pang

pang

noun

Definition of PANG

a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body <those hunger pangs that strike you in the middle of the afternoon>

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