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agony

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of agony

1 a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness

waiting all those hours to hear if he'd survived the plane crash was pure agony

Synonyms of agony

Gehenna, hell, horror, misery, murder, nightmare, torment, torture

Words Related to agony

affliction, calvary, cross, curse, ordeal, trial, tribulation

calamity, misfortune, tragedy

bummer, downer, drag

Near Antonyms of agony

delight, diversion, entertainment, fun, joy, pleasure, recreation

lark, picnic, riot

Antonyms of agony

heaven, paradise

2 a state of great suffering of body or mind

the agony of never knowing what happened to her son

Synonyms of agony

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

Words Related to agony

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 of agony

comfort, consolation, solace

alleviation, assuagement, ease, relief

peace, security

3 a sudden intense expression of strong feeling

the announcement that the war was over unleashed a mass agony of joy

Synonyms of agony

blaze, burst, ebullition, eruption, explosion, fit, flare, flare-up, flash, flush, gale, gush, gust, outburst, paroxysm, spasm, storm

Words Related to agony

blowup, grouch, rage, tantrum

ecstasy, rapture, transport

delirium, firestorm, frenzy, furor

Synonym Discussion of agony

distress, suffering, misery, agony mean the state of being in great trouble. distress implies an external and usually temporary cause of great physical or mental strain and stress.

- the hurricane put everyone in great distress

suffering implies conscious endurance of pain or distress.

- the suffering of famine victims

misery stresses the unhappiness attending especially sickness, poverty, or loss.

- the homeless live with misery every day

agony suggests pain too intense to be borne.

- in agony over the death of their child

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