A state of acute pain.

synonyms: agony, excruciation.

Roget 828: mental suffering, pain, dolor; suffering, sufferance; ache, smart etc. (physical pain) 378; passion.    displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet; malaise; inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit; taking; discontent etc. 832.    dejection etc. 837; weariness etc. 841; anhedonia^†.    annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation; plague, bore; bother, botheration; stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre [Fr.]; mauvais quart d'heur [Fr.].    care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal, shock, blow, cark^†, dole, fret, burden, load.    concern, grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness, heartache; carking cares; heavy heart, aching heart, bleeding heart, broken heart; heavy affliction, gnawing grief.    unhappiness, infelicity, misery, tribulation, wretchedness, desolation; despair etc. 859; extremity, prostration, depth of misery.    nightmare, ephialtes^†, incubus.    pang, anguish, agony; torture, torment; purgatory etc. (hell) 982.    hell upon earth; iron age, reign of terror; slough of despond etc. (adversity) 735; peck of troubles; ills that flesh is heir to" etc. (evil) 619 [Hamlet]; miseries of human life; unkindest cut of all" [Julius Caesar]. sufferer, victim, prey, martyr, object of compassion, wretch, shorn lamb.    ... show more

Roget 378: pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance^†; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering etc. 828; dolour, ache; aching etc. v.; smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris [Lat.]; hurt, cut; sore, soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia [Med.], earache, gout, ischiagra^†, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia^†, otalgia^†, podagra^†, rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux [Fr.], toothache, tormina^†, torticollis^†.    spasm, cramp; nightmare, ephialtes^†; crick, stitch; thrill, convulsion, throe; throb etc. (agitation) 315; pang; colic; kink.    sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting, gnawing pain, burning pain; excruciating pain.    anguish, agony; torment, torture; rack; cruciation^†, crucifixion; martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection.    ... show more

Roget 821: feeling; suffering etc. v.; endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance^†, experience, response; sympathy etc. (love) 897; impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense.    warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence; fervor, fervency; heartiness, cordiality; earnestness, eagerness; empressement [Fr.], gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore^†, fanaticism; excitation of feeling etc. 824; fullness of the heart etc. (disposition) 820; passion etc. (state of excitability) 825; ecstasy etc. (pleasure) 827.    blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation etc. (irregular motion) 315; quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.    ... show more

Misery resulting from affliction.

synonym: woe.

Dutch: lijden

Psychological suffering.

synonyms: distress, hurt.

Polish: choroba ducha

Feelings of mental or physical pain.

synonym: hurt.

Polish: cierpienie, ból, męka, udręczenie, tortura, męczarnia, udręka, katusza, gehenna

Troubled by pain or loss.

Very unhappy; full of misery:
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synonyms: miserable, wretched.

Roget 828: in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain etc. n.; suffering etc. v.; pained, afflicted, worried, displeased etc. 830; aching, griped, sore etc. (physical pain) 378; on the rack, in limbo; between hawk and buzzard.    uncomfortable, uneasy; ill at ease; in a taking, in a way; disturbed; discontented etc. 832; out of humor etc. 901.1; weary etc. 841.    heavy laden, stricken, crushed, a prey to, victimized, ill-used.    unfortunate etc. (hapless) 735; to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded; fey.    unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone; cheerless etc. (dejected) 837; careworn.    concerned, sorry; sorrowing, sorrowful; cut up, chagrined, horrified, horror-stricken; in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief etc. n.; in tears etc. (lamenting) 839; steeped to the lips in misery; heart-stricken, heart-broken, heart-scalded; broken-hearted; in despair etc. 859.    ... show more