Definition of anguished
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:expressing anguish :agonized
- anguished cries
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adjective
an·guished
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Examples of anguished in a Sentence
the military's explanation of the accident did nothing to console the anguished widow
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A character of immense physicality and few words, Stupe shocks Lucy and the audience simultaneously with the emotional third act reveal of his anguished backstory.
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The anguished pleas of residents there that they not be steamrolled by the project resulted in a significant community benefits agreement announced recently by Mayor Mike Duggan.
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The result was an anguished debate, unfolding on the sidelines of the summit, about security and free expression, in a port city that, for a thousand years, has connected northern Europe to the far reaches of the globe.
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Trump has traded the anguished Hamlet Comey for the adamantine Marine Robert Mueller, the Justice Department ramrod who remade the FBI after 9/11.
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Maybe that’s the feeling of brain cells dying a painful, anguished death.
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Her breezy shamelessness, and the more anguished shamelessness of her fellow Trump surrogates, shouldn’t fool anyone.
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Knowing that his 22-year-old son, a University of Virginia undergraduate, is back on American soil after being inexplicably detained in January 2016 is a relief to the anguished family, Fred Warmbier said.
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After his untimely death, his widow arrives at his English estate, where Philip, his only heir, is now man of the house, and highly suspicious of his new relative, thanks to a series of anguished notes from a dying Ambrose.
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First Known Use of anguished
14th century
anguished Synonyms
Synonyms
aching, agonized, mournful, bemoaning, bewailing, bitter, deploring, doleful, dolesome, dolorous, funeral, grieving, heartbroken, lamentable, lugubrious, plaintive, plangent, regretful, rueful, sorrowful, sorry, wailing, weeping, woefulRelated Words
dirgelike, 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; bleeding, suffering; 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, wretchedNear Antonyms
delighted, exulting, glorying, happy, joyful, rejoicing, triumphant; bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery; laughing, smiling; blissful, blithe, blithesome, buoyant, jocund, jolly, joyous, lighthearted, merry, mirthful; encouraging, hopeful, optimistic; ecstatic, elated, euphoric, exhilarated, giddy, heady, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical)ANGUISHED Defined for Kids
anguished
adjective
an·guished
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Definition of anguished for Students
:expressing physical or emotional pain
- an anguished cry
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