pain

pain

noun

Definition of PAIN

1

a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body <the child was crying because of a pain in her knee>

Synonyms ache, pang, prick, shoot, smart, sting, stitch, throe, tingle, twinge

Related Words discomfort, distress, soreness, tenderness; affliction, agony, anguish, misery, sufferance, suffering, torment, torture; inflammation, sore, swelling; damage, detriment, harm, hurt, injury; backache, bellyache, charley horse, colic, complaint, earache, gripe, headache, stomachache, toothache

Near Antonyms comfort, ease, easiness

2

a state of great suffering of body or mind <a sprained ankle caused him great pain for a week>

Synonyms affliction, agony, anguish, excruciation, hurt, misery, pain, rack, strait(s), torment, torture, travail, tribulation, woe

Related Words discomfort; cross, crucible, trial; heartache, heartbreak, joylessness, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness; emergency, pinch; asperity, difficulty, hardship, rigor; ache, pang, smarting, soreness, stitch, throe, twinge; danger, jeopardy, trouble

Near Antonyms comfort, consolation, solace; alleviation, assuagement, ease, relief; peace, security; well-being

pains plstrict attentiveness to what one is doing <take pains to be sure that you don't damage anything while moving the furniture>

Synonyms carefulness, closeness, conscientiousness, heed, heedfulness, meticulosity, meticulousness, pains, scrupulousness

Related Words advertence, advertency, attention, concentration, focus, observance, observation; alertness, mindfulness, vigilance, watchfulness; dutifulness, irreproachability, irreproachableness, punctiliousness, responsibility; bother, effort, painstaking, trouble; exactness, particularity, precision

Near Antonyms inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inobservance

Antonyms heedlessness, inattentiveness, negligence

pains plthe active use of energy in producing a result <she was at pains to reassure us that everything would be fine>

Synonyms elbow grease, exertion, expenditure, labor, pains, sweat, trouble, while, work

Related Words drudgery, grind, slog, strain, toil, travail; dint, energy; force, might, muscle, power, puissance; attempt, endeavor, essay, fling, go, pass, shot, stab, trial, try, whack

Near Antonyms adroitness, ease, facility, fluency, smoothness; dormancy, idleness, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, languor, laziness, quiescence

5

one who is obnoxiously annoying <sometimes that child, who apparently never tires of asking questions, can be such a pain>

Synonyms annoyance, annoyer, bother, gadfly, gnawer, nudnik (also nudnick), pain, persecutor, pest, tease, teaser

Related Words headache; harrier, heckler, interrupter (also interruptor); hassle, plague; harasser, molester, tormentor (also tormenter), torturer

Near Antonyms charmer, smoothy (or smoothie); comforter, solacer, soother