Synonyms for smarting
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : smahrt |
| Phonetic Transcription : smɑrt |
Top 10 synonyms for smarting Other synonyms for the word smarting
- achy
- afflictive
- arduous
- awful
- difficult
- dire
- disagreeable
- distasteful
- dreadful
- extremely bad
- grievous
- hard
- hurtful
- inflamed
- irritated
- laborious
- nagging
- piercing
- raw
- saddening
- sensitive
- severe
- sharp
- sore
- stinging
- tedious
- tender
- terrible
- throbbing
- tormenting
- troublesome
- trying
- uncomfortable
- unpleasant
- vexatious
Définition of smarting
Origin :- Old English smeortan "be painful," from Proto-Germanic *smarta- (cf. Middle Dutch smerten, Dutch smarten, Old High German smerzan, German schmerzen "to pain," originally "to bite"), from PIE *smerd- "pain," an extension of the root *mer- (2) "to rub; to harm" (cf. Greek smerdnos "terrible, dreadful," Sanskrit mardayati "grinds, rubs, crushes," Latin mordere "to bite"). Related: Smarted; smarting.
- adj painful
- His hand was smarting as though struck with the lash of a whip.
- Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
- For a quarter of an hour he thus kept her smarting and trembling.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- For Audrey, smarting from Wyndham's insult, it was the flick of the lash in her face.
- Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
- They cannot move their dead cats while smarting 'neath the cruel English yoke.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- "No, Sir," said Grenfell, smarting under the sting of what he felt to be an insult.
- Extract from : « Luttrell Of Arran » by Charles James Lever
- Will she be able to conceal the smarting pain she felt at that moment?
- Extract from : « A Hungarian Nabob » by Maurus Jkai
- I know that Pomeroff has been smarting under the insult ever since.
- Extract from : « Rabbi and Priest » by Milton Goldsmith
- Her cheeks were red and smarting from the blows she had received.
- Extract from : « Sara Crewe » by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- But in these cases the pain should be more of the smarting, than of the dull kind.
- Extract from : « Zoonomia, Vol. II » by Erasmus Darwin
- At length I ceased, half-shamed but still angry and smarting sorely.
- Extract from : « Cleopatra » by H. Rider Haggard
Antonyms for smarting
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