aches

The word “aches” has 2 syllables: ach-es

It's pronounced as /eɪks/


What is synonym and antonym for aches?

In the thesaurus, “aches” has 55 synonyms and 2 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for aches along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for aches

  • afflictions
  • afflicts
  • agonies
  • agonizes
  • anguishes
  • backaches
  • bellyaches
  • bites
  • bleeds
  • burns
  • chafes
  • charley horses
  • colics
  • complaints
  • cramps
  • damages
  • detriments
  • discomforts
  • distresses
  • earaches
  • festers
  • gripes
  • harms
  • harrows
  • headaches
  • hurts
  • inflammations
  • injuries
  • itches
  • miseries
  • nags
  • pains
  • pangs
  • pinches
  • pounds
  • pricks
  • racks
  • shoots
  • smarts
  • sores
  • stings
  • stitches
  • stomachaches
  • sufferances
  • sufferings
  • suffers
  • swellings
  • swells
  • throbs
  • throes
  • tingles
  • toothaches
  • torments
  • tortures
  • twinges

Antonyms for aches

Meanings of aches

  • noun
    1. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
  • verb
    1. To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
    2. To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
    3. Parsley.
    4. The name of the Latin-script letter H.

Example Sentences

  • She often gets aches in her back after sitting for too long.
  • The flu caused her body to experience constant aches.
  • His muscles still aches after a tough workout.
  • The cold weather made her joints aches even more.
  • He felt a few aches in his knees after the long hike.

On this page you'll find 57 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to aches, such as: afflictions, afflicts, agonies, agonizes, anguishes, backaches, bellyaches.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

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pains

  • accomplishment
  • aches
  • achievement
  • act
  • action
  • activity
  • ado
  • advertence
  • advertency
  • afflicts
  • agonizes
  • agony
  • aim
  • alertness
  • anguish
  • anguishes
  • application
  • arm
  • aspiration
  • assiduity
  • assignment
  • attempt
  • attention
  • battle
  • birth
  • birth pangs
  • bites
  • bleeds
  • bother
  • brunt
  • brush
  • burden
  • burns
  • business
  • bustle
  • calling
  • care
  • carefulness
  • caution
  • chafes
  • charge
  • childbearing
  • childbirth
  • chore
  • circumspection
  • clash
  • closeness
  • clout
  • coercion
  • combat
  • commission
  • commitment
  • committal
  • compulsion
  • concentration
  • concern
  • conflict
  • conscientiousness
  • conscription
  • consideration
  • constrait
  • contest
  • contract
  • contractions
  • crack
  • cramps
  • creation
  • daily grind
  • deed
  • delivery
  • determination
  • devoir
  • difficulty
  • diligence
  • dint
  • direction
  • discipline
  • discretion
  • discrimination
  • distress
  • draft
  • drill
  • drudge
  • drudgery
  • dues
  • duress
  • dutifulness
  • dynamism
  • effort
  • elbow grease
  • employment
  • encounter
  • endeavor
  • energy
  • enforcement
  • engagement
  • enterprise
  • enthusiasm
  • essay
  • exaction
  • exactitude
  • exactness
  • exercise
  • exertion
  • expenditure
  • extortion
  • faithfulness
  • fastidiousness
  • feat
  • festers
  • fling
  • flurry
  • focus
  • force
  • forethought
  • free-for-all
  • full head of steam
  • function
  • functioning
  • fury
  • fuss
  • gingerliness
  • giving birth
  • go
  • grind
  • grindstone
  • gruntwork
  • hard pull
  • hardship
  • harrows
  • hassle
  • heed
  • heedfulness
  • honesty
  • honor
  • hook
  • horsepower
  • hurts
  • impact
  • impetus
  • impulse
  • inconvenience
  • incorruptibility
  • industry
  • intention
  • intentness
  • interest
  • inventiveness
  • irreproachability
  • irreproachableness
  • itches
  • jam
  • job
  • judiciousness
  • jump
  • labor
  • load
  • long haul
  • long pull
  • management
  • meticulosity
  • meticulousness
  • might
  • millstone
  • mindfulness
  • minding the store
  • mission
  • moil
  • momentum
  • moonlight
  • muscle
  • must
  • nags
  • need
  • nicety
  • nine-to-five
  • obligation
  • observance
  • observation
  • occupation
  • office
  • old college try
  • onus
  • operation
  • ought
  • painstaking
  • pangs
  • part
  • particularity
  • parturition
  • pass
  • patience
  • performance
  • perseverance
  • persistence
  • pinches
  • potency
  • potential
  • pother
  • pounds
  • pow
  • power
  • precaution
  • precision
  • pressure
  • product
  • production
  • province
  • prudence
  • puissance
  • pull
  • punch
  • punctiliousness
  • purpose
  • push
  • racks
  • regard
  • resolution
  • responsibility
  • rigor
  • role
  • rough-and-tumble
  • roughhouse
  • row
  • salt mines
  • scramble
  • scrupulousness
  • service
  • servitude
  • set-to
  • shot
  • sinew
  • skirmish
  • slog
  • slogging
  • smarts
  • sock
  • solicitude
  • speed
  • spurt
  • stab
  • station
  • steadfastness
  • steam
  • stimulus
  • stings
  • stint
  • strain
  • strength
  • stress
  • stretch
  • strife
  • string
  • striving
  • strong arm
  • struggle
  • stuff
  • subjection
  • suffering
  • suffers
  • sweat
  • swells
  • taking care of business
  • task
  • tension
  • thought
  • throbs
  • throes
  • tingles
  • tirelessness
  • toil
  • torments
  • tortures
  • training
  • travail
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trouble
  • trust
  • try
  • tug
  • tussle
  • twinges
  • undertaking
  • uprightness
  • use
  • utilization
  • velocity
  • venture
  • veracity
  • vigilance
  • vigor
  • violence
  • wariness
  • watchfulness
  • weight
  • whack
  • what it takes
  • while
  • woe
  • work
  • worry
  • wrangle
  • zeal

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