pain

pain is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
2. noun. Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
3. noun. Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
4. noun. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
5. noun. See Pains, labor, effort.
6. noun. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
7. noun. To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.
8. noun. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
9. noun. a somatic sensation of acute discomfort

   "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain"

10. noun. something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness

    "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"

    "a bit of a bother"

    Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction

11. noun. emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid

    "the pain of loneliness"

    Synonyms: painfulness

12. noun. a bothersome annoying person

    "that kid is a terrible pain"

    Synonyms: nuisance

13. noun. a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder

    "the patient developed severe pain and distension"

    Synonyms: hurting

14. verb. cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed

    Synonyms: ail, trouble

15. verb. cause emotional anguish or make miserable

    "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"

    Synonyms: anguish, hurt

Synonyms

annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, painfulness, nuisance, hurting, ail, trouble, anguish, hurt

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pain:

nipa, pani, pian, pina

Common word forms

pains, pained, painful, paining, painless

Words from these letters

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