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Definition: Anguished |
AnguishedAdjective1. Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "anguished" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references) |
Synonyms: AnguishedSynonyms: tormented (adj), tortured (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Anguished |
| English words defined with "anguished": tormented, tortured. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Cartoon showing anguished woman kneeling next to the body of a lynched man. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | They streamed upwards before his anguished eyes in dense and maddening fumes and passed away above him till at last the air was clear and cold again |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Anguished" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 79.87% of the time. "Anguished" is used about 154 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 79.87% | 123 | 28,925 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 9.74% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 9.09% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.3% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 154 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
anguished english | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "anguished"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مكروب (agonised, distressed, sad, stricken, suffering). (various references) | |
French | angoissai, angoissé (anguish, anxious), angoissâmes, angoissa, plein de souffrance. (various references) | |
German | von Schmerz geplagt. (various references) | |
Hungarian | meggyötört (lacerated, mortified), elkínzott (drawn, drawn out, haggard). (various references) | |
Manx | torchit (tormented, tortured), lane angaaish (agonized), angaaishit. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anguisheday.(various references) | |
Russian | мучительный (agonal, agonizing, cruel, excruciating, grievous, nerve-racking, painful, poignant, racking, torturous). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pun bola, namučen (mortified). (various references) | |
Spanish | angustiado (anxious, broken-hearted, distressed, grasping, harrowing, painful, worried, wretched). (various references) | |
Swedish | ångestfylld. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "anguished": languished. (additional references) | |
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"Anguished" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Angoisse, anguishedly, Anguisshe, anquished, vanguished. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "anguished" (pronounced a"nggwisht) |
| 7 | a" ng g w i sh t | languished. |
| 6 | -ng g w i sh t | distinguished, extinguished, undistinguished. |
| 4 | -w i sh t | relinquished, vanquished. |
| 3 | -i sh t | accomplished, admonished, astonished, banished, blemished, brandished, impoverished, demolished, diminished, embellished, established, finished, flourished, garnished, lavished, nourished, perished, polished, published, punished, reestablished, refinished, refurbished, relished, replenished, semifinished, undiminished, unfinished, unpublished, unpunished, unvarnished, vanished, varnished. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-h-i-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: deashing, headings. | |
-2 letters: anguish, audings, augends, dashing, gaudies, gnashed, guineas, heading, shading, sueding. | |
-3 letters: adieus, aguish, ashing, auding, augend, danish, deigns, design, dinges, dingus, easing, gained, gashed, geisha, genius, guides, guinea, guised, gushed, hading, haeing, hanged, hausen, hinged, hinges, indues, neighs, nighed, nudges, nudies, sained, sandhi, shined, sighed, signed, singed, sughed, sundae, unaged. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-h-i-n-s-u" | |
+1 letter: languished, subheading. | |
+2 letters: subheadings, ungarnished. | |
+3 letters: undischarged. | |
+4 letters: boardinghouse, guanethidines. | |
+5 letters: boardinghouses, countershading, superhardening. | |
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