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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1. Ireland Britain Prince Charles:

   At the time I could not imagine how we would ever come to terms with the anguish of such a deep loss.

2. Jim Risch:

   While President Obama is in Boise tomorrow he should meet with Pastor Abedini’s wife Naghmeh so that he can fully comprehend the human rights violations being committed against her husband by the Iranian government and the anguish this is causing an Idaho family.

3. Donald Trump:

   It was the beginning of a barbaric trade of human lives, today in honor, we remember every sacred soul who suffered the horrors of slavery and the anguish of bondage.

4. The Democratic governor:

   Minneapolis and St. Paul are on fire, the fire is still smoldering in our streets. The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish unheard. Now generations of pain is manifesting itself in front of the world - and the world is watching.

5. Akhenaten:

   The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.