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Pain   /peɪn/   Listen
Pain

noun
1.
A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder.  Synonym: hurting.
2.
Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.  Synonym: painfulness.  Antonym: pleasure.
3.
A somatic sensation of acute discomfort.  Synonyms: pain sensation, painful sensation.
4.
A bothersome annoying person.  Synonyms: nuisance, pain in the neck.
5.
Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness.  Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain in the ass, pain in the neck.  "A bit of a bother" , "He's not a friend, he's an infliction"
verb
(past & past part. pained; pres. part. paining)
1.
Cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed.  Synonyms: ail, trouble.
2.
Cause emotional anguish or make miserable.  Synonyms: anguish, hurt.



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"Pain" Quotes from Famous Books



... passed by his brother's door, Saw his brother lying on the floor; What aileth thee, brother! Pain in the teeth. Thy teeth shall pain thee no more, In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, I command the pain to ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86

... very vague apprehension of what he was about to do. The sharp, stinging stroke of the ruler the next moment upon her open palm, made her understand very thoroughly. It drew from her one cry of mixed pain and terror; but after that first forced exclamation Daisy covered her face with her other hand and did not speak again. Tears, that she could not help, came plentifully; for the punishment was sufficiently severe, and it broke her heart that her father ...
— Melbourne House, Volume 1 • Susan Warner

... muffled and inarticulate from the depths of the pillow; and once a great storm of sobs shook her—sobs which drenched the old scented linen with tears. But for the most part she lay in silence with her hands clenched and rigid, and thus did she pass along the way of Pain to ...
— Mufti • H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

... say: I will be yours for ever, Though ye me slay by Cruelty, your foe; Yet shall my spirit nevermore dissever From your service, for any pain or woe, Pity, whom I have sought so long ago! Thus for your death I may well weep and plain, With heart all sore, and ...
— Chaucer • Adolphus William Ward

... I happen to remember that calendula, which takes the pain out of a cut finger most amazingly, ...
— Ethel Morton's Enterprise • Mabell S.C. Smith


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