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. 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.

2. Catullus:

   I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.

3. Lauret Savoy:

   I’ve struggled to find a word that could hold in its meaning both the attack and my experience of it. The closest I found is this: ‘severe or excruciating pain or suffering (of body or mind); anguish, agony, torment; the infliction of such.’ This is a definition of torture, for four hours I experienced literal torture of body and of mind, not knowing if I would survive the next minute—yet needing to find some way to save my life.

4. John Hickenlooper:

   It is ridiculous Other Democratic senators are still willing to avoid what is a scientific truth and turn away, and subject cities and towns all across this country to the same agony the Marshall fire has caused.

5. Ernest Thompson Seton:

   Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?

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