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Synonyms for pain
peɪnpain
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Wiktionary
painnoun
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pleasurepainnoun
To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
The wound pained him.
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pleasurepainnoun
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
It pains me to say that I must let you go.
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pleasurepainnoun
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Your mother is a right pain.
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pleasurepainnoun
Suffering seen as a punishment or penalty.
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pleasure
English Synonyms and Antonyms
pain
Pain is the most general term of this group, including all the others; pain is a disturbing sensation from which nature revolts, resulting from some injurious external interference (as from a wound, a bruise, a harsh word, etc.), or from some lack of what one needs, craves, or cherishes (as, the pain of hunger or bereavement), or from some abnormal action of bodily or mental functions (as, the pains of disease, envy, or discontent). Suffering is one of the severer forms of pain. The prick of a needle causes pain, but we should scarcely speak of it as suffering. Distress is too strong a word for little hurts, too feeble for the intensest suffering, but commonly applied to some continuous or prolonged trouble or need; as, the distress of a shipwrecked crew, or of a destitute family. Ache is lingering pain, more or less severe; pang, a pain short, sharp, intense, and perhaps repeated. We speak of the pangs of hunger or of remorse. Throe is a violent and thrilling pain. Paroxysm applies to an alternately recurring and receding pain, which comes as it were in waves; the paroxysm is the rising of the wave. Torment and torture are intense and terrible sufferings. Agony and anguish express the utmost pain or suffering of body or mind. Agony of body is that with which the system struggles; anguish that by which it is crushed.
Synonyms:
ache, agony, anguish, distress, pang, paroxysm, suffering, throe, torment, torture, twinge, wo(e)Antonyms:
comfort, delight, ease, enjoyment, peace, rapture, relief, solace
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
painnoun
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penalty, suffering, distress, uneasiness, grief anguish, torture, agonyAntonyms:
reward, remuneration, ease, gratification, joy, pleasure, felicity, relief, alleviation, enjoyment, delightpainverb
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hurt, grieve, afflict, torment, rack, agonize, trouble, torture, aggrieve, annoy, distressAntonyms:
gratify, please, delight, rejoice, charm, relieve, ease, refresh
Princeton's WordNet
pain, hurtingnoun
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
"the patient developed severe pain and distension"
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painfulness, pain in the neck, hurting, nuisance, botheration, infliction, pain in the ass, annoyance, painful sensation, pain sensation, botherpain, painfulnessnoun
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
"the pain of loneliness"
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distressingness, painfulness, pain in the neck, hurting, nuisance, botheration, infliction, pain in the ass, annoyance, painful sensation, pain sensation, botherpain, pain sensation, painful sensationnoun
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
"as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain"
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painfulness, pain in the neck, hurting, nuisance, botheration, infliction, pain in the ass, annoyance, painful sensation, pain sensation, botherpain, pain in the neck, nuisancenoun
a bothersome annoying person
"that kid is a terrible pain"
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painfulness, pain in the neck, hurting, nuisance, botheration, infliction, pain in the ass, annoyance, painful sensation, pain sensation, botherannoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the assverb
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
"washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"
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aggravator, annoying, painful sensation, hurting, painfulness, botheration, pain in the ass, pain sensation, chafe, hassle, infliction, bother, irritation, fuss, trouble, imposition, vexation, annoyance, nuisance, pain in the necktrouble, ail, painverb
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
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bother, unhinge, hurt, disorder, perturb, inconvenience oneself, upset, inconvenience, ail, discommode, disquiet, cark, put out, incommode, distract, disoblige, trouble, disturb, trouble oneself, anguishpain, anguish, hurtverb
cause emotional anguish or make miserable
"It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"
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smart, hurt, trouble, injure, wound, bruise, suffer, offend, ache, ail, anguish, spite
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
painnoun
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penalty, punishmentpainnoun
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suffering, distress, ache, pang, torment, torture, anguish, agony, throe, twingepainnoun
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uneasiness, disquietude, anxiety, solicitude, care, grief, sorrow, bitterness, affliction, woe, heartachepainverb
painverb
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disquiet, trouble, afflict, grieve, aggrieve, displease, annoy, plague, bore, harass, vex, worry, tease, chafe, fret, incommode
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
painnoun
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punishment, penalty, suffering, ache, smart, throe, rack, agony, torture, distress, qualm, discomfort, pang, excruciation, paroxysm, gripe, twinge, cramp, travail, stitch, crick, anguish, heartache, misery, dolorAntonyms:
ease, comfort, relief, solaceAssociated words:
anodyne, anæsthetic, analgesic, dolorific, doloriferous, surcease, anæsthetizepainverb
Synonyms:
hurt, torture, rack, distress, grieve, afflict, aggrieve
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#5093 | hurt | |
#5268 | disorder | |
#5338 | torture | |
#5907 | suffering | |
#6848 | suffer | |
#8315 | pest | |
#9117 | wound | |
#9416 | annoying | |
#9423 | upset | |
#9936 | bother | |
#10700 | grief | |
#10782 | spite | |
#12207 | hassle | |
#12669 | distress | |
#12985 | sore | |
#14621 | sorrow | |
#14785 | inconvenience | |
#15487 | misery | |
#18131 | irritation | |
#18349 | nuisance | |
#19017 | hurting | |
#20106 | imposition | |
#20439 | agony | |
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#29210 | torment | |
#30316 | distract | |
#31141 | grieve | |
#33386 | pang | |
#34306 | injure | |
#43329 | ail | |
#45961 | bruise | |
#51700 | soreness | |
#64517 | uneasiness | |
#71877 | infliction | |
#73447 | afflict | |
#90291 | chafe | |
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#100265 | vexation | |
#104149 | twinge | |
#104507 | cark | |
#112349 | perturb | |
#156065 | agonize | |
#156236 | paroxysm | |
#250205 | aggravator |
How to use pain in a sentence?
A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991:
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
Obviously babies can't tell us about their experience of pain and it is difficult to infer pain from visual observations, in fact some people have argued that babies' brains are not developed enough for them to really feel pain... (yet) our study provides the first really strong evidence this is not the case.
Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.
Translations for pain
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- ахьааAbkhaz
- pynAfrikaans
- وجع, ألم, المArabic
- ağrı, acıAzerbaijani
- ауыртыуBashkir
- больBelarusian
- бо́лкаBulgarian
- ব্যথাBengali
- སྡུག་བསྔལ་བརྒྱད།Tibetan Standard
- poanBreton
- pena, dolorCatalan, Valencian
- лазарChechen
- otrava, bolest, trestCzech
- больOld Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- poenWelsh
- smerteDanish
- Schmerz, schmerzenGerman
- ποινή, μπελάς, πόνος, οδύνη, άλγος, τιμωρίαGreek
- doloroEsperanto
- pena, dolor, castigar, doler, apenar, condenarSpanish
- valuEstonian
- minBasque
- دردPersian
- piina, särky, kipu, kärsimys, piinaaminen, tuskaFinnish
- sviði, ilska, verkur, pínaFaroese
- douleur, casse-pied, casse-couilles, peineFrench
- pianIrish
- pian, cràdhScottish Gaelic
- dorGalician
- rasy, tasyGuaraní
- પીડાGujarati
- נאג'ס, כאב, קרצייה, טרדן, מטרדHebrew
- पीड़ा, दर्दHindi
- fájdalom, kínHungarian
- տանջանք, ցավ, ցավ պատճառել, պատժել, ցավեցնելArmenian
- sakit, nyeriIndonesian
- sársauki, verkurIcelandic
- rompicoglioni, dolore, pena, addolorare, affliggereItalian
- כְּאֵבHebrew
- 頭痛の種, 痛み, 苦痛Japanese
- ტკივილიGeorgian
- сыздау, ауру, жараKazakh
- ಬೇನೆ, ನೋವುKannada
- 아픔, 고통Korean
- ژان, ئازار, دهردKurdish
- ооруKyrgyz
- dolorLatin
- PéngLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ຄວາມເຈັບLao
- gėla, skausmas, kančiaLithuanian
- sāpesLatvian
- болкаMacedonian
- വേദനMalayalam
- өвчинMongolian
- sakitMalay
- uġigħMaltese
- ဝေဒနာ, ဒုက္ခBurmese
- pijn, kwetsenDutch
- pinslaNorwegian Nynorsk
- pineNorwegian
- diniihNavajo, Navaho
- рис, рыстOssetian, Ossetic
- bólPolish
- mala, dor, pena, castigar, doer emPortuguese
- nanayQuechua
- dulur, dalur, dolour, dolurRomansh
- om plictisitor, durere, suferință, supărare, necaz, chin, persoană enervantă, pisălog, îndurera, dureaRomanian
- боль, су́щее наказа́ние, зану́да, страда́ние, геморро́й, му́ка, му́чить, мучать, му́чатьRussian
- दुःख, पीडाSanskrit
- bol, бол, muka, мукаSerbo-Croatian
- වේදනාවSinhala, Sinhalese
- bolesťSlovak
- bolečinaSlovene
- dhembjeAlbanian
- smärta, pinaSwedish
- uma, maumivi, umwaSwahili
- வேதனை, வலி, நோவுTamil
- నొప్పి, అనుభవించుటTelugu
- дардTajik
- ความเจ็บThai
- ajy, agyryTurkmen
- sakit sa ulo, pananakit, hinanakit, sakit, saktanTagalog
- dert, ağrı, acı, kederTurkish
- сызлау, ачы, авыртуTatar
- більUkrainian
- درد, پیڑاUrdu
- ogʻriqUzbek
- khổ, đau, đau đớnVietnamese
- שמערץYiddish
- 痛Chinese
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