pain
Noun:
- Physical suffering or discomfort: An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.
- Mental or emotional suffering: A state of emotional distress or unhappiness.
- A source of annoyance or trouble: A person or thing that is very annoying or causes difficulty.
Verb:
- To cause physical pain: To inflict bodily suffering or discomfort.
- To cause emotional distress: To make someone feel sad, upset, or hurt.
Noun (Physical):
- She felt a sharp pain in her knee.
- The medicine helps to relieve the pain.
Noun (Emotional):
- He spoke about the pain of losing his father.
- Her harsh words caused him great pain.
Noun (Annoyance):
- That constant noise is a real pain.
- He can be such a pain when he's in a bad mood.
Verb:
- It pains me to admit that I was wrong.
- My back is paining me again today.
"To be a pain in the neck": To be very annoying or troublesome.
- That repetitive task is a real pain in the neck.
"To take pains": To make a special effort or take great care to do something.
- She took great pains to ensure the report was accurate.
"On/under pain of": With the threat of a specified punishment if one disobeys.
- They were forbidden to speak, on pain of death.
Painful (adj): Causing physical or emotional pain.
- It was a painful memory.
Painless (adj): Not causing or involving pain.
- The procedure was quick and painless.
Painstaking (adj): Done with great care and thoroughness.
- He did a painstaking analysis of the data.
- Noun (Suffering): Ache, agony, discomfort, distress, hurt, soreness, torment.
- Noun (Annoyance): Bother, nuisance, irritation, hassle.
- Verb: Ache, hurt, distress, torment, trouble.
(The word 'pain' is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. Its meanings are typically expressed directly.)
"No pain, no gain": You have to work hard or endure difficulty to achieve something.
- The training is tough, but remember: no pain, no gain.
"A pain in the ass/butt/backside" (informal, vulgar): Similar to "a pain in the neck," meaning a source of extreme annoyance.
- Filling out all these forms is a pain in the ass.
- something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
- washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer
- a bit of a bother
- he's not a friend, he's an infliction
- a bothersome annoying person
- that kid is a terrible pain
- a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
- as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain
- emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
- the pain of loneliness
- a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
- the patient developed severe pain and distension
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed