| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| NOUN | 1 | pain, hurting | A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder |
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| 2 | pain, painfulness | Emotional distress | |
| 3 | pain, painful sensation | A somatic sensation of acute discomfort | |
| 4 | pain, pain in the neck, nuisance | A bothersome annoying person | |
| 5 | pain, annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass | Something or someone that causes trouble | |
| VERB | 1 | pain, afflict, trouble, ail | Cause bodily suffering to |
| 2 | pain, anguish, hurt | Cause emotional anguish or make miserable |
| Sounds | pey'n |
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| Rhymes | abstain, again, airplane, and 116 more rhymes in eyn at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder. |
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| Examples | "the patient developed severe pain and distension" |
| Synonyms | hurting |
| Narrower | ache, aching; agony, suffering, excruciation; arthralgia; burn, burning; causalgia; colic, intestinal colic; chest pain; chiralgia; distress; dysmenorrhea; glossalgia, glossodynia; growing pains; hemorrhoid, haemorrhoid, piles; keratalgia; labor pain; mastalgia; melagra; meralgia; metralgia; myalgia, myodynia; nephralgia; neuralgia, neuralgy; odynophagia; orchidalgia; pang; pang, sting; photalgia, photophobia; pleurodynia, pleuralgia, costalgia; podalgia; proctalgia; referred pain; renal colic; smart, smarting; sting, stinging; stitch; tenderness, soreness; thermalgesia; throb; torture, torment; ulalgia; urodynia |
| Broader | symptom |
| Verbs | pain; pain |
| Meaning | Emotional distress. A fundamental feeling that people try to avoid. |
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| Examples | "the pain of loneliness" |
| Synonyms | painfulness |
| Narrower | growing pains; unpleasantness; mental anguish; suffering, hurt; distress, hurt, suffering |
| Broader | feeling |
| Contrary | pleasure, pleasance |
| Verbs | pain |
| Meaning | A somatic sensation of acute discomfort. |
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| Examples | "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain" |
| Synonyms | painful sensation |
| Narrower | mittelschmerz; phantom limb pain; twinge |
| Broader | somesthesia, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation |
| Verbs | pain |
| Meaning | A bothersome annoying person. |
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| Examples | "that kid is a terrible pain" |
| Synonyms | pain in the neck, nuisance |
| Broader | unpleasant person, disagreeable person |
| Meaning | Something or someone that causes trouble. A source of unhappiness. |
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| Synonyms | annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass |
| Narrower | nuisance; irritant, thorn; plague |
| Broader | negative stimulus |
| Verbs | pain |
| Meaning | Cause bodily suffering to. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
| Synonyms | afflict, trouble, ail |
| Narrower | disagree with; erupt, recrudesce, break out |
| Broader | hurt |
| Nouns | pain; pain |
| Meaning | Cause emotional anguish or make miserable. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
| Model | The bad news will pain him |
| Examples | "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school" |
| Synonyms | anguish, hurt |
| Cause to | suffer |
| Narrower | agonize, agonise; try; torment, torture, excruciate, rack |
| Broader | upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit |
| Nouns | pain; pain; pain |