Synonyms for growing pains
grow·ing pains

Princeton's WordNet

1. growing painsnoun

   pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth

2. growing painsnoun

   emotional distress arising during adolescence

3. growing painsnoun

   problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages)

Matched Categories

1. • Pain
   • Trouble

Suggested Resources

1. growing pains

   Read the full text of the Growing Pains poem by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis on the Poetry.com website.

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1. J.S.B. Morse:

   A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.

2. Howard Tai:

   To me, this is all part of the growing pains of China trying to liberalize its financial markets to become an important player on the world stage, and from a technicality standpoint, they are learning to deal with the various issues that come with that.

3. Peter Tuz:

   In an economy that still seems to have some growing pains, consistent growth is worth paying up for.

4. Greg Block:

   We know there will be growing pains, but thousands of people are riding these things. Anytime we get somebody out of car and on scooter, that's better for everybody.

5. Kirstie Wilson:

   I was bleeding in between periods and I was in agony but doctors diagnosed me with thrush and growing pains, it took me four months of going back and forth to my GP (general practitioner) before I was given a [Pap] smear test.