pains

The word “pains” has 1 syllable: pains.

It's pronounced as /peɪnz/.


What is synonym and antonym for pains?

In the thesaurus, “pains” has 72 synonyms and 37 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for pains

  • aches
  • achievement
  • activity
  • agony
  • anguish
  • attempt
  • attention
  • battle
  • burden
  • business
  • care
  • carefulness
  • charge
  • chore
  • clash
  • combat
  • commission
  • commitment
  • concern
  • conflict
  • conscientiousness
  • contest
  • contract
  • creation
  • difficulty
  • diligence
  • effort
  • employment
  • encounter
  • endeavor
  • energy
  • enterprise
  • exercise
  • exertion
  • fastidiousness
  • force
  • function
  • hardship
  • heed
  • hurts
  • inconvenience
  • industry
  • intention
  • job
  • labor
  • meticulousness
  • need
  • obligation
  • office
  • performance
  • power
  • production
  • push
  • resolution
  • role
  • scrupulousness
  • service
  • skirmish
  • strain
  • strength
  • stress
  • strife
  • struggle
  • sweat
  • task
  • training
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • violence
  • woe
  • work
  • worry

Antonyms for pains

  • accord
  • advantage
  • agreement
  • benefit
  • calm
  • calmness
  • comfort
  • destruction
  • ease
  • entertainment
  • facility
  • fluency
  • fun
  • happiness
  • heedlessness
  • idleness
  • inactivity
  • inattention
  • inattentiveness
  • incompetence
  • indolence
  • joy
  • laziness
  • lethargy
  • negligence
  • passivity
  • pastime
  • peace
  • profit
  • retreat
  • ruin
  • smoothness
  • success
  • surrender
  • truce
  • unemployment
  • weakness

Meanings of pains

  • 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

  • She took great pains to ensure that every detail of the project was perfect.
  • Despite her pains to hide her emotions, her sadness was evident in her eyes.
  • He went to great pains to apologize for his mistake and make amends.
  • The artist took pains to capture the essence of the landscape in his painting.
  • It's important to listen to your body's pains and signals to prevent injury during exercise.

On this page you'll find 109 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to pains, such as: accord, aches, achievement, activity, advantage, agony, agreement.

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

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effort

  • achievement
  • attempt
  • battle
  • creation
  • endeavor
  • exercise
  • exertion
  • expenditure
  • force
  • industry
  • intention
  • pains
  • power
  • production
  • push
  • resolution
  • struggle
  • sweat
  • training
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