Antonyms for agony
ˈæg ə niagony

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. agonynoun

   Synonyms:
   suffering, torment, distress, throe, anguish, pang

2. agonynoun

   Violent contest or striving.

   The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. —Thomas Babington Macaulay.

   Synonyms:
   throe, anguish, distress, pang, torment, suffering

3. agonynoun

   Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.

   Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. —Luke xxii. 44.

   Synonyms:
   suffering, pang, torment, throe, anguish, distress

4. agonynoun

   Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.

   With cries and agonies of wild delight. —Alexander Pope.

   Synonyms:
   pang, suffering, throe, torment, distress, anguish

5. agonynoun

   The last struggle of life; death struggle.

   Synonyms:
   torment, throe, anguish, pang, suffering, distress

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 6 votes

1. agony

   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.

   Antonyms:
   comfort, delight, ease, enjoyment, peace, rapture, relief, solace

   Synonyms:
   ache, anguish, distress, pain, pang, paroxysm, suffering, throe, torment, torture, twinge, wo(e)

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. agony

   Antonyms:
   assuagement, comfort, peace, ease, relief, gratification, enjoyment, rapture, ecstasy, composure

   Synonyms:
   pain, torture, torment, distress, woe, throe, suffering, pang, excruciation

Matched Categories

1. • Pain
   • Suffering

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.3 / 4 votes

1. agony, torment, torturenoun

   intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

   "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"

   Synonyms:
   badgering, distortion, worrying, overrefinement, torturing, straining, harassment, excruciation, torture, anguish, bedevilment, suffering, twisting, curse, torment

2. agony, suffering, excruciationnoun

   a state of acute pain

   Synonyms:
   hurt, distress, woe, excruciation, torture, suffering, crucifixion, torment

How to use agony in a sentence?

1. Larry Krasner:

   They don’t believe that. They know better than that, this is pure hypocrisy. This is taking advantage of people’s pain, their suffering, their tragedy, their agony … this is taking advantage of that for the worst kind of cheap politics.

2. Isadora Duncan, The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan:

   No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

3. Dylan Farrow:

   My sister's decision to step forward came shortly after I began work on a book and a television series. It was the last association I wanted … But when Dylan Farrow explained her agony in the wake of powerful voices sweeping aside her allegations, the press often willing to be taken along for the ride, and the fears she held for young girls potentially being exposed to a predator — I ultimately knew she was right.

4. Nicki Ley:

   Procrastination is self-induced torture, often void of physical agony. It still hurts.

5. George Eliot:

   Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

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