agony

agony is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Violent contest or striving. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Violent contest or striving.
2. noun. Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
3. noun. Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
4. noun. The last struggle of life; death struggle.
5. noun. intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

   "an agony of doubt"

   "the torments of the damned"

   Synonyms: torment, torture

6. noun. a state of acute pain

   Synonyms: excruciation, suffering

Synonyms

torment, torture, excruciation, suffering

Common word forms

agonied, agonies

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