Definition
[n] a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain"
[n] something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"
[n] emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; "the pain of loneliness"
[n] a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain"
[n] a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension"
[v] cause bodily suffering to
[v] cause anguish or make miserable
Synonyms
afflict, ail, anguish, annoyance, bother, botheration, hurt, hurting, infliction, nuisance, pain in the ass, pain in the neck, pain in the neck, painful sensation, painfulness, trouble
Antonyms
pleasance, pleasure
See Also...
ache, aching, agonise, agonize, agony, arthralgia, break out, burn, burning, causalgia, chest pain, chiralgia, colic, costalgia, disagree with, disagreeable person, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, distress, distress, dysmenorrhea, erupt, excruciate, excruciation, feeling, glossalgia, glossodynia, growing pains, growing pains, haemorrhoid, hemorrhoid, hurt, hurt, intestinal colic, irritant, keratalgia, labor pain, mastalgia, melagra, mental anguish, meralgia, metralgia, mittelschmerz, myalgia, myodynia, negative stimulus, nephralgia, neuralgia, neuralgy, nuisance, odynophagia, orchidalgia, pang, pang, phantom limb pain, photalgia, photophobia, piles, plague, pleuralgia, pleurodynia, podalgia, proctalgia, rack, recrudesce, referred pain, renal colic, smart, smarting, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia, soreness, sting, stinging, stitch, suffer, suffering, suffering, symptom, tenderness, thermalgesia, thorn, throb, torment, torment, torture, torture, try, twinge, twinge, ulalgia, unpleasant person, unpleasantness, untune, upset, urodynia
Related Terms
abscess, ache, aching, afflict, affliction, aggrieve, agonize, agony, ague, ail, anemia, anguish, ankylosis, annoyance, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, assiduousness, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, barb the dart, bite, bitterness, bleakness, bleeding, bl
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