pain - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a somatic sensation of acute discomfort

Synonyms

• pain
• pain sensation
• painful sensation

More generic

• somaesthesia
• somatesthesia
• somatic sensation
• somesthesia

More specific

• mittelschmerz
• phantom limb pain
• twinge

Noun

something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness

Synonyms

• annoyance
• bother
• botheration
• infliction
• pain
• pain in the ass
• pain in the neck

More generic

• negative stimulus

More specific

• irritant
• nuisance
• plague
• thorn

Noun

emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid

Synonyms

• pain
• painfulness

More generic

• feeling

Opposite / Antonyms

• pleasure

More specific

• distress
• growing pains
• hurt
• mental anguish
• suffering
• unpleasantness

Noun

a bothersome annoying person

Synonyms

• nuisance
• pain
• pain in the neck

More generic

• disagreeable person
• unpleasant person

Noun

a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder

Synonyms

• hurting
• pain

More generic

• symptom

More specific

• ache
• aching
• agony
• arthralgia
• burn
• burning
• causalgia
• chest pain
• chiralgia
• colic
• costalgia
• distress
• dysmenorrhea
• excruciation
• glossalgia
• glossodynia
• gripes
• griping
• growing pains
• intestinal colic
• keratalgia
• labor pain
• mastalgia
• melagra
• meralgia
• metralgia
• myalgia
• myodynia
• nephralgia
• neuralgia
• neuralgy
• odynophagia
• orchidalgia
• pang
• photalgia
• photophobia
• pleuralgia
• pleurodynia
• podalgia
• proctalgia
• rawness
• referred pain
• renal colic
• smart
• smarting
• smartness
• soreness
• sting
• stinging
• stitch
• suffering
• tenderness
• thermalgesia
• throb
• torment
• torture
• ulalgia
• urodynia

Verb

cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed

Synonyms

• ail
• pain
• trouble

More generic

• hurt

More specific

• break out
• erupt
• recrudesce

Verb

cause emotional anguish or make miserable

Synonyms

• anguish
• hurt
• pain

More generic

• discomfit
• discompose
• disconcert
• untune
• upset

More specific

• agonise
• agonize
• break someone's heart
• excruciate
• rack
• torment
• torture
• try

Related

• suffer

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