pain

The word “pain” has 1 syllable: pain

It's pronounced as /peɪn/

What is synonym and antonym for pain?

In the thesaurus, “pain” has 212 synonyms and 72 antonyms.

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

Synonyms for pain

ache
advertence
advertency
afflict
affliction
aggravation
aggrieve
agonize
agony
ail
alertness
anguish
annoy
annoyance
annoyer
anxiety
asperity
attempt
attention
backache
bellyache
bite
bitterness
bleed
bore
bother
burn
care
carefulness
catch
chafe
charley horse
chasten
closeness
colic
complaint
concentration
conscientiousness
constrain
convulse
convulsion
cramp
crick
cross
crucible
cut to the quick
damage
danger
despondency
detriment
difficulty
dint
discomfort
disquiet
distress
drag
drudgery
dutifulness
earache
effort
elbow grease
emergency
endeavor
energy
essay
exactness
exasperate
excruciate
excruciation
exertion
expenditure
fester
fever
fling
focus
force
gadfly
gall
gnawer
go
grief
grieve
grind
gripe
harass
harasser
hardship
harm
harrier
harrow
hassle
headache
heartache
heartbreak
heckler
heed
heedfulness
hit where one lives
hurt
illness
inflame
inflammation
injure
injury
interrupter
interruptor
irk
irreproachability
irreproachableness
irritate
irritation
itch
jeopardy
joylessness
labor
laceration
malady
malaise
martyrdom
meticulosity
meticulousness
might
mindfulness
misery
molester
muscle
nag
nick
nudnick
nudnik
nuisance
observance
observation
pain in the neck
painstaking
pang
paroxysm
particularity
pass
persecutor
pest
pinch
plague
pound
power
precision
prick
puissance
punctiliousness
punish
rack
responsibility
rigor
rile
sadden
sadness
scrupulousness
shock
shoot
shot
sickness
slog
smart
smarting
sore
soreness
sorrow
spasm
stab
sting
stitch
stomachache
strain
stress
suffer
sufferance
suffering
sweat
swell
swelling
tease
teaser
tenderness
throb
throe
tingle
toil
toothache
torment
tormenter
tormentor
torture
torturer
travail
trial
tribulation
trouble
try
twinge
unhappiness
upset
vex
vexation
vigilance
watchfulness
whack
while
woe
work
worry
wound
wretchedness

Antonyms for pain

adroitness
advantage
aid
alleviate
alleviation
appease
assist
assistance
assuage
assuagement
benefit
blessing
calm
calmness
charmer
cheer
comfort
comforter
consolation
contentment
cure
delight
dormancy
ease
easiness
encourage
facility
fix
fluency
gladness
good health
happiness
heal
health
heedlessness
help
idleness
inaction
inactivity
inadvertence
inadvertency
inattention
inattentiveness
indolence
inertia
inobservance
irritation
joy
languor
laziness
let go
make happy
mend
negligence
peace
placate
please
pleasure
praise
quiescence
relief
relieve
security
smoothie
smoothness
smoothy
solace
solacer
soothe
soother
well-being
wellness

Meanings of pain

noun
1. An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
2. The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress.
3. (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
4. Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
5. (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
6. Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
verb
1. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
2. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
3. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

Example Sentences

Pain shot through his ankle as he twisted it on the uneven pavement.
She winced in pain as the dentist drilled into her tooth.
Chronic back pain made it difficult for him to sit for long periods.
The artist expressed her emotional pain through her powerful paintings.
The medication provided relief from the constant pain in her joints.

On this page you'll find 284 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to pain, such as: ache, adroitness, advantage, advertence, advertency, afflict, affliction.

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