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, 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, 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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1. President Barack Obama:

   As a husband and as a father, I cannot begin to imagine the anguish that the Weinstein and Lo Porto port families are enduring today ... I know that there is nothing that I can ever say or do to ease the heartache.

2. C. C. Colton:

   Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

3. President Obama:

   In one afternoon 50 years ago, so much of our turbulent history -- the stain of slavery and anguish of civil war; the yoke of segregation and tyranny of Jim Crow; the death of four little girls in Birmingham, and the dream of a Baptist preacher -- met on this bridge.

4. Dag Hammarskjöld:

   Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

5. Joan Jett:

   Inspiration comes from all sorts of places, and you have to decide that it's not worth all that mental anguish worrying about what other people think.