Synonyms 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

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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.

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

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

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

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1. anguish

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

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

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1. anguish, torment, torturenoun

   extreme mental distress

   Synonyms:
   badgering, distortion, worrying, overrefinement, torturing, straining, harassment, torture, anguish, 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, anguish, spite

Matched Categories

1. • Suffer
   • Suffering
   • Upset

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1. anguishnoun

   Synonyms:
   agony (especially of the mind), torment, torture, rack, pang, severe pain, extreme suffering, acute distress

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1. anguishnoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "anguish":

   anxiety, distress, angst, agony, pain, suffering, sorrow, grief, dread, heartbreak

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1. Eugène Ionesco:

   The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.

2. Ireland Britain Prince Charles:

   At the time I could not imagine how we would ever come to terms with the anguish of such a deep loss.

3. Erik Pevernagie:

   Waiting is a battle against time. Waiting is time going by and it can be enjoyed, when we are in a privileged state of hope or looking forward. Conversely, waiting can be time wasted or killed, when we are in a state of distress and anguish. ("Waiting for a place behind the geraniums " )

4. Roger Caras:

   There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

5. Alexis karpouzos:

   I came into existence, naked yet clothed with innocence and unaware, bathed with my mother’s blood, old folks heard me cry and were so glad. I came not into this unknown sphere by my own will and I will not leave of my own will but i will drink the wine of the mystery and become drunk with anguish, fear and love. So short, so precious a life, a fragile life under threat.