick needle-like sharp, poignant quick and not much gut-wrenching, jagged bone-deep, boring residual mental wayward, ornery deeper, internal retro-orbital unceasing endless numbing physical sullen hot stinging, violent cold exquisite mere blinding rpita�royal private, unnoticed acute, vicious this�physical new, blinding lightning-fast, blinding pain--mental sharp, crippling horrendous physical own unending paroxysmal cranial cold, judgmental her�actual excruciating psychic cold colicky fitful, sharp jagged, agonizing horrible, relentless spiked more occasional annoying general scarlet ragged, raw naked feverish nearly unendurable suddenly agonizing slight but sharp brief but excruciating wrenching, numbing triple unexpected cold mortal royal fictional further excruciating brutal, dizzying deal excruciating present�physical midprenatal great prenatal socially apt utter, agonizing near-physical hard, nagging greater, duller much posterior sharper, unexpected worst arthritic arousal and erotic excruciating, unrelenting merely unbearable excruciating, unendurable brutal, unendurable limp, residual fresh, vivid desolate, ceaseless sharp occipital numbing extreme clenched, razor-sharp harsh unbidden hideous, excruciating excruciating, never-ending sharp hollow stinging, conclusive terrible stinging excruciating, incomprehensible enough bright and sudden physiqal emotional and physiqal otherwise excruciating livid, brilliant murderous, endless vast rhythmic singularly shrill and insistent stark slow-motion fierce relentless painful humiliating incredible and almost overpowering abdomi�nal sharp but bearable deep and compelling great and often terminal often terminal stark interior blinding, numbing hideous bright surprising, baffling shocking, stunning bright, stupefying terrible solid entirely unphysical agonizing dry blinding, wrenching incredible wrenching small and really unimportant hot wrenching decent clean pain-physical shrewd royal unexpectedly fiery brutal, shocking totally sincere and spontaneous deep but very private enormous, unnecessary crazy, agonizing young perplexed stinging welcome hard incredible crazy, blinding excruciating, bloated instant, unbearable dry, horrible actual physi�cal restless, sick constant, low-level absolutely phenomenal sweet, terrible blinding, flaming brilliant, sickening endlessly unquiet duller secondary intense stinging mortal immeasurable vicious dull short terrible pain—real finally fiery brutal, agonizing sharp, repetitive considerable lumbar tremendous, unspeakable vast, unbearable resentful and nasty exquisite, joyous searingly familiar dull, ancient palatable, physical breathless, shocking raw phantom clear and nearly debilitating dense, cocky constant, excruciating possibly severe intense, debilitating survival, excruciating rich annoying sarcastic, snotty sharp, blinding instantly unbearable genuine, unpremeditated intense initial ghastly physical embarrassing and bruising unexplained but unbearable rarely damaging slow unendurable later hot greasy, granular fresh, guilty same incapacitating gruesome, debilitating hollowly booming messy, hot final, ineluctable unfathomable, infuriating extreme fiery extreme abdominal you—physical unending, unendurable white, excruciating sometimes thorough ordinary, physical instant, overwhelming odd, needle-sharp still agonizing horrible stinging biggest actual horrid, resentful tightly past mercifully dull much unexplainable acid sharp general, intense gleeful vicious prickly cold bad abdominal emo­tional and mental grey numbing serious severe old and hatefully familiar instant, gut-wrenching red, unbearable furious and maddening immeasurable goddam appalling, wrenching sudden, debilitating savage, inner persistent sharp hot, loud irrepressible and terrible shocking, familiar hopeless, heavy bitter, fruitless constant acute continuous and acute slow, foolish also interior patiently unavoidable keen rheumatic constant maddening cruel and continual deep and positive severe ovarian sharp violent horrible tight eternal passion--eternal abrupt and pitiful distinct, persistent fierce, inexplicable definite localized sharp unreasonable keen temporary sharp posterior rectal and abdominal bitter, unnatural delicious and adorable fiercest, mortal opposite such much colicky miserable sickening least jealous piteous and helpless sharp muscular dull ignoble obscure, delicious safest, surest and best severest conceivable severe, constant infinitely sharper grave and eternal dull, unrelenting severe and unnatural miserable feverish intense and almost unbearable little abdominal absolute corporeal steady, boring intensely excruciating acute, three-dimensional possible universal perhaps acute disquieting, hateful also incalculable weary physical slow familiar manageable, physical dull emotional dull mental overwhelming and sharp subtle, excruciating strange and unceasing sharp and agonizing slight but perpetual unceasing and indomitable dull constant terrible and mortal severe nocturnal strong stinging unbearable inner unbearable, inexplicable exquisite, sweet hopeless, dreadful sharp and numbing strange acute terrible and severe unbearable, impossible positive and intolerable frightful convulsive shadowy and inexplicable fiery and intolerable fresh, horrible least, intense agonizing abdominal of--physical dull, remorseful cause--additional creation—physical slightest needless acute and remorseful momentary, necessary wild, dear rather bearable thrilling exquisite exquisite needle-like agonizing and protracted true gouty intense peripheral double occipital acute and agonizing poignant and universal chronic pectoral continual irritating slight colicky unpleasant heavy constant severe new and unbearable excruciating, agonizing greatest psychical severe praecordial severe lumbar severe pr�cordial certain perplexed severest internal dull particular well-known sharp almost active sharp compelling constant sullen separate extraneous infinite sweet constant and deserving periodic pelvic now atrocious bitter physical real and sharp artful, cunning hollow, helpless unending, eternal hideous personal much and weary dark undying excessive abdominal true cardiac distinct cardiac much cardiac sudden and excruciating sharp, unaccustomed absolute and severe tense inner perpetual uneasy additional and fruitless sharp, local fond, sweet dull, new such unendurable sharp, hot new, tiny bleak, hopeless sudden tiny frightful internal sudden, agonizing bright, sharp deep and private ominous dull black tight shiny, bright excruciating physical quasi-physical occasional stinging hot, familiar sweet, uncertain almost physical keen physical substernal dull, persistent often severe own excruciating huge psychic sudden interior ac-tual sick, horrible peculiar wrenching violent, intermittent intense but short-lived constant low-grade perfectly infernal much extreme essentially relative sharp and steady evil and consequent sensuous physical bitter, impatient terrible and continuous deep, raw dull deep new, sharp acute internal dull, numb sudden incredible unbelievably intense >trivial constant, nagging emotional and creative long, nagging horrible inner stinging, angry colicky such phantom molten hot new, greater possibly extreme overbearing, king-sized sick, vicious sharp arrogant new quick hard stinging sharp, shocking separate, small simple over-the-counter raw, pure

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Words to Describe pain

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "pain" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "pain" are: sour and compelling, haunting nameless, complete self-righteous, later intolerable, and sharp but fleeting. There are 995 other words to describe pain listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe pain 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, "pain" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

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

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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