A Pain

1. (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
2. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
3. (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
4. (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
5. Labor; effort; pains.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with "pain": mild, moderate, severe, intense, excruciating, debilitating, acute, chronic, sharp, dull, burning, steady, throbbing, stabbing, spasmodic, etc.

Synonyms

• (an annoying person or thing): pest

Antonyms

• pleasure

Hyponyms

• agony
• anguish
• pang
• neuropathic pain
• nociceptive pain
• phantom pain
• psychogenic pain