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pain
noun as in physical suffering
noun as in mental suffering
Strongest matches
agony, anguish, anxiety, bitterness, grief, heartache, misery, sadness, shock, suffering, torment, woe, worry
Strong matches
affliction, despondency, distress, hurt, malaise, martyrdom, rack, torture, travail, tribulation, wretchedness
noun as in problem
verb as in bother, trouble
Strong matches
ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, anguish, annoy, bite, chafe, chasten, constrain, convulse, discomfort, disquiet, distress, exasperate, excruciate, gall, grieve, gripe, harass, harm, harrow, hurt, inflame, injure, irk, irritate, nick, prick, punish, rack, rile, sadden, smart, sting, strain, stress, suffer, throb, tingle, torment, torture, upset, vex, worry, wound
Weak matches
Example Sentences
He closed his eyes, imagining the virgins, imagining away the pain in his head and groin.
Throughout all the stories of loss and pain with the Chief, there was barely a trace of emotion.
He not only gives out pain — he is in constant, unrelenting pain.
If laughter is the best medicine, The Comeback made you feel enough pain to need a dose—and then it delivered in spades.
Just two young kids experiencing the panic, pain, and then the miracle, of new birth.
He shrank, as from some one who inflicted pain as a child, unwittingly, to see what the effect would be.
She stabbed him, noting the effect upon him with a detached interest that seemed indifferent to his pain.
Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.
I laved his pain-twisted face with the cool water and let a few drops trickle into his open mouth.
Instinctively he tried to hide both pain and anger—it could only increase this distance that was already there.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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