Pain Synonyms

1. suffering

• Ache
• Aching
• Affliction
• Agony
• Cramp
• Discomfort
• Hurt
• Irritation
• Pang
• Pricking
• Shooting pain
• Smarting
• Soreness
• Spasm
• Stab
• Stiffness
• Sting
• Stinging
• Stitch
• Suffering
• Throb
• Throbbing
• Torment
• Torture
• Twinge
• Tenderness

2. sorrow

• Affliction
• Agony
• Anguish
• Bitterness
• Desolation
• Despair
• Desperation
• Distress
• Emotional suffering
• Grief
• Heartache
• Heartbreak
• Mental suffering
• Misery
• Sadness
• Sorrow
• Torment
• Trauma
• Tribulation
• Unhappiness
• Vexation
• Woe
• Wretchedness
• Torture

3. nuisance

• Bore
• Bother
• Inconvenience
• Irritant
• Nuisance
• Pain in the neck
• Pest
• Plague
• Problem
• Source of aggravation
• Source of irritation/annoyance
• The bane of one's life
• Thorn in the flesh
• Trial
• Tribulation
• Vexation
• Worry
• Drag

4. care

• Aim
• Apply oneself
• Battle
• Bend/fall/lean over backwards
• Bother
• Care
• Do all one can
• Do one's best
• Do one's utmost
• Effort
• Endeavour
• Exert oneself
• Exertion
• Give (it) one's all
• Go all out
• Labour
• Make a great effort
• Make an effort
• Make every effort
• Put oneself out
• Spare no effort
• Strain
• Strive
• Struggle
• Take (great) pains
• Take care
• Toil
• Trouble
• Try hard
• Try
• Work
• Give it one's best shot

5. physical pain

• Ache
• Afflict
• Be painful
• Be sore
• Be tender
• Bother
• Burn
• Cause anguish to
• Cause discomfort
• Cause pain
• Cut to the quick
• Distress
• Disturb
• Grieve
• Harrow
• Hurt
• Kill
• Make miserable/wretched
• Mortify
• Oppress
• Perturb
• Pinch
• Play up
• Prickle
• Sadden
• Smart
• Sting
• Throb
• Torment
• Torture
• Trouble
• Twinge
• Worry
• Wound
• Gnaw at