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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 heʼd 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

gall, thorn

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

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 of agony

comfort, consolation, solace

alleviation, assuagement, ease, relief

peace, security

well-being

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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