You could try searching for [**collocations**][1] + the word you want the adjectives, nouns, or even verbs paired to.

According to [ODO][2] collocations are 

> - The *habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word* or words with a frequency greater than chance.

>‘the words have a similar range of collocation’

> - *A pair or group of words that are habitually juxtaposed*.

>‘‘strong tea’ and ‘heavy drinker’ are typical English collocations’

For example, a search for [**collocations+pain**][3] returned the following (amongst others) from the Online OXFORD Collocation Dictionary:

>acute, agonizing, awful, excruciating, extreme, great, intense, severe, sharp, terrible, unbearable | burning, searing, shooting, stabbing, throbbing, etc.

A search for [**collocations+acute**][4] rendered the following results amongst others:

> ↑agitation, ↑angle, ↑anxiety, ↑appendicitis, ↑asthma, ↑attack, ↑awareness, ↑case, ↑complication, ↑crisis, ↑danger, ↑depression, ↑diarrhoea, ↑dilemma, ↑discomfort, ↑disease, ↑distress, etc.


  [1]: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/collocation
  [2]: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/
  [3]: http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com/search?word=pain
  [4]: http://collocations.enacademic.com/187/acute