- anguished, tormented, tortured - experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"
Antonym: joyful (indirect, via sorrowful)
- anguish - suffer great pains or distress
--1 is one way to suffer
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun anguish1
Sam and Sue anguish over the results of the experiment
- pain, anguish, hurt - cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school"
--2 is one way to upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun anguish2, noun anguish1
The bad news will anguish him