Synonyms for agony
Definitions
- n. 1
Extreme pain or anguish.
When the weight fell on her foot, she cried out in agony.
- n. 2
The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (often capitalized).
Related words
- Word family
- agonious agony-pipe agonal agonize agonist agonizing agonized
- Phrases
- agony aunt agony column agony uncle agony auntie agony aunty
- Is a kind of
- distress grief hurt pain suffering
Forms
- Plural
- agonies → torments, anguishes, tortures, griefs…
Choose the right word
Agony and anguish express the utmost pain or suffering of body or mind. Agony of body is that with which the system struggles; anguish that by which it is crushed.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- torture His lecture on chemistry was nothing but torture.
- misery Tom blamed all his misery on planned obsolescence.
- anguish The source of my anguish is your lack of loyalty.
- pang It gives me a pang in my heart to see him sitting alone.
- passion We defy our foes, for our passion makes us strong!
By length
- 3 letters
- woe1
- 4 letters
- pain1, rack1, ache1, pang1, wark1
- 5 letters
- grief1, throe
- 6 letters
- misery3, sorrow2
- 7 letters
- passion2, torture2, sadness2, torment2, anguish2
- 8 letters
- distress2
- 9 letters
- suffering3, heartache2
- 10 letters
- bitterness3, affliction3
- 12 letters
- wretchedness, excruciation
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (misery3 = 3 syllables).