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ˈæŋ gwɪʃan·guish
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, worryAntonyms:
apathy, assurance, calmness, carelessness, confidence, ease, light-heartedness, nonchalance, satisfaction, tranquillityPreposition:
Anxiety for a friend's return; anxiety about, in regard to, or concerning the future.
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Princeton's WordNet
anguish, torment, torturenoun
extreme mental distress
Synonyms:
badgering, distortion, worrying, overrefinement, torturing, straining, harassment, torture, bedevilment, twisting, agony, curse, tormentanguishverb
extreme distress of body or mind
anguishverb
suffer great pains or distress
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
Dictionary of English Synonymes
anguishnoun
Synonyms:
agony (especially of the mind), torment, torture, rack, pang, severe pain, extreme suffering, acute distress
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #309 | care | |
| #1083 | cross | |
| #1938 | pain | |
| #2207 | smart | |
| #2824 | fear | |
| #3115 | concern | |
| #3124 | trouble | |
| #5005 | worry | |
| #5093 | hurt | |
| #5338 | torture | |
| #5907 | suffering | |
| #6386 | anxiety | |
| #6848 | suffer | |
| #9117 | wound | |
| #9795 | harassment | |
| #10309 | distortion | |
| #10700 | grief | |
| #10782 | spite | |
| #11618 | curse | |
| #12669 | distress | |
| #14374 | disturbance | |
| #14621 | sorrow | |
| #17151 | worrying | |
| #17321 | discomfort | |
| #19676 | dread | |
| #20439 | agony | |
| #23039 | offend | |
| #23284 | angst | |
| #23795 | twisting | |
| #25311 | ache | |
| #26907 | calvary | |
| #27991 | anguish | |
| #29210 | torment | |
| #30578 | apprehension | |
| #32452 | heartbreak | |
| #33386 | pang | |
| #34306 | injure | |
| #36511 | straining | |
| #40763 | torturing | |
| #43329 | ail | |
| #45961 | bruise | |
| #71424 | foreboding | |
| #74722 | fretting | |
| #77127 | perplexity | |
| #93318 | disquiet | |
| #102610 | solicitude | |
| #159889 | badgering | |
| #187910 | misgiving |
How to use anguish in a sentence?
The thing is if you accept this oh Im sorry and you move forward and a week down the road, we find out my husband has COVID, whos paying the hospital bills? Whos paying all the expenses and the stress and the mental anguish that comes with it?
As a husband and as a father, I cannot begin to imagine the anguish that the Weinstein and Lo Porto port families are enduring today ... I know that there is nothing that I can ever say or do to ease the heartache.
There is nothing I can say that can alleviate the pain and overwhelming sense of loss that we and the loved ones of those affected are feeling, at this moment, all of us share the pain and anguish of this terrible event.
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.
All the anguish that we’ve been through for the last eight years, I’m not happy about, i just hope MedicWest changes their ways.
Translations for anguish
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- معاناةArabic
- терзание, измъчвам, страдам, мъчение, измъчвам се, страданиеBulgarian
- Todesangst, Agonie, KreuzGerman
- βασανίζω, υποφέρω, βασανίζομαι, αγωνία, οδύνη, πονώ, αγωνιώ, μαρτύριοGreek
- angustia, congoja, angustiar, anxtiaSpanish
- غم و اندوهPersian
- kärsimys, tuskaFinnish
- croix, angoisse de la mort, affres de la mort, calvaireFrench
- ard-ghuinnManx
- gyötrelem, gyötrődés, aggodalom, kínHungarian
- deritaIndonesian
- addolorare, soffrire, calvario, croce, agonia, angoscia, ambascia, penareItalian
- צַעַרHebrew
- داخKurdish
- angustiaLatin
- auētangaMāori
- doodsangst, martelen, lijden, hevig, doodsstrijd, agonie, martelgangDutch
- cierpieniePolish
- agonia, angústiaPortuguese
- chinui, agonie, suferi, chinRomanian
- мучить, му́ка, страдание, мучение, тоска, терзаниеRussian
- patiti, agonijaSerbo-Croatian
- тугаUkrainian
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