Pain

Quick meaning: Pain is a noun meaning (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress.

Meaning

(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress.

More Meanings

1. (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
2. (uncountable, dated) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
3. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
5. (countable and uncountable) 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.
6. (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
7. (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.

Example Sentences

Your mother is a right pain.

The pain of departure was difficult to bear.

You may not leave this room on pain of death.

In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.

Word Forms

• pains
• paine
• paining
• pained

Synonyms for pain

Depending on context, synonyms include misery, wark, anguish, rend, difficulty, distress.

Antonyms for pain

Common opposites include pleasure, beatitude, bliss, delectation, ecstasy, euphoria.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include afflict, painfulness, hurting, anguish, ail, hurt.

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