Aching
Sore
Synonyms: Sore, hurting, achy, pinching, bleeding, hurtful, agonizing, excruciating, detrimental, stinging, severe, pernicious, inflamed, raw, itching, festering, chafing, threatening, grievous, painful, damaging, swollen, injurious, nasty, afflictive, burning, torturous, nagging, harmful, cramping, deleterious, tender, noxious, smarting, prickling, pricking, enflamed, and wounding.
Weeping
Synonyms: Weeping, heartbroken, grieving, bitter, anguished, sorry, crying, unhappy, plaintive, depressed, doleful, woeful, rueful, somber, bewailing, deploring, morbid, dolesome, groaning, disconsolate, darkening, keening, miserable, dispirited, inconsolable, despondent, woebegone, forlorn, brokenhearted, crestfallen, gloomy, gray, black, dirgelike, bawling, cheerless, sullen, wretched, low-spirited, comfortless, dismal, saturnine, triste, mournful, funeral, wailing, melancholy, sad, agonized, sorrowful, tearful, regretful, dolorous, lamentable, lugubrious, plangent, bemoaning, dark, bleak, funereal, bleeding, pathetic, suffering, moaning, downcast, elegiac, heartsick, dejected, moody, careworn, desolate, howling, heartsore, glum, grey, elegiacal, downhearted, low, piteous, morose, joyless, sombre, yammering, dreary, and pessimistic.
Hurting
Synonyms: Hurting, tingling, paining, stinging, cramping, biting, festering, suffering, twinging, racking, agonizing, afflicting, torturing, anguishing, throbbing, swelling, smarting, bleeding, itching, burning, nagging, pounding, chafing, pinching, tormenting, twingeing, and harrowing.
Example Sentences
She sat down, her feet aching after the long walk.
His aching heart missed her more each day.
I have an aching back from lifting boxes.
The aching muscles reminded him of yesterday’s workout.
Her eyes were aching from too much screen time.
He held his aching arm gently.
She smiled through her aching sadness.
The cold made his fingers aching and stiff.
My legs are aching after the hike.
He rubbed his aching temples to ease the headache.
