Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
Click words for definitions.
Words to Describe patient
Below is a list of describing words for patient. 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 patient:
- weary nor less
- selective, less
- unhappy or more
- skilful and even less
- deluded psychiatric
- crazed and frantic
- dorsally recumbent
- utterly exceptional
- yon dumb
- middle-aged mental
- same obdurate
- uniquely cooperative
- old geriatric
- theoretically helpless
- bloody difficult
- meek, less
- restless or nervous
- dazed, submissive
- delicate consumptive
- doubtful and sensitive
- hopelessly terminal
- completely normal and healthy
- genuinely paranoid and delusional
- genuinely paranoid
- unexpectedly conscious
- malnourished, sick
- aware and responsive
- severely ill
- perfect, less
- recalcitrant, unmanageable
- prone but fully conscious
- net due
- visibly less
- miserable and thus more
- amenable and docile
- year-long hospital
- sad and sick
- humble and consistent
- indigent and poor
- feeble submissive
- restless or troublesome
- thankless and unsatisfactory
- bloated and lethargic
- refractory small
- rebellious and difficult
- ignorant and somewhat refractory
- somewhat unwise and hysterical
- unwise and hysterical
- hospital private
- white and apathetic
- royal and singular
- fanciful or querulous
- cranky, stubborn
- rude and unco-operative
- nervous, thankless
- ordinary insane
- brave, less
- latest punctured
- restless dyspeptic
- flexible and more
- timid spiritual
- deluded spiritual
- little tubercular
- ordinarily imperious
- feeble, feverish
- exgonorrheal
- specially poor
- fat or muscular
- old psychopathic
- confident or less
- wealthy but unscrupulous
- muscular but less
- quite weak and feverish
- wealthy and grateful
- good-looking, helpless
- dyspeptic, rich
- admittedly hysterical
- hopeful and grateful
- unconscious hospital
- consumptive or rheumatic
- next hopeless
- physically incurable
- sceptical, hectic
- extremely difficult and nervous
- merciful and more
- individual alcoholic
- mischievous or suicidal
- illustrious, tiresome
- daring but less
- asiatic hospital
- often restless and talkative
- cheery hospital
- solvent or more
- pliable, less
- meek and interesting
- chronically wakeful
- furious and intractable
- ever restless and unsatisfied
- docile and apparently cheerful
- crafty, more
Popular Searches
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.
Please note that Describing Words uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. To learn more, see the privacy policy.
