pain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pān
ipa: /peɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: pane
Forms: form: pains
form: paine
Etymology: From Middle English peyne, payne, from Old French and Anglo-Norman peine, paine, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “bloodmoney, weregild, fine, price paid, penalty”), from Proto-Hellenic *kʷoinā́, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂ (“payment”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *cěnà (“price”)).
Doublet of peine. Compare Danish pine, Norwegian Bokmål pine, German Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn. See also pine (the verb). Partly displaced native Old English sār (whence Modern English sore).
Senses: examples: text: The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
text: I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
antonyms: word: pleasure
word: agony
glosses: 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.
examples: text: When the pains are every five minutes and quite strong or the cervix is five cm. dilated along with regular and strong pains, the mother is given a block anesthesia of 1 cc. of 1:200 nupercaine, 1 cc. of 10 per cent dextrose with .05 cc. of 1:1000 adrenalin.
ref: 1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 99:
antonyms: word: pleasure
word: agony
glosses: 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.
The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
examples: text: In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
text: The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
text: And I should tell him all my pain,
⁠And how my life had droop’d of late,
⁠And he should sorrow o’er my state
And marvel what possess’d my brain; […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 22:
synonyms: word: anguish
word: anguish
word: rend
word: difficulty
word: distress
word: grief
word: hardship
word: pain
word: smart
word: torment
word: torture
word: trouble
glosses: The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
examples: text: Your mother is a right pain.
text: Today is match day, Grimsby Town are at home, and the ground is walking distance from New Clee station. So, visiting football supporters coming by train have to change at Grimsby Town [station]. That's a real pain.
ref: 2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 58:
synonyms: word: pest
word: annoyance
word: bother
word: faff
word: grievance
word: hassle
word: inconvenience
word: irritation
word: nuisance
word: palaver
word: peeve
word: plague
word: trouble
word: vexation
glosses: An annoying person or thing.
raw_tags: from pain in the neck
examples: text: You may not leave this room on pain of death.
text: We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.
ref: 1629, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement Touching a Holy War:
text: Seb[astian]. […] [M]y duty, then, / To interpoſe; on pain of my diſpleasure, / Betwixt your Swords[.] / Dor[ax]. On pain of Infamy / He ſhould have diſobey'd.
ref: 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, Act IV, page 105:
glosses: Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
synonyms: word: effort
word: exertion
word: pains
word: wark
word: work
glosses: Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
Synonyms: word: misery
word: pain
word: wark
Hypernyms: word: sensation
Hyponyms: word: agony
word: anguish
word: pang
word: neuropathic pain
word: nociceptive pain
word: phantom pain
word: psychogenic pain
word: ache
word: torment
word: throe
word: smart
word: sting
word: back pain
word: backache
word: bellyache
word: earache
word: headache
word: lumbago
word: stomachache
word: toothache
word: hemicrania
word: migraine
word: aerodontalgia
word: arthralgia
word: causalgia
word: cephalalgia
word: chiralgia
word: costalgia
word: fibromyalgia
word: gastralgia
word: glossalgia
word: keratalgia
word: mastalgia
word: meralgia
word: metralgia
word: myalgia
word: nephralgia
word: neuralgia
word: nostalgia
word: odontalgia
word: orchidalgia
word: otalgia
word: photalgia
word: pleuralgia
word: podalgia
word: proctalgia
word: ulalgia
word: sciatica
Derived terms: afterpain
after-pain
antipain
back pain
central pain syndrome
complex regional pain syndrome
congenital insensitivity to pain
feeling no pain
feel no pain
feel someone's pain
growing pains
hunger pain
hunger-pain
in a world of pain
labour pain
labor pain
man-pain
manpain
nociplastic pain
no gain without pain
no pain, no gain
on pain of
under pain of
upon pain of
painable
painal
pain and suffering
pain compliance
pain disorder
painfilled
pain-free
painfree
pain in one's arse
pain in one's ass
pain in the arse
pain in the ass
pain in the back
pain in the backside
pain in the bum
pain in the butt
pain in the dick
pain in the keister
pain in the neck
pain in the patootie
pain in the rear
painkiller
pain killer
painkilling
painless
painlike
painmaker
pain-making
painplay
pain point
painproof
pain-racked
pain relief
pain-relieving
pain score
painsharing
painslut
painsome
painsomnia
painsong
painstaking
painstick
pain threshold
painy
patella femoral pain syndrome
patellofemoral pain syndrome
period pain
prepain
referred pain
royal pain
saddle pain
sharp short-lived head pain
weather pains
Related terms: word: pained
word: painful
word: painfully
word: painless
word: painlessly
word: painlessness
word: -algia