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pain

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of pain

1 a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body

  • the child was crying because of a pain in her knee
Synonyms of pain

ache, pang, prick, shoot, smart, sting, stitch, throe, tingle, twinge
Words Related to pain

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 of pain

comfort, ease, easiness

2 a state of great suffering of body or mind

  • a sprained ankle caused him great pain for a week
Synonyms of pain

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

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 pain

comfort, consolation, solace

alleviation, assuagement, ease, relief

peace, security

well-being

3 pains plural strict attentiveness to what one is doing

  • asked the movers to take pains to be sure that they didn't damage anything while moving the furniture
Synonyms of pain

care, carefulness, closeness, conscientiousness, heed, heedfulness, meticulosity, meticulousness, scrupulousness
Words Related to pain

advertence, advertency, attention, concentration, focus, observance, observation

alertness, mindfulness, vigilance, watchfulness

dutifulness, irreproachability, irreproachableness, punctiliousness, responsibility

bother, effort, painstaking, trouble

exactness, particularity, precision
Near Antonyms of pain

inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inobservance
Antonyms of pain

heedlessness, inattentiveness, negligence

4 pains plural the active use of energy in producing a result

  • she was at pains to reassure us that everything would be fine
Synonyms of pain

effort, elbow grease, exertion, expenditure, labor, sweat, trouble, while, work
Words Related to pain

drudgery, grind, slog, strain, toil, travail

dint, energy

force, might, muscle, power, puissance

attempt, endeavor, essay, fling, go, pass, shot, stab, trial, try, whack
Near Antonyms of pain

adroitness, ease, facility, fluency, smoothness

dormancy, idleness, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, languor, laziness, quiescence

5 one who is obnoxiously annoying

  • sometimes that child, who apparently never tires of asking questions, can be such a pain
Synonyms of pain

annoyance, annoyer, bother, gadfly, gnawer, nudnik (also nudnick), nuisance, persecutor, pest, tease, teaser
Words Related to pain

headache

harrier, heckler, interrupter (also interruptor)

hassle, plague

harasser, molester, tormentor (also tormenter), torturer
Phrases Synonymous with pain

pain in the neck
Near Antonyms of pain

charmer, smoothy (or smoothie)

comforter, solacer, soother

pain

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of pain

to feel or cause physical pain

  • my poor head was paining so from all that racket
Synonyms of pain

ache, hurt, smart
Words Related to pain

bite, bleed, burn, chafe, cramp, fester, itch, nag, pinch, pound, rack, sting, swell, throb, tingle, twinge

agonize, anguish, suffer

afflict, harrow, torment, torture

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