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Antonyms for anguished
Grammar : Adj, verb |
Spell : ang-gwisht |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæŋ gwɪʃt |
- activated
- advantageous
- aid
- alleviate
- appease
- approve
- assist
- assuage
- at ease
- balanced
- be content
- be happy
- be joyful
- blessed
- bold
- brave
- calm
- calming
- certain
- cheer
- cheerful
- collected
- comfort
- comfortable
- comforted
- comforting
- composed
- confident
- content
- cool
- courageous
- cure
- definite
- delight
- delightful
- dislike
- ease
- easy
- easy-going
- elated
- encourage
- encouraging
- energized
- excellent
- firm
- fix
- fortunate
- fresh
- generous
- glad
- good
- great
- happy
- harmless
- hate
- heal
- healthful
- healthy
- help
- hopeful
- ignore
- indubious
- joyful
- joyous
- laid-back
- let go
- life-giving
- lively
- lucky
- make happy
- mend
- merry
- nice
- not worry
- pacify
- painless
- peaceful
- placate
- pleasant
- please
- pleased
- pleasing
- praise
- quiet
- refreshed
- relieve
- rich
- sane
- satisfactory
- settled
- soothe
- sound
- stable
- steady
- strong
- successful
- sure
- trivial
- unafraid
- unconcerned
- undoubted
- unfearful
- unimportant
- untroubled
- unworried
- wealthy
- wholesome
- wonderful
- worthwhile
Definition of anguished
Origin :- c.1200, "acute bodily or mental suffering," from Old French anguisse, angoisse "choking sensation, distress, anxiety, rage," from Latin angustia (plural angustiae) "tightness, straitness, narrowness;" figuratively "distress, difficulty," from ang(u)ere "to throttle, torment" (see anger (v.)).
- As in miserable : adj unhappy, depressed
- As in mournful : adj sorrowful
- As in tragic : adj catastrophic, very bad
- As in uncomfortable : adj distressed, upset
- As in uneasy : adj awkward, uncomfortable
- As in woeful : adj terrible, sad
- As in pained : adj upset
- As in troubled : adj worried
- As in grief-stricken : adj sad, sorrowful
- As in mourn : verb be sad over loss
- As in pain : verb bother, trouble
- As in excruciate : verb afflict
- As in fret : verb worry, be annoyed
- He looked kind of mottled and anguished, but I guess he'll pull around all right.
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- She lifted her anguished eyes and looked into his beautiful face.
- Extract from : « Dr. Sevier » by George W. Cable
- Often they may live peaceably, anguished with doubt, and distressed for humanity.
- Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
- In the end, shocks like these gradually roused him from his anguished abstraction.
- Extract from : « Mayflower (Flor de mayo) » by Vicente Blasco Ibez
- She crouched on her cot of spruce boughs in anguished misery.
- Extract from : « Joan of Arc of the North Woods » by Holman Day
- "But—but I have nothing fit to wear, mamma," she said, in anguished tones.
- Extract from : « Theo » by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Some guilty misgivings had been mingling with her anguished tears.
- Extract from : « Memories of Bethany » by John Ross Macduff
- Had he been the unseen witness of the tears and groans of his anguished sisters?
- Extract from : « Memories of Bethany » by John Ross Macduff
- The tenor rose to his feet with the howl of an anguished hyena.
- Extract from : « Americans All » by Various
- Impossible to describe their thoughts, or depict their looks, in that anguished hour.
- Extract from : « The Death Shot » by Mayne Reid
Synonyms for anguished
- ache
- aching
- adverse
- afflict
- afflicted
- affront
- afraid
- aggravated
- aggrieve
- agitated
- agonize
- agonized
- ail
- ailing
- alarmed
- all nerves
- angry
- anguish
- anguished
- annoy
- annoyed
- anxious
- appalling
- apprehensive
- awful
- awkward
- bad
- be brokenhearted
- be sad
- bemoan
- bereft
- beset
- bewail
- bite
- bleed
- blubber
- bother
- bothered
- brokenhearted
- brood
- calamitous
- carp
- carry a heavy load
- carry on
- cataclysmic
- catastrophic
- chafe
- chafed
- chagrin
- chagrined
- chasten
- cheerless
- comfortless
- complain
- concerned
- confused
- constrain
- constrained
- convulse
- crestfallen
- cruel
- crushing
- cry
- curse
- cut to the quick
- deadly
- deathly
- dejected
- deplorable
- deplore
- depressed
- desolate
- despairing
- despondent
- destroyed
- destructive
- devastated
- dire
- disappointing
- disastrous
- discombobulated
- discomfited
- discomfort
- discomposed
- disconcerted
- disconsolate
- discontented
- disgraceful
- dismayed
- displeased
- disquiet
- disquieted
- distraught
- distress
- distress oneself
- distressed
- distressing
- disturbed
- doleful
- dolent
- dolorous
- down
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- dreadful
- eat one's heart out
- edgy
- embarrassed
- exacerbated
- exasperate
- excruciate
- exhausted
- fatal
- fateful
- fatigued
- fearful
- feeble
- fidgety
- flustered
- forlorn
- fret
- fretful
- frightened
- full of sorrow
- fume
- fuss
- gall
- galled
- get into a dither
- gloomy
- grief-stricken
- grieve
- grieving
- grievous
- grim
- gripe
- hapless
- harass
- harassed
- harm
- harried
- harrow
- harrowed
- harrowing
- harsh
- heart-rending
- heartbreaking
- heartbroken
- heartrending
- heartsick
- heavyhearted
- hit where one lives
- hopeless
- hurt
- hurting
- ill
- ill at ease
- ill-fated
- ill-starred
- impatient
- in a tizzy
- in mourning
- in pain
- in sorrow
- in turmoil
- inadequate
- inconsolable
- inconvenienced
- inflame
- injure
- injured
- insecure
- irascible
- irk
- irked
- irritable
- irritate
- irritated
- jittery
- jumpy
- keen
- lament
- lamentable
- languish
- long for
- lose sleep over
- lousy
- mean
- melancholy
- miffed
- miserable
- miss
- mistreat
- moan
- mope
- morose
- mortified
- mournful
- nervous
- nick
- on a downer
- on edge
- on the qui vive
- overcome
- overwrought
- pained
- painful
- palpitant
- paltry
- pathetic
- peevish
- perplexed
- perturbed
- pestered
- pine
- piteous
- pitiable
- pitiful
- plague
- plagued
- plaintive
- poor
- pother
- precarious
- prick
- provoked
- punish
- put out
- puzzled
- rack
- racked
- regret
- repine
- restive
- restless
- rile
- riled
- rotten
- rue
- rueful
- ruffled
- ruinous
- ruthful
- sad
- sadden
- scared
- self-conscious
- shaken
- shaky
- shocking
- sick
- sickly
- sigh
- smart
- smarting
- smite
- sob
- sombre
- sore
- sorrow
- sorrowful
- sorry
- stew
- stiff
- sting
- strain
- strained
- stress
- suffer
- suffering
- suspicious
- sweat it out
- take it hard
- take on
- tense
- terrible
- terrified
- throb
- tingle
- tired
- torment
- tormented
- torture
- tortured
- tragic
- troubled
- uneasy
- unfortunate
- unhappy
- unquiet
- unsettled
- unstable
- upset
- upset oneself
- vex
- vexed
- wail
- wear black
- weary
- weep
- woebegone
- woeful
- worn
- worried
- worried stiff
- worry
- wound
- wounded
- wracked
- wretched
- wring hands
- wrung
- yearn
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