pain
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
How often you will meet it
Rank 804 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 22,614 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.011% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder also: hurting the patient developed severe pain and distension
- emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid also: painfulness the pain of loneliness
- a somatic sensation of acute discomfort also: pain sensation, painful sensation as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain
- a bothersome annoying person also: pain in the neck, nuisance that kid is a terrible pain
- something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness also: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washera bit of a bother
verb
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed also: trouble, ail
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable also: anguish, hurt It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school
pain in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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But the pain, whatever it was, was only momentary.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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He pleaded and writhed in bodily and mental pain.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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This idle repose had become unendurable, he felt suffocated with pain and anger.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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With a sick chaos of pain pounding at what seemed to be his lungs he met her.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1