pain

Plural: pains

Noun

a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
- "the patient developed severe pain and distension"
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
- "the pain of loneliness"
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
- "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain"
a bothersome annoying person
- "that kid is a terrible pain"
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
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.
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.
The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
An annoying person or thing.
Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

Verb

Verb Forms: pained, paining, pains

To cause physical or emotional suffering and distress.
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"
To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
To feel pain; to hurt.

Examples

I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
It PAINs a Scrabble player to see a rare ’Q’ tile wasted on a low-scoring word.
It pains me to say that I must let you go.
Please help me, I am paining hard.
The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
The wound pained him.
You may not leave this room on pain of death.
Your mother is a right pain.

Origin / 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).

Synonyms

ail, anguish, annoyance, bother, botheration, hurt, hurting, infliction, nuisance, pain in the ass, pain in the neck, pain sensation, painful sensation, painfulness, trouble, ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, atray, cag, dere, difficulty, distress, effort, engrieve, excruciate, exertion, faff, grame, grief, grievance, harass, hardship, harrow, harry, hassle, inconvenience, irritate, irritation, misery, pain, pains, palaver, pang, passion, peeve, pest, pine, plague, rack, rend, smart, suffer, thole, throe, torment, torture, vex, vexation, wark, work, wring

Antonyms

pleasure, agony

Scrabble Score: 6

pain: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
pain: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pain: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

pain: valid Words With Friends Word