pained

The word “pained” has 1 syllable: pained

It's pronounced as /peɪnd/


What is synonym and antonym for pained?

In the thesaurus, “pained” has 31 synonyms and 2 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for pained

  • ached
  • afflicted
  • agonized
  • anguished
  • bit
  • bled
  • burned
  • burnt
  • chafed
  • cramped
  • distressed
  • festered
  • harrowed
  • hurt
  • injured
  • itched
  • nagged
  • pinched
  • pounded
  • racked
  • smarted
  • stung
  • suffered
  • swelled
  • throbbed
  • tingled
  • tormented
  • tortured
  • troubled
  • twinged
  • worried

Antonyms for pained

Meanings of pained

  • verb
    1. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
    2. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
    3. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
  • adjective
    1. In pain, especially in an emotional sense.

Example Sentences

  • She looked at him with a pained expression, unable to hide her sorrow.
  • His pained sigh echoed through the room as he recounted the difficult memories.
  • The doctor's pained expression indicated that the news wasn't good.
  • With each step, he winced in pained anticipation of the upcoming surgery.
  • Her pained silence spoke volumes about the depth of her disappointment.

On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to pained, such as: ached, afflicted, agonized, anguished, bit, bled, burned.

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

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lacerated

  • aching
  • aggrieved
  • agonized
  • all torn up
  • amputated
  • anatomized
  • battered
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  • distressed
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  • haggled
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  • in pain
  • incised
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  • mangled
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  • miffed
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  • umbrageous
  • unhappy
  • warped
  • wounded
  • wrenched

racked

  • afflicted
  • aggravated
  • agitated
  • agonized
  • ailing
  • anguished
  • annoyed
  • appalling
  • assailed
  • attacked
  • awful
  • bad
  • badgered
  • battered
  • bedeviled
  • beset
  • besieged
  • beyond doubt
  • bothered
  • brokenhearted
  • bruised
  • bugged
  • calamitous
  • catastrophic
  • chafed
  • cinched
  • clear-cut
  • clinched
  • confirmed
  • crestfallen
  • crippled
  • cruel
  • crushed
  • cursed
  • damaged
  • decided
  • definite
  • dejected
  • deplorable
  • depressed
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • despondent
  • destroyed
  • disappointing
  • disastrous
  • discomforted
  • discomposed
  • disconsolate
  • discontented
  • disgraceful
  • disquieted
  • distressed
  • distressing
  • disturbed
  • dogged
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • down
  • down in the mouth
  • downcast
  • dreadful
  • exasperated
  • excruciated
  • feeble
  • flustered
  • forlorn
  • frayed
  • galled
  • gloomy
  • got
  • grated
  • grieved
  • grieving
  • grievous
  • grim
  • griped
  • guaranteed
  • hagrode
  • harassed
  • harmed
  • harried
  • harrowed
  • heartbreaking
  • heartbroken
  • heartrending
  • heartsick
  • hopeless
  • hounded
  • hurt
  • hurting
  • ill
  • impaired
  • in pain
  • in the bag
  • inadequate
  • indubitable
  • injured
  • irked
  • irrefutable
  • irritated
  • lamed
  • lamentable
  • lousy
  • made certain
  • mangled
  • martyred
  • mean
  • melancholy
  • miserable
  • molested
  • mournful
  • mutilated
  • nailed down
  • nettled
  • not happy
  • on a downer
  • on ice
  • oppressed
  • overpowered
  • overwhelmed
  • pained
  • paltry
  • panged
  • pathetic
  • peeved
  • persecuted
  • perturbed
  • pestered
  • piqued
  • piteous
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • plagued
  • plaintive
  • poor
  • positive
  • pricked
  • pronounced
  • pulled
  • pursued
  • put out
  • rasped
  • rid
  • riled
  • rode
  • rotten
  • rueful
  • ruthful
  • sad
  • sealed
  • secure
  • set
  • settled
  • sewed-up
  • shocking
  • sick
  • sickly
  • smarted
  • smote
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • stabbed
  • strained
  • stressed
  • stretched
  • struck
  • stung
  • suffering
  • sure
  • surefire
  • taxed
  • tore
  • tormented
  • tortured
  • tragic
  • tried
  • troubled
  • tyrannized
  • undoubted
  • unfortunate
  • unhappy
  • unquestionable
  • upset
  • vexed
  • vext
  • victimized
  • weakened
  • woebegone
  • worried
  • wounded
  • wrenched
  • wretched
  • wrung

saddened

  • afflicted
  • aggrieved
  • agitated
  • agonized
  • ailed
  • all torn up
  • anguished
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • bad
  • basket case
  • black
  • bleak
  • blue
  • bothered
  • brokenhearted
  • bugged
  • bummed out
  • bundle of nerves
  • burdened
  • cast down
  • chapfallen
  • cheerless
  • comfortless
  • concerned
  • crestfallen
  • cut up
  • dark
  • darkening
  • dashed
  • daunted
  • dejected
  • demoralized
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • despondent
  • destroyed
  • disappointed
  • discombobulated
  • discomforted
  • discomposed
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismal
  • dismayed
  • dispirited
  • disquieted
  • distracted
  • distrait
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • down
  • down and out
  • down in the dumps
  • down in the mouth
  • downbeat
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • dragged
  • drear
  • dreary
  • droopy
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • exercised
  • fidgety
  • forlorn
  • funereal
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • got down
  • gray
  • grey
  • grieved
  • grieving
  • grim
  • hangdog
  • harassed
  • harmed
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • heavy-hearted
  • heavyhearted
  • hopeless
  • hurt
  • hurting
  • hyper
  • in a blue funk
  • in a stew
  • in a tizzy
  • in blue funk
  • in pain
  • in the dumps
  • inconsolable
  • injured
  • jittery
  • joyless
  • jumpy
  • lachrymose
  • let-down
  • long-faced
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • miffed
  • mirthless
  • miserable
  • moody
  • moony
  • morbid
  • morose
  • mournful
  • murky
  • not happy
  • oppressed
  • pained
  • peeved
  • pensive
  • persecuted
  • perturbed
  • pitiful
  • plaintive
  • regretful
  • ripped
  • rueful
  • sad
  • saddening
  • saturnine
  • shaky
  • shook
  • shook-up
  • shot down
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • spooked
  • strung-out
  • suicidal
  • sullen
  • sunk
  • tearful
  • teary
  • tormented
  • torn-up
  • tortured
  • trite
  • troubled
  • unconsolable
  • undid
  • uneasy
  • unglued
  • unhappy
  • unhinged
  • unnerved
  • unquiet
  • unsettled
  • up the wall
  • upset
  • uptight
  • wailing
  • weeping
  • weighed down
  • wet blanket
  • wired
  • wistful
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • worried
  • wrecked
  • wretched
  • wronged

galled

  • abraded
  • aching
  • affronted
  • aggravated
  • agitated
  • angered
  • angry
  • anguished
  • annoyed
  • antagonized
  • ate
  • au naturel
  • awkward
  • badgered
  • baited
  • ballyragged
  • bearish
  • bedeviled
  • bilious
  • bit
  • bitter
  • blistered
  • bothered
  • bristly
  • broke down
  • broke up
  • bruised
  • bugged
  • bullyragged
  • burned
  • burnt
  • cantankerous
  • chafed
  • cheerless
  • chewed
  • choleric
  • churlish
  • comfortless
  • confused
  • convulsed
  • corraded
  • corroded
  • crabby
  • cranky
  • cross
  • cut
  • decomposed
  • deviled
  • devilled
  • disapproving
  • discomfited
  • discomforted
  • discomposed
  • disintegrated
  • displeased
  • disquieted
  • dissolved
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dressed
  • dyspeptic
  • embarrassed
  • enflamed
  • enraged
  • erased
  • eroded
  • exasperated
  • excoriated
  • exercised
  • exhausted
  • fatigued
  • ferocious
  • fierce
  • fiery
  • filed
  • flayed
  • frayed
  • frazzled
  • fretful
  • fretted
  • frosted
  • frustrated
  • fuming
  • furious
  • fussy
  • gnawed
  • got
  • got to
  • grated
  • grazed
  • griped
  • grouchy
  • ground
  • grumpy
  • haggled
  • hagrode
  • harassed
  • harried
  • harsh
  • hassled
  • hateful
  • heated
  • heckled
  • honed
  • hot
  • huffy
  • hurt
  • ill at ease
  • ill-humored
  • ill-tempered
  • impassioned
  • in pain
  • incensed
  • inconvenienced
  • indignant
  • inflamed
  • infuriated
  • insulted
  • irascible
  • irate
  • ireful
  • irked
  • irritable
  • irritated
  • itched
  • mad
  • maddened
  • miffed
  • miserable
  • nagged
  • narked
  • nervous
  • nettled
  • nibbled
  • nude
  • offended
  • open
  • outraged
  • pained
  • pared
  • peeled
  • peeved
  • peevish
  • persecuted
  • perturbed
  • pestered
  • petulant
  • pinpricked
  • piqued
  • pissed
  • pissed off
  • plagued
  • provoked
  • put out
  • raging
  • rankled
  • rasped
  • reduced
  • resentful
  • restless
  • riled
  • roiled
  • roused
  • rubbed
  • rubbed out
  • rubbed the wrong way
  • ruffled
  • sandblasted
  • sandpapered
  • scoured
  • scraped
  • scratched
  • scuffed
  • scunnered
  • self-conscious
  • sensitive
  • sharpened
  • shaved
  • shirty
  • skinned
  • smarting
  • snappish
  • snuffy
  • sore
  • spited
  • splenetic
  • steaming
  • stiff
  • storming
  • strained
  • suffering
  • sulky
  • sullen
  • teased
  • teed off
  • tested
  • testy
  • tired
  • tormented
  • tortured
  • touchy
  • tried
  • troubled
  • undid
  • uneasy
  • unhinged
  • unsettled
  • upset
  • uptight
  • vexed
  • vext
  • weary
  • whetted
  • wore
  • wore on
  • wore out
  • worn
  • worried
  • wounded
  • wracked
  • wrathful
  • wretched

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