Synonyms for ANGUISH
ˈæŋ gwɪʃan·guish

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1. anguishnoun

   Synonyms:
   torture, agony, cross, calvary, torment, pang

2. anguishverb

   To suffer pain.

   Synonyms:
   torture, calvary, torment, pang, agony, cross

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1. 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, worry

   Antonyms:
   apathy, assurance, calmness, carelessness, confidence, ease, light-heartedness, nonchalance, satisfaction, tranquillity

   Preposition:
   Anxiety for a friend's return; anxiety about, in regard to, or concerning the future.

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1. anguish

   Synonyms:
   pain, pang, wound, sorrow, distress, grief, discomfort, torture, excruciation, agony, torment

   Antonyms:
   ease, pleasure, enjoyment, ecstasy, rapture, relief, solace, comfort, assuagement

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1. anguish, torment, torturenoun

   extreme mental distress

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

2. anguishverb

   extreme distress of body or mind

   Synonyms:
   torture, torment

3. anguishverb

   suffer great pains or distress

   Synonyms:
   pain, hurt

4. 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, anguish, spite

Matched Categories

1. • Suffer
   • Suffering
   • Upset

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1. anguishnoun

   Synonyms:
   agony (especially of the mind), torment, torture, rack, pang, severe pain, extreme suffering, acute distress

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1. anguishnoun

   Synonyms:
   agony, distress, torture, misery, pang, remorse

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1. List of paraphrases for "anguish":

   anxiety, distress, angst, agony, pain, suffering, sorrow, grief, dread, heartbreak

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How to use ANGUISH in a sentence?

1. Alexis karpouzos:

   I came into existence, naked yet clothed with innocence and unaware, bathed with my mother’s blood, old folks heard me cry and were so glad. I came not into this unknown sphere by my own will and I will not leave of my own will but i will drink the wine of the mystery and become drunk with anguish, fear and love. So short, so precious a life, a fragile life under threat.

2. Gayle King:

   It’s still very painful. It’s still very hurtful, charlie and I, we have worked together, been friends. But when you think about the anguish of those women, despite the friendship, you still have to report the news.

3. Rachel Joy Barehl Beth:

   I was in mental anguish, it felt very inhumane for both our baby and for my wife.

4. Philip Dubois:

   Lisa and I grieve for this senseless loss of young life and share in the anguish of their parents, their families and you, their friends.

5. Jasna Elezovic:

   It feels like it all happened yesterday... the anguish remains the same.