Antonyms for pains

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : peyn

Phonetic Transcription : peɪn

Definition of pains

Origin : late 13c., "punishment," especially for a crime; also "condition one feels when hurt, opposite of pleasure," from Old French peine "difficulty, woe, suffering, punishment, Hell's torments" (11c.), from Latin poena "punishment, penalty, retribution, indemnification" (in Late Latin also "torment, hardship, suffering"), from Greek poine "retribution, penalty, quit-money for spilled blood," from PIE *kwei- "to pay, atone, compensate" (see penal). The earliest sense in English survives in phrase on pain of death.
Phrase to give (someone) a pain "be annoying and irritating" is from 1908; localized as pain in the neck (1924) and pain in the ass (1934), though this last might have gone long unrecorded and be the original sense and the others euphemisms. Pains "great care taken (for some purpose)" is first recorded 1520s (in the singular in this sense, it is attested from c.1300). First record of pain-killer is from 1853.

noun physical suffering
noun mental suffering
noun problem
verb bother, trouble

Example sentences :

I have a French feather-bed there, which I have been at pains to keep these years back.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

He received a reproachful look from Mrs. Porter for his pains.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

The words, of her age, piqued me; and I spared no pains to make him forget them.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

The blood trickled from his forehead; he complained of pains in his side and limbs.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

What that principle is may well be worth the pains of enquiry.
Extract from : « An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding » by David Hume

It was the head and neck of his own Turkey Gobbler, and that was all he got for his pains.
Extract from : « Johnny Bear » by E. T. Seton

You can hardly think how kind she is to me, and what pains she takes with me.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

Martha had been in once, and had been scolded for her pains.
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

Then, as he complained of pains and shivering, she became anxious.
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

He spared no pains in promoting the interests which the State had confided to him.
Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin

Synonyms for pains

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