achy

The word “achy” has 2 syllables: ach-y

It's pronounced as /ˈeɪki/


What is synonym and antonym for achy?

In the thesaurus, “achy” has 39 synonyms and 6 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for achy along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for achy

  • aching
  • afflictive
  • agonizing
  • bleeding
  • burning
  • chafing
  • cramping
  • damaging
  • deleterious
  • detrimental
  • enflamed
  • excruciating
  • festering
  • grievous
  • harmful
  • hurtful
  • hurting
  • inflamed
  • injurious
  • itching
  • nagging
  • nasty
  • noxious
  • painful
  • pernicious
  • pinching
  • pricking
  • prickling
  • raw
  • severe
  • smarting
  • sore
  • stinging
  • swollen
  • tender
  • threatening
  • throbbing
  • torturous
  • wounding

Antonyms for achy

  • curative
  • healing
  • helping
  • indolent
  • painless
  • remedial

Meanings of achy

  • adjective
    1. Suffering from aches, sore.

Example Sentences

  • After the workout, his muscles felt achy and sore.
  • She had an achy feeling in her back after sitting for too long.
  • The flu left him feeling tired and achy all over.
  • His head felt achy, and he decided to take a break.
  • The cold weather made her joints feel achy and stiff.

On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to achy, such as: aching, afflictive, agonizing, bleeding, burning, chafing, cramping.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

nagging

  • aching
  • achy
  • afflictive
  • agonizing
  • alarming
  • annoying
  • arduous
  • awful
  • badgering
  • baiting
  • beefing
  • begging
  • bellyaching
  • bemoaning
  • bewailing
  • bitching
  • biting
  • blandishing
  • bleating
  • blubbering
  • bothering
  • bugging
  • burning
  • cajoling
  • carping
  • caterwauling
  • caustic
  • caviling
  • cavilling
  • chilling
  • chivvying
  • chivying
  • coaxing
  • complaining
  • crabbing
  • croaking
  • crying
  • daunting
  • demoralizing
  • deploring
  • difficult
  • dire
  • direful
  • disagreeable
  • discomfiting
  • discomforting
  • discomposing
  • disconcerting
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dismaying
  • dispiriting
  • disquieting
  • distasteful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • dogging
  • dread
  • dreadful
  • egging
  • excruciating
  • exhorting
  • extreme
  • extremely bad
  • fearful
  • fearsome
  • forbidding
  • formidable
  • fretting
  • frightening
  • frightful
  • fussing
  • ghastly
  • goading
  • grievous
  • griping
  • grizzling
  • grouching
  • grousing
  • growling
  • grumbling
  • grumping
  • hair-raising
  • harassing
  • hard
  • harrowing
  • harrying
  • hassling
  • henpecking
  • hollering
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • horrifying
  • hounding
  • hurtful
  • hurting
  • importuning
  • inciting
  • inflamed
  • insisting
  • intimidating
  • inveighing
  • irking
  • irritated
  • keening
  • kicking
  • kicking up a fuss
  • kicking up a stink
  • kvetching
  • laborious
  • lamenting
  • maundering
  • moaning
  • murmuring
  • muttering
  • nasty
  • needling
  • nitpicking
  • persecutive
  • persecutory
  • perturbing
  • pestering
  • picking at
  • piercing
  • plaguing
  • pleading
  • pressing
  • pressuring
  • prodding
  • prompting
  • protesting
  • pushing
  • quibbling
  • raw
  • repining
  • riding
  • saddening
  • scary
  • screaming
  • sensitive
  • severe
  • sharp
  • shocking
  • smarting
  • sobbing
  • sore
  • spurring
  • squawking
  • squealing
  • stewing
  • stinging
  • tedious
  • tender
  • terrible
  • terrifying
  • throbbing
  • tormenting
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • troublous
  • trying
  • uncomfortable
  • unpleasant
  • unsettling
  • upsetting
  • urging
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • wailing
  • wheedling
  • whimpering
  • whingeing
  • whinging
  • whining
  • worrisome
  • worrying
  • yammering
  • yauping
  • yawping
  • yowling

saddening

  • acheronian
  • acherontic
  • aching
  • achy
  • affecting
  • afflicting
  • afflictive
  • agitating
  • agonizing
  • ailing
  • arduous
  • awful
  • bad
  • beefing
  • bellyaching
  • biting
  • black
  • bleak
  • blue
  • bothering
  • burdening
  • burning
  • calamitous
  • cantankerous
  • caustic
  • cheerless
  • cold
  • comfortless
  • concerning
  • crabby
  • cranky
  • crushing
  • dark
  • dashing
  • daunting
  • dejected
  • dejecting
  • demoralizing
  • deplorable
  • depressant
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desolate
  • despondent
  • destroyed
  • difficult
  • dire
  • disagreeable
  • disastrous
  • discomforting
  • discomposing
  • disconsolate
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • dismaying
  • dispirited
  • dispiriting
  • disquieting
  • distasteful
  • distressful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • down
  • down and out
  • down in the dumps
  • down in the mouth
  • downbeat
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • drab
  • dragged
  • dreadful
  • drear
  • dreary
  • droopy
  • dull
  • dusky
  • excruciating
  • exercising
  • extreme
  • extremely bad
  • funereal
  • getting down
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • grave
  • grief-stricken
  • grievous
  • grim
  • grousing
  • grumpy
  • hapless
  • hard
  • harrowing
  • have the blahs
  • heart-rending
  • heart-wrenching
  • heartbreaking
  • heartrending
  • heavy
  • heavy-hearted
  • hopeless
  • hurtful
  • hurting
  • in blue funk
  • inflamed
  • irritated
  • joyless
  • laborious
  • lachrymose
  • lamentable
  • lamenting
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • mirthless
  • miserable
  • moody
  • moony
  • mopey
  • morose
  • mournful
  • moving
  • nagging
  • oppressing
  • oppressive
  • out of sorts
  • pathetic
  • pensive
  • perturbing
  • piercing
  • piteous
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • poignant
  • raw
  • regrettable
  • rueful
  • sad
  • saddened
  • sensitive
  • serious
  • severe
  • shabby
  • sharp
  • smarting
  • somber
  • sore
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • stinging
  • tear-jerking
  • tearful
  • teary
  • tedious
  • tender
  • tenebrific
  • terrible
  • throbbing
  • tormenting
  • torn-up
  • torturing
  • touching
  • tragic
  • trite
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • trying
  • uncomfortable
  • undoing
  • unfortunate
  • unhappy
  • unhinging
  • unnerving
  • unpleasant
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsettling
  • upsetting
  • vexatious
  • wailing
  • weighing down
  • wet blanket
  • wistful
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • worrying
  • wretched

bad

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • abominably
  • abomination
  • abysmal
  • abysmally
  • achy
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • acute
  • addled
  • admirable
  • adverse
  • afflicted
  • aggravating
  • aggrieved
  • agonized
  • ailing
  • airsick
  • amiss
  • anathema
  • anguished
  • annoying
  • appalling
  • arch
  • atrocious
  • atrociously
  • atrociousness
  • atrocity
  • awe-inspiring
  • awful
  • awfully
  • babyish
  • badass
  • badly
  • badness
  • baleful
  • balefulness
  • balky
  • baneful
  • banned
  • bargain-basement
  • barred
  • base
  • bastard
  • beastly
  • below par
  • bilious
  • bitchy
  • bitter
  • black
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bleak
  • blemished
  • blue
  • broken
  • brokenhearted
  • brummagem
  • brutal
  • bum
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • cancer
  • canker
  • careless
  • carsick
  • cast down
  • catty
  • caustic
  • censurable
  • challenged
  • cheap
  • cheapjack
  • cheeky
  • cheerless
  • cheesy
  • childish
  • coarse
  • comfortless
  • common
  • condemned
  • conscience-stricken
  • contagious
  • contaminated
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • contrary
  • contrite
  • cool
  • corroded
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • corruption
  • counterfeit
  • crappy
  • crestfallen
  • criminal
  • crippled
  • critical
  • cruddy
  • cruel
  • crumbled
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • curdled
  • cursed
  • curst
  • cussed
  • cut-rate
  • damaged
  • damaging
  • damnable
  • damnably
  • dangerous
  • dark
  • darkening
  • darkness
  • deadly
  • debased
  • debauched
  • debauchery
  • debilitated
  • decay
  • decayed
  • decaying
  • decomposed
  • decomposing
  • decrepit
  • defaced
  • defective
  • defiant
  • deficient
  • deficiently
  • defiled
  • defiling
  • degeneracy
  • degenerate
  • degenerated
  • dejected
  • deleterious
  • delinquent
  • deplorable
  • deplorably
  • depraved
  • depravedness
  • depravity
  • deprecating
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • derogatory
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • despicable
  • despiteful
  • despondent
  • destructive
  • deteriorated
  • detestable
  • detestably
  • detrimental
  • devastating
  • devilishness
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • devious
  • diabolism
  • difficult
  • dirty
  • disabled
  • disadvantageous
  • disagreeable
  • disallowed
  • disappointed
  • disastrous
  • disastrously
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • discouraging
  • disdainful
  • diseased
  • disfigured
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • disheartened
  • dishonest
  • dishonorable
  • disintegrated
  • disintegrating
  • dismal
  • disobedient
  • disobliging
  • disordered
  • disorderly
  • disparaging
  • dispirited
  • displeasing
  • disreputable
  • disrespectful
  • dissatisfactory
  • dissolute
  • distasteful
  • distressed
  • distressing
  • dizzy
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • down
  • down in the mouth
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • dreadful
  • dreadfully
  • drear
  • dreary
  • droopy
  • egregious
  • egregiously
  • el cheapo
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • elfish
  • enormity
  • envious
  • errant
  • erring
  • erroneous
  • evil
  • evil-minded
  • evildoing
  • evilness
  • execrable
  • execrably
  • extreme
  • fake
  • fallen
  • fallible
  • fatal
  • faulty
  • feeble
  • fermented
  • feverish
  • fiendishness
  • fierce
  • flagrant
  • flagrantly
  • flashy
  • flawed
  • forbidden
  • forlorn
  • foul
  • fouled
  • fragile
  • frail
  • from hunger
  • froward
  • funereal
  • galling
  • gangrenous
  • garish
  • gaudy
  • ghastly
  • gimcrack
  • glitzy
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • gnarly
  • god-awful
  • godawful
  • grand
  • grave
  • gray
  • grey
  • grieving
  • grim
  • gross
  • grossly
  • guilty
  • half-assed
  • halt
  • hangdog
  • harmed
  • harmful
  • harsh
  • hateful
  • hazardous
  • headstrong
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • heavyhearted
  • heinousness
  • hellish
  • hideous
  • hopeless
  • horrendous
  • horrendously
  • horrible
  • horribly
  • horrid
  • horrifically
  • hostile
  • hurt
  • hurtful
  • hypochondriac
  • hypochondriacal
  • icky
  • ignoble
  • ill
  • ill-behaved
  • ill-mannered
  • ill-natured
  • illegal
  • immature
  • immoral
  • immorality
  • impaired
  • imperfect
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • impish
  • impolite
  • imposing
  • impressive
  • improper
  • impudent
  • impure
  • in pain
  • inadequate
  • inadequately
  • inappropriately
  • incapacitated
  • incomplete
  • inconsiderate
  • inconsolable
  • incorrect
  • incorrectly
  • indecency
  • indecent
  • indecently
  • indecorous
  • indifferent
  • indisposed
  • ineffective
  • ineffectual
  • infamous
  • infantile
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inferior
  • inferiorly
  • infernal
  • infirm
  • inimical
  • iniquitous
  • iniquitousness
  • iniquity
  • injured
  • injurious
  • inoperative
  • insidious
  • insolent
  • insufficient
  • insufficiently
  • insurgent
  • intense
  • interdicted
  • intimidating
  • intolerably
  • intractable
  • invalid
  • invidious
  • irreverent
  • irritating
  • jaundiced
  • jealous
  • jejune
  • jeopardizing
  • joyless
  • junky
  • juvenile
  • kiddish
  • killer
  • kitsch
  • kitschy
  • knavish
  • lachrymose
  • lacking
  • lackluster
  • lame
  • lesser
  • lethal
  • libertine
  • light-headed
  • loathsome
  • loose
  • lousily
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-minded
  • low-rent
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • malefaction
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • marred
  • meager
  • meagerly
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mean-spirited
  • meanly
  • mediocre
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • menacing
  • meretricious
  • mighty
  • mildewy
  • misbehaving
  • mischievous
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserably
  • miserly
  • moldering
  • moldy
  • monkeying
  • monkeyish
  • morbid
  • morose
  • mournful
  • murky
  • mutinous
  • nasty
  • naughtily
  • naughty
  • nauseated
  • nauseating
  • nauseous
  • nefarious
  • negative
  • niggardly
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • nonbinding
  • nonvalid
  • noxious
  • nugatory
  • null
  • null and void
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • obstreperous
  • odious
  • odiously
  • off
  • offensive
  • ominous
  • on the blink
  • opprobrious
  • ornery
  • ostentatious
  • out of sorts
  • outlawed
  • painful
  • paltry
  • parlous
  • pathetic
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • perverse
  • perversion
  • perverted
  • pervertedness
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pixieish
  • plaintive
  • poisonous
  • polluted
  • poor
  • poorly
  • poxy
  • prankish
  • prejudicial
  • prohibited
  • proscribed
  • puerile
  • punk
  • putrefied
  • putrefying
  • putrescent
  • putrid
  • qualmish
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • rancid
  • rancorous
  • rank
  • rascally
  • rebellious
  • recalcitrant
  • refractory
  • regretful
  • remorseful
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • reprehensible
  • reprehensibly
  • reprobate
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • resentful
  • restive
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • risky
  • roguish
  • rot
  • rotten
  • rottenly
  • rotting
  • rowdy
  • rubbishy
  • rude
  • rueful
  • ruffianly
  • ruinous
  • run-down
  • sad
  • saddened
  • sassy
  • satanism
  • saturnine
  • scandalous
  • scantily
  • scantly
  • scanty
  • scathing
  • schlock
  • schlocky
  • scornful
  • scoundrelly
  • scrofulous
  • scurrility
  • scurrilous
  • scurrilousness
  • scurvy
  • seamy
  • seasick
  • second-class
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • selfish
  • serious
  • severe
  • shabbily
  • shabby
  • shaky
  • sham
  • shameful
  • shlock
  • shlocky
  • shocking
  • shoddily
  • shoddy
  • short
  • showy
  • sick
  • sickened
  • sickening
  • sickish
  • sickly
  • sin
  • sinful
  • sinfulness
  • sinister
  • skimp
  • skimpily
  • skimpy
  • sleazily
  • sleazy
  • slipshod
  • sly
  • snakelike
  • snide
  • snotty
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sordid
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • sour
  • soured
  • sourish
  • spare
  • sparely
  • spiteful
  • splashy
  • spoiled
  • squalor
  • squeamish
  • stingily
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • suicidal
  • sullen
  • sunk
  • supercheap
  • swank
  • swanky
  • symptomatic
  • taboo
  • tabu
  • tacky
  • tainted
  • tawdry
  • tearful
  • terrible
  • terribly
  • thoughtless
  • threatening
  • tough
  • toxic
  • transgressing
  • trashily
  • trashy
  • troubled
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • trumpery
  • turned
  • ugly
  • ultracheap
  • unacceptable
  • unacceptably
  • unauthorized
  • unbearably
  • unbecoming
  • unclean
  • uncongenial
  • uncontrollable
  • uncouth
  • under par
  • under the weather
  • uneasy
  • unethical
  • unfavorable
  • unfortunate
  • unfriendly
  • ungodly
  • ungovernable
  • unhappy
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthy
  • unholy
  • unkind
  • unkindly
  • unlawful
  • unlovely
  • unloving
  • unmannerly
  • unpalatable
  • unpleasant
  • unpleasing
  • unprincipled
  • unquiet
  • unrighteous
  • unruly
  • unsafe
  • unsatisfactorily
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsavory
  • unscrupulous
  • unseemly
  • unsound
  • unspeakable
  • unspeakably
  • unsuitably
  • untoward
  • unwelcome
  • unwell
  • unwholesome
  • upset
  • upsetting
  • useless
  • valueless
  • venomous
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • vicious
  • vile
  • vilely
  • vileness
  • villainous
  • villainy
  • vindictive
  • virulent
  • vitiated
  • vitriolic
  • void
  • vulgar
  • vulgarly
  • wack
  • waggish
  • wailing
  • wanting
  • wayward
  • weak
  • weakly
  • weeping
  • wicked
  • wickedness
  • wild
  • wilful
  • willful
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • woozy
  • worried
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wretchedly
  • wrong
  • wrongheaded
  • yucky
  • yukky

ill

  • Cimmerian
  • a wreck
  • abominable
  • abomination
  • abuse
  • abusively
  • abysmal
  • accident
  • achy
  • acrimonious
  • adverse
  • adversity
  • affection
  • afflicted
  • affliction
  • aggressively
  • ail
  • ailing
  • ailment
  • airsick
  • anathema
  • antagonistic
  • assertively
  • atrocious
  • atrociousness
  • atrocity
  • attack
  • awful
  • bad
  • badness
  • baleful
  • balefulness
  • baneful
  • bastard
  • below par
  • black
  • bleak
  • blow
  • body blow
  • bout
  • brutal
  • brutally
  • brutishly
  • bug
  • bum
  • bummed
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • by no means
  • calamity
  • callously
  • cancer
  • canker
  • cantankerous
  • carsick
  • casualty
  • cataclysm
  • catastrophe
  • challenged
  • cheerless
  • cheesy
  • chill
  • circumstance
  • cloudy
  • coarse
  • cold
  • cold-bloodedly
  • comfortless
  • common
  • complaint
  • complication
  • condition
  • contagion
  • contagious
  • contagious disease
  • contagium
  • corruption
  • counterfeit
  • crappy
  • cross
  • cruddy
  • cruelty
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • curse
  • cut-rate
  • damage
  • damaging
  • damnable
  • dangerous
  • dark
  • darkening
  • darkness
  • deadly
  • debauchery
  • debilitated
  • debility
  • decay
  • decidedly
  • decrepit
  • decrepitude
  • defeat
  • defective
  • deficient
  • degeneracy
  • deleterious
  • deplorable
  • depravedness
  • depravity
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desolate
  • destiny
  • destruction
  • destructive
  • determinedly
  • detestable
  • detrimental
  • devilishness
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • diabolism
  • dim
  • dire
  • direful
  • disabled
  • disappointment
  • disaster
  • disastrous
  • disconsolate
  • discouraging
  • disease
  • diseased
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • disorder
  • disordered
  • disrespectful
  • dissatisfactory
  • distemper
  • distemperature
  • distress
  • disturbing
  • dizzy
  • doom
  • doomy
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  • wrong

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  • pernicious
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  • poison
  • poisonous
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  • porny
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  • repellant
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