Antonyms for anguish
ˈæŋ gwɪʃan·guish

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1. anguishnoun

   Synonyms:
   torture, agony, cross, calvary, torment, pang

2. anguishverb

   To suffer pain.

   Synonyms:
   torture, calvary, torment, pang, agony, cross

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 3 votes

1. anguish

   Anxiety is, according to its derivation, a choking disquiet, akin to anguish; anxiety is mental; anguish may be mental or physical; anguish is in regard to the known, anxiety in regard to the unknown; anguish is because of what has happened, anxiety because of what may happen. Anxiety refers to some future event, always suggesting hopeful possibility, and thus differing from apprehension, fear, dread, foreboding, terror, all of which may be quite despairing. In matters within our reach, anxiety always stirs the question whether something can not be done, and is thus a valuable spur to doing; in this respect it is allied to care. Foreboding, dread, etc., commonly incapacitate for all helpful thought or endeavor. Worry is a more petty, restless, and manifest anxiety; anxiety may be quiet and silent; worry is communicated to all around. Solicitude is a milder anxiety. Fretting or fretfulness is a weak complaining without thought of accomplishing or changing anything, but merely as a relief to one's own disquiet. Perplexity often involves anxiety, but may be quite free from it. A student may be perplexed regarding a translation, yet, if he has time enough, not at all anxious regarding it.

   Antonyms:
   apathy, assurance, calmness, carelessness, confidence, ease, light-heartedness, nonchalance, satisfaction, tranquillity

   Synonyms:
   anxiety, apprehension, care, concern, disquiet, disturbance, dread, fear, foreboding, fretfulness, fretting, misgiving, perplexity, solicitude, trouble, worry

   Preposition:
   Anxiety for a friend's return; anxiety about, in regard to, or concerning the future.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. anguish

   Antonyms:
   ease, pleasure, enjoyment, ecstasy, rapture, relief, solace, comfort, assuagement

   Synonyms:
   pain, pang, wound, sorrow, distress, grief, discomfort, torture, excruciation, agony, torment

Matched Categories

1. • Suffer
   • Suffering
   • Upset

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. anguish, torment, torturenoun

   extreme mental distress

   Synonyms:
   badgering, distortion, worrying, overrefinement, torturing, straining, harassment, torture, bedevilment, twisting, agony, curse, torment

2. anguishverb

   extreme distress of body or mind

   Synonyms:
   torture, torment

3. anguishverb

   suffer great pains or distress

   Synonyms:
   pain, hurt

4. pain, anguish, hurtverb

   cause emotional anguish or make miserable

   "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"

   Synonyms:
   smart, hurt, pain, trouble, injure, wound, bruise, suffer, offend, ache, ail, spite

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1. anguishnoun

   Synonyms:
   agony, distress, torture, misery, pang, remorse

How to use anguish in a sentence?

1. Carlos Brito:

   It was real anguish.

2. Donald Trump:

   While reopening the government is long overdue, I will not celebrate a temporary reprieve to a politically motivated crisis that has left many federal employees in anguish over how to pay their bills, feed their families, and keep a roof over their heads.

3. Attorney Debra Katz:

   With tremendous anguish, I am now sharing this information about my experience and setting the record straight. It has been extremely difficult to relive that traumatic experience from 2004. Mr. Fairfax has tried to brand me as a liar to a national audience, in service to his political ambitions, and has threatened litigation. Given his false assertions, Im compelled to make clear what happened.

4. Bruce Whitelaw:

   This project, by increasing our understanding of how the early human embryo develops and grows, will add to the basic scientific knowledge needed for devising strategies to assist infertile couples and reduce the anguish of miscarriage.

5. Donald Trump:

   It was the beginning of a barbaric trade of human lives, today in honor, we remember every sacred soul who suffered the horrors of slavery and the anguish of bondage.

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