| Main Entry: | ache |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sore feeling; dull pain |
Synonyms: |
anguish, hurt, misery, pang, pounding, smarting, soreness, spasm, suffering, throb, throbbing, throe, twinge |
| Notes: | a pain is something that hurts; an ache is a prolonged dull pain |
Antonyms: |
comfort, ease, health, relief |
| Main Entry: | ache |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feeling soreness or dull pain, often physical |
Synonyms: |
be sore, hurt, pain, pound, smart, suffer, throb, twinge |
| Main Entry: | ailment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mild sickness |
Synonyms: |
ache, bug, complaint, condition, disease, disorder, dose, flu, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, syndrome |
Antonyms: |
health |
| Main Entry: | bleed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grieve |
Synonyms: |
ache, agonize, be in pain, feel for, pity, suffer, sympathize |
| Main Entry: | commiserate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | listen to woes of another |
Synonyms: |
ache, compassionate, condole, console, feel, feel for, have mercy, pity, share sorrow, sympathize |
Antonyms: |
be indifferent, turn away |
| Main Entry: | cramp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muscle spasm |
Synonyms: |
ache, charley horse, circumscription, confinement, constipation, contraction, convulsion, crick, hindrance, impediment, kink, obstruction, pain, pang, restriction, shooting pain, stiffness, stitch, stricture, twinge |
| Main Entry: | crick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muscle spasm |
Synonyms: |
ache, charley horse, convulsion, cramp, jarring, kink, pain, stitch, twinge, wrench |
| Main Entry: | discomfort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irritation, pain |
Synonyms: |
ache, annoyance, discomfiture, discomposure, displeasure, disquiet, distress, embarrassment, hardship, hurt, inquietude, malaise, nuisance, soreness, trouble, uneasiness, unpleasantness, upset, vexation |
Antonyms: |
comfort, ease, easiness, pleasure, relief |
| Main Entry: | disease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ailment, affliction |
Synonyms: |
ache, affection, attack, blight, breakdown, bug*, cancer, canker, collapse, complaint, condition, contagion, contamination, convulsions, debility, decrepitude, defect, disorder, distemper, endemic, epidemic, feebleness, fever, fit, flu, hemorrhage, ill health, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, inflammation, malady, misery, pathosis, plague, seizure, sickliness, sickness, spell, stroke, syndrome, temperature, unhealthiness, unsoundness, upset, virus, visitation |
| Notes: | decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning illness means sickness or poor health, while a disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
Antonyms: |
health |
| Main Entry: | distress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pain, agony |
Synonyms: |
ache, affliction, anguish, anxiety, bad news, blues, care, concern, cross, dejection, desolation, disappointment, discomfort, disquietude, dolor, embarrassment, grief, headache, heartache, heartbreak, irritation, malaise, misery, mortification, ordeal, pang, perplexity, sadness, shame, sorrow, stew, suffering, throe, torment, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, twinge, unconsolability, unhappiness, vexation, visitation, woe, worriment, worry, wretchedness |
Antonyms: |
comfort, happiness, health, pleasure |