English noun: pain | |||
1. | pain (state) a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder | ||
Samples | The patient developed severe pain and distension. | ||
Synonyms | hurting | ||
Broader (hypernym) | symptom | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | ache, aching, agony, arthralgia, burn, burning, causalgia, chest pain, chiralgia, colic, costalgia, distress, dysmenorrhea, excruciation, glossalgia, glossodynia, gripes, griping, growing pains, haemorrhoid, hemorrhoid, intestinal colic, keratalgia, labor pain, mastalgia, melagra, meralgia, metralgia, myalgia, myodynia, nephralgia, neuralgia, neuralgy, odynophagia, orchidalgia, pang, pang, photalgia, photophobia, piles, pleuralgia, pleurodynia, podalgia, proctalgia, rawness, referred pain, renal colic, smart, smarting, smartness, soreness, sting, sting, stinging, stitch, suffering, tenderness, thermalgesia, throb, torment, torture, ulalgia, urodynia | ||
2. | pain (feeling) emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid | ||
Samples | The pain of loneliness. | ||
Synonyms | painfulness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | feeling | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | distress, growing pains, hurt, hurt, mental anguish, suffering, suffering, unpleasantness | ||
Antonyms | pleasure, pleasance | ||
3. | pain (cognition) a somatic sensation of acute discomfort | ||
Samples | As the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain. | ||
Synonyms | pain sensation, painful sensation | ||
Broader (hypernym) | somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | mittelschmerz, phantom limb pain, twinge | ||
4. | pain (person) a bothersome annoying person | ||
Samples | That kid is a terrible pain. | ||
Synonyms | nuisance, pain in the neck | ||
Broader (hypernym) | disagreeable person, unpleasant person | ||
5. | pain (cognition) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | ||
Samples | 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. | ||
Synonyms | annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain in the ass, pain in the neck | ||
Broader (hypernym) | negative stimulus | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | irritant, nuisance, plague, thorn | ||
English verb: pain | |||
1. | pain (body) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | ||
Synonyms | ail, trouble | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | hurt | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | break out, erupt, recrudesce | ||
2. | pain (emotion) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | ||
Samples | It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school. | ||
Examples | The bad news will pain him | ||
Synonyms | anguish, hurt | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, upset | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | agonise, agonize, break someone's heart, excruciate, rack, torment, torture, try | ||
Cause | suffer | ||