Pain Definition
pain
See also Pain, and päin
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From Old French and Anglo-Norman peine, paine, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinê, “bloodmoney, were-gild, fine, price paid, penalty”). Compare; German Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn.
Pronunciation
Noun
pain (countable and uncountable; plural pains)
- (countable and uncountable) 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 greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
- I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
- (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.
- In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
- The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
- (countable) An annoying person or thing.
- Your mother is a right pain.
- (uncountable) (obsolete) Suffering seen as a punishment or penalty.
- You may not leave this room on pain of death.
- Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. — Dryden
- We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. — Bacon
Usage notes
- Adjectives often used with "pain": mild, moderate, severe, intense, excruciating, debilitating, acute, chronic, sharp, dull, burning, steady, throbbing, stabbing, spasmodic, etc.
Synonyms
- (an annoying person or thing): pest
- See also Wikisaurus:pain
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- agony
- anguish
- pang
- neuropathic pain
- nociceptive pain
- phantom pain
- psychogenic pain
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Related termsVerb
pain (third-person singular simple present pains, present participle paining, simple past and past participle pained)
- (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
- The wound pained him.
- (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
- It pains me to say that I must let you go.
- (transitive) (obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Translations
to hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish
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References
- pain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- pain in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- pain at OneLook Dictionary Search
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Anglo-Norman
Etymology
Latin panis
Noun
pain m. (oblique plural pains, nominative singular pains, nominative plural pain)
Finnish
Noun
pain
- Genitive singular form of pai.
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pain m. (plural pains)
- bread
- piece of bread
- Same kind of bread as a baguette, but bigger in size.
- (informal) punch (a hit with the fist)
- a block (of ice)
Derived terms
Terms derived from "pain"
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Old French
Etymology
Latin panis
Noun
pain m. (oblique plural pains, nominative singular pains, nominative plural pain)
Descendants
- French: pain
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