diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5826c02..170dd66 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 Recent and upcoming changes to dbt2looker
 
+## 0.8.2
+### Changed
+- Measures with missing descriptions fall back to coloumn descriptions. If there is no column description it falls back to "{measure_type} of {column_name}".
+
 ## 0.8.1
 ### Added
 - Dimensions have an `enabled` flag that can be used to switch off generated dimensions for certain columns with `enabled: false`
diff --git a/dbt2looker/generator.py b/dbt2looker/generator.py
index 22ec3bd..ad390b1 100644
--- a/dbt2looker/generator.py
+++ b/dbt2looker/generator.py
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ def lookml_measure(measure_name: str, column: models.DbtModelColumn, measure: mo
         'name': measure_name,
         'type': measure.type.value,
         'sql': measure.sql or f'${{TABLE}}.{column.name}',
-        'description': measure.description or f'{measure.type.value.capitalize()} of {column.description}',
+        'description': measure.description or column.description or f'{measure.type.value.capitalize()} of {column.name}',
     }
     if measure.filters:
         m['filters'] = lookml_measure_filters(measure, model)