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 44 synonyms and 33 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for pain

  • ache
  • agony
  • anguish
  • annoyance
  • anxiety
  • attention
  • bitterness
  • burn
  • care
  • carefulness
  • cramp
  • discomfort
  • distress
  • effort
  • exertion
  • fever
  • grief
  • heartache
  • hurt
  • illness
  • injury
  • irritation
  • labor
  • misery
  • nuisance
  • pang
  • pest
  • sadness
  • shock
  • sickness
  • soreness
  • spasm
  • sting
  • strain
  • suffering
  • tenderness
  • tingle
  • torment
  • trouble
  • twinge
  • woe
  • work
  • worry
  • wound

Antonyms for pain

  • advantage
  • aid
  • alleviation
  • assistance
  • benefit
  • blessing
  • calmness
  • charmer
  • cheer
  • comfort
  • comforter
  • consolation
  • contentment
  • delight
  • ease
  • facility
  • fluency
  • gladness
  • good health
  • happiness
  • health
  • heedlessness
  • help
  • inattentiveness
  • joy
  • negligence
  • peace
  • pleasure
  • relief
  • smoothie
  • smoothness
  • solace
  • 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 77 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to pain, such as: ache, advantage, agony, aid, alleviation, anguish, annoyance.

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

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bad

  • adverse
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • badly
  • bitter
  • cheap
  • corrupted
  • cruel
  • crummy
  • damaging
  • dangerous
  • dark
  • defective
  • deficient
  • depressed
  • detrimental
  • disastrous
  • disgusting
  • distressing
  • dreadful
  • evil
  • flawed
  • grim
  • harmful
  • harsh
  • hateful
  • heartbroken
  • horrible
  • illegal
  • immoral
  • imperfect
  • inferior
  • intense
  • invalid
  • lame
  • lousy
  • malicious
  • melancholy
  • mischievous
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  • nasty
  • naughty
  • null
  • null and void
  • painful
  • poor
  • poorly
  • putrid
  • rotten
  • rough
  • sad
  • serious
  • sick
  • sinful
  • sorry
  • sour
  • spoiled
  • terrible
  • ugly
  • unacceptable
  • unfavorable
  • unfortunate
  • unhappy
  • unhealthy
  • unlawful
  • unpleasant
  • unpleasing
  • upset
  • vicious
  • vile
  • void
  • wicked
  • worried
  • wrong

badly

  • awkwardly
  • bad
  • clumsily
  • damn
  • damned
  • deeply
  • desperately
  • extremely
  • far
  • greatly
  • hard
  • heavily
  • highly
  • incredibly
  • intensely
  • much
  • painfully
  • poorly
  • really
  • seriously
  • severely
  • so
  • terribly
  • too
  • very

badness

  • abuse
  • affliction
  • ailment
  • atrocity
  • disease
  • disorder
  • evil
  • evilness
  • illness
  • infirmity
  • malady
  • malaise
  • misery
  • pain
  • sickness
  • sinfulness
  • suffering
  • syndrome
  • trouble
  • woe

daub

  • blacken
  • coat
  • dab
  • deface
  • dirty
  • drawing
  • etching
  • paint
  • portrait
  • sketch
  • smear
  • smudge
  • spatter
  • stain
  • watercolor

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