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. Pinkett Smith:

   It was a relationship, absolutely. I was in a lot of pain, i was very broken. In the process of that relationship,I definitely realized you cant find happiness outside of yourself.

2. Post Malone:

   We just got back from the hospital, and everything's good, they gave me some pain meds and everything, so we can keep kicking ass on the tour.

3. Marcus Aelius Aurelius:

   If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

4. Erik Pevernagie:

   Journeys of love can be stunning and desperately exhausting. Love implies hope, but numerous are the impediments and the road may be covered with shipwrecking obstacles, since love is mystery, doubt, fear, pain and sometimes war or hell. ( " Those journeys of love" - "Cape of good Hope " )

5. Edwin Wiek:

   Pai Lin arrived at our sanctuary in 2006 after working in the Thai tourism industry, she was given up by her previous owner who felt that she was too slow and always in pain and couldn’t work well anymore.