pain
1. a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder (Freq. 32)
- the patient developed severe pain and distension
• Syn:
hurting
• Derivationally related forms:
hurt (for: hurting)
• Hypernyms:
symptom
• Hyponyms:
ache, aching, agony, suffering, excruciation,
arthralgia, burn, burning, causalgia, colic, intestinal colic,
gripes, griping, 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, sting, photalgia, photophobia, pleurodynia,
pleuralgia, costalgia, podalgia, proctalgia, referred pain, renal colic,
smart, smarting, smartness, stinging, stitch, tenderness,
soreness, rawness, thermalgesia, throb, torture, torment,
ulalgia, urodynia
2. emotional distress;
a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid (Freq. 14)
- the pain of loneliness
• Syn:
painfulness
• Ant:
pleasure
• Derivationally related forms:
painful (for: painfulness)
• Hypernyms:
feeling
• Hyponyms:
growing pains, unpleasantness, mental anguish, suffering, hurt, distress
3. a somatic sensation of acute discomfort (Freq. 9)
- as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain
• Syn:
pain sensation, painful sensation
• Hypernyms:
somesthesia, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation
• Hyponyms:
mittelschmerz, phantom limb pain, twinge
4. a bothersome annoying person
- that kid is a terrible pain
• Syn:
pain in the neck, nuisance
• Hypernyms:
unpleasant person, disagreeable person
5. 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
• Syn:
annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass
• Derivationally related forms:
bother (for: botheration), bother (for: bother)
• Hypernyms:
negative stimulus
• Hyponyms:
nuisance, irritant, thorn, plague
1. cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
trouble, ail
• Derivationally related forms:
ailment (for: ail), trouble (for: trouble)
• Hypernyms:
hurt
• Hyponyms:
erupt, recrudesce, break out
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
2. cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school
• Syn:
anguish, hurt
• Derivationally related forms:
hurt (for: hurt), anguish (for: anguish)
• Hypernyms:
upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit
• Hyponyms:
break someone's heart, agonize, agonise, try, torment,
torture, excruciate, rack
• Cause:
suffer
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- The bad news will pain him
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