Synonyms for pain
peɪnpain

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1. painnoun

   Antonyms:
   pleasure

2. painnoun

   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.

   Synonyms:
   pest

   Antonyms:
   pleasure

3. painnoun

   To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

   It pains me to say that I must let you go.

   Synonyms:
   pest

   Antonyms:
   pleasure

4. painnoun

   To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

   Your mother is a right pain.

   Synonyms:
   pest

   Antonyms:
   pleasure

5. painnoun

   Suffering seen as a punishment or penalty.

   Synonyms:
   pest

   Antonyms:
   pleasure

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.7 / 3 votes

1. painnoun

   Synonyms:
   penalty, suffering, distress, uneasiness, grief anguish, torture, agony

   Antonyms:
   reward, remuneration, ease, gratification, joy, pleasure, felicity, relief, alleviation, enjoyment, delight

2. painverb

   Synonyms:
   hurt, grieve, afflict, torment, rack, agonize, trouble, torture, aggrieve, annoy, distress

   Antonyms:
   gratify, please, delight, rejoice, charm, relieve, ease, refresh

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. pain, hurtingnoun

   a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder

   "the patient developed severe pain and distension"

   Synonyms:
   painfulness, pain in the neck, hurting, nuisance, botheration, infliction, pain in the ass, annoyance, painful sensation, pain sensation, bother

   Antonyms:
   pleasance, pleasure

2. pain, painfulnessnoun

   emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid

   "the pain of loneliness"

   Synonyms:
   distressingness, painfulness, pain in the neck, hurting, nuisance, botheration, infliction, pain in the ass, annoyance, painful sensation, pain sensation, bother

   Antonyms:
   pleasance, pleasure

3. pain, pain sensation, painful sensationnoun

   a somatic sensation of acute discomfort

   "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain"

   Synonyms:
   painfulness, pain in the neck, hurting, nuisance, botheration, infliction, pain in the ass, annoyance, painful sensation, pain sensation, bother

   Antonyms:
   pleasure, pleasance

4. pain, pain in the neck, nuisancenoun

   a bothersome annoying person

   "that kid is a terrible pain"

   Synonyms:
   painfulness, pain in the neck, hurting, nuisance, botheration, infliction, pain in the ass, annoyance, painful sensation, pain sensation, bother

   Antonyms:
   pleasance, pleasure

5. annoyance, 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"

   Synonyms:
   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 neck

   Antonyms:
   pleasance, pleasure

6. trouble, ail, painverb

   cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed

   Synonyms:
   bother, unhinge, hurt, disorder, perturb, inconvenience oneself, upset, inconvenience, ail, discommode, disquiet, cark, put out, incommode, distract, disoblige, trouble, disturb, trouble oneself, anguish

   Antonyms:
   pleasance, pleasure

7. 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, trouble, injure, wound, bruise, suffer, offend, ache, ail, anguish, spite

   Antonyms:
   pleasure, pleasance

Matched Categories

1. • Feeling
   • Hurt
   • Symptom
   • Unpleasant Person
   • Upset

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. yermoverb

   yermo is pain!

   Submitted by kyleraywebb216 on April 1, 2022  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. painnoun

   Synonyms:
   penalty, punishment

2. painnoun

   Synonyms:
   suffering, distress, ache, pang, torment, torture, anguish, agony, throe, twinge

3. painnoun

   Synonyms:
   uneasiness, disquietude, anxiety, solicitude, care, grief, sorrow, bitterness, affliction, woe, heartache

4. painverb

   Synonyms:
   torment, torture, rack, agonize, distress, hurt

5. painverb

   Synonyms:
   disquiet, trouble, afflict, grieve, aggrieve, displease, annoy, plague, bore, harass, vex, worry, tease, chafe, fret, incommode

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. painnoun

   Synonyms:
   punishment, penalty, suffering, ache, smart, throe, rack, agony, torture, distress, qualm, discomfort, pang, excruciation, paroxysm, gripe, twinge, cramp, travail, stitch, crick, anguish, heartache, misery, dolor

   Antonyms:
   ease, comfort, relief, solace

   Associated words:
   anodyne, anæsthetic, analgesic, dolorific, doloriferous, surcease, anæsthetize

2. painverb

   Synonyms:
   hurt, torture, rack, distress, grieve, afflict, aggrieve

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "pain":

   grief, suffering, sorrow, soreness, bread, anguish, ache, agony, distress, misery, sore, penalty, hurt, painless

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1. Abraham Crowley:

   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.

2. Lois McMaster Bujold:

   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

3. 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?

4. Rebeccah Slater:

   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.

5. Peter McWilliams:

   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.