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Examples of agonized in a Sentence
an agonized cry of despair
one look at his agonized, tearful eyes and it was clear that something was terribly wrong
Recent Examples of agonized from the Web
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Constantly cloaked in shadow or grimacing in agonized resolution (such good work from Luca Casalanguida there).
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These would include Martin Starr as his brother, Adam; Shiri Appleby as his sister, Ruthie; Fred Melamed and Rhea Perlman as his agonized parents; and Hannah Heller as Adam’s wife, Zelda, whose recent brain damage no one really wants to address.
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Origin and Etymology of agonized
agonized Synonyms
Synonyms
aching, anguished, bemoaning, bewailing, bitter, deploring, doleful, dolorous, funeral, grieving, heartbroken, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, plangent, regretful, rueful, sorrowful, sorry, wailing, weeping, woeful;
Near Antonyms
delighted, exulting, glorying, happy, joyful, rejoicing, triumphant;
bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery;
blissful, blithe, blithesome, buoyant, jocund, jolly, joyous, lighthearted, merry, mirthful;
encouraging, hopeful, optimistic;
ecstatic, elated, euphoric, exhilarated, giddy, heady, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical);
Related Words
elegiac (also elegiacal), melancholy;
dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, dispirited, downcast, downhearted, heartsick, heartsore, inconsolable, tearful;
brokenhearted, careworn, crestfallen, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, gloomy, glum, low-spirited, miserable, sad, triste, unhappy, woebegone;
bawling, crying, groaning, howling, keening, moaning, yammering;
black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, darkening, desolate, dismal, dreary, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray (also grey), joyless, low, miserable, moody, morbid, morose, pathetic, pessimistic, piteous, saturnine, somber (or sombre), sullen;
AGONIZED Defined for English Language Learners
agonized
Definition of agonized for English Language Learners
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: showing mental or physical pain or agony
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