achy

The word “achy” has 2 syllables: ach-y

It's pronounced as /ˈeɪki/


What is synonym and antonym for achy?

In the thesaurus, “achy” has 39 synonyms and 6 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for achy

  • aching
  • afflictive
  • agonizing
  • bleeding
  • burning
  • chafing
  • cramping
  • damaging
  • deleterious
  • detrimental
  • enflamed
  • excruciating
  • festering
  • grievous
  • harmful
  • hurtful
  • hurting
  • inflamed
  • injurious
  • itching
  • nagging
  • nasty
  • noxious
  • painful
  • pernicious
  • pinching
  • pricking
  • prickling
  • raw
  • severe
  • smarting
  • sore
  • stinging
  • swollen
  • tender
  • threatening
  • throbbing
  • torturous
  • wounding

Antonyms for achy

  • curative
  • healing
  • helping
  • indolent
  • painless
  • remedial

Meanings of achy

  • adjective
    1. Suffering from aches, sore.

Example Sentences

  • After the workout, his muscles felt achy and sore.
  • She had an achy feeling in her back after sitting for too long.
  • The flu left him feeling tired and achy all over.
  • His head felt achy, and he decided to take a break.
  • The cold weather made her joints feel achy and stiff.

On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to achy, such as: aching, afflictive, agonizing, bleeding, burning, chafing, cramping.

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

Related Words

nagging

  • aching
  • achy
  • afflictive
  • agonizing
  • alarming
  • annoying
  • arduous
  • awful
  • badgering
  • baiting
  • beefing
  • begging
  • bellyaching
  • bemoaning
  • bewailing
  • bitching
  • biting
  • blandishing
  • bleating
  • blubbering
  • bothering
  • bugging
  • burning
  • cajoling
  • carping
  • caterwauling
  • caustic
  • caviling
  • cavilling
  • chilling
  • chivvying
  • chivying
  • coaxing
  • complaining
  • crabbing
  • croaking
  • crying
  • daunting
  • demoralizing
  • deploring
  • difficult
  • dire
  • direful
  • disagreeable
  • discomfiting
  • discomforting
  • discomposing
  • disconcerting
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dismaying
  • dispiriting
  • disquieting
  • distasteful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • dogging
  • dread
  • dreadful
  • egging
  • excruciating
  • exhorting
  • extreme
  • extremely bad
  • fearful
  • fearsome
  • forbidding
  • formidable
  • fretting
  • frightening
  • frightful
  • fussing
  • ghastly
  • goading
  • grievous
  • griping
  • grizzling
  • grouching
  • grousing
  • growling
  • grumbling
  • grumping
  • hair-raising
  • harassing
  • hard
  • harrowing
  • harrying
  • hassling
  • henpecking
  • hollering
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • horrifying
  • hounding
  • hurtful
  • hurting
  • importuning
  • inciting
  • inflamed
  • insisting
  • intimidating
  • inveighing
  • irking
  • irritated
  • keening
  • kicking
  • kicking up a fuss
  • kicking up a stink
  • kvetching
  • laborious
  • lamenting
  • maundering
  • moaning
  • murmuring
  • muttering
  • nasty
  • needling
  • nitpicking
  • persecutive
  • persecutory
  • perturbing
  • pestering
  • picking at
  • piercing
  • plaguing
  • pleading
  • pressing
  • pressuring
  • prodding
  • prompting
  • protesting
  • pushing
  • quibbling
  • raw
  • repining
  • riding
  • saddening
  • scary
  • screaming
  • sensitive
  • severe
  • sharp
  • shocking
  • smarting
  • sobbing
  • sore
  • spurring
  • squawking
  • squealing
  • stewing
  • stinging
  • tedious
  • tender
  • terrible
  • terrifying
  • throbbing
  • tormenting
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • troublous
  • trying
  • uncomfortable
  • unpleasant
  • unsettling
  • upsetting
  • urging
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • wailing
  • wheedling
  • whimpering
  • whingeing
  • whinging
  • whining
  • worrisome
  • worrying
  • yammering
  • yauping
  • yawping
  • yowling

saddening

  • acheronian
  • acherontic
  • aching
  • achy
  • affecting
  • afflicting
  • afflictive
  • agitating
  • agonizing
  • ailing
  • arduous
  • awful
  • bad
  • beefing
  • bellyaching
  • biting
  • black
  • bleak
  • blue
  • bothering
  • burdening
  • burning
  • calamitous
  • cantankerous
  • caustic
  • cheerless
  • cold
  • comfortless
  • concerning
  • crabby
  • cranky
  • crushing
  • dark
  • dashing
  • daunting
  • dejected
  • dejecting
  • demoralizing
  • deplorable
  • depressant
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desolate
  • despondent
  • destroyed
  • difficult
  • dire
  • disagreeable
  • disastrous
  • discomforting
  • discomposing
  • disconsolate
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • dismaying
  • dispirited
  • dispiriting
  • disquieting
  • distasteful
  • distressful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • down
  • down and out
  • down in the dumps
  • down in the mouth
  • downbeat
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • drab
  • dragged
  • dreadful
  • drear
  • dreary
  • droopy
  • dull
  • dusky
  • excruciating
  • exercising
  • extreme
  • extremely bad
  • funereal
  • getting down
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • grave
  • grief-stricken
  • grievous
  • grim
  • grousing
  • grumpy
  • hapless
  • hard
  • harrowing
  • have the blahs
  • heart-rending
  • heart-wrenching
  • heartbreaking
  • heartrending
  • heavy
  • heavy-hearted
  • hopeless
  • hurtful
  • hurting
  • in blue funk
  • inflamed
  • irritated
  • joyless
  • laborious
  • lachrymose
  • lamentable
  • lamenting
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • mirthless
  • miserable
  • moody
  • moony
  • mopey
  • morose
  • mournful
  • moving
  • nagging
  • oppressing
  • oppressive
  • out of sorts
  • pathetic
  • pensive
  • perturbing
  • piercing
  • piteous
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • poignant
  • raw
  • regrettable
  • rueful
  • sad
  • saddened
  • sensitive
  • serious
  • severe
  • shabby
  • sharp
  • smarting
  • somber
  • sore
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • stinging
  • tear-jerking
  • tearful
  • teary
  • tedious
  • tender
  • tenebrific
  • terrible
  • throbbing
  • tormenting
  • torn-up
  • torturing
  • touching
  • tragic
  • trite
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • trying
  • uncomfortable
  • undoing
  • unfortunate
  • unhappy
  • unhinging
  • unnerving
  • unpleasant
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsettling
  • upsetting
  • vexatious
  • wailing
  • weighing down
  • wet blanket
  • wistful
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • worrying
  • wretched

bad

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