Thesaurus:pain

Thesaurus

pain

English

Noun

Sense: bodily suffering

Synonyms

• pain
• wark (dialectal)

Antonyms

• pleasure    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• ache
• agony    [⇒ thesaurus]
• anguish
• pang
• torment
• throe
•   —
• neuropathic pain
• nociceptive pain
• phantom pain
• psychogenic pain
•   —
• back pain
• backache
• bellyache
• earache
• headache
• lumbago
• stomachache
• toothache
• hemicrania
• migraine
•   —
• aerodontalgia
• arthralgia
• causalgia
• cephalalgia
• chiralgia
• costalgia
• fibromyalgia
• gastralgia
• glossalgia
• keratalgia
• mastalgia
• meralgia
• metralgia
• myalgia
• nephralgia
• neuralgia
• nostalgia
• odontalgia
• orchidalgia
• otalgia
• photalgia
• pleuralgia
• podalgia
• proctalgia
• ulalgia
•   —
• sciatica

Hypernyms

• sensation    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:agony
• -algia

Further reading

• “378. physical pain” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “pain” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.