agony

1. 1.

   intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

   “an agony of doubt”

   “the torments of the damned”

   Synonymstormenttorture

   Broadersuffering
2. 2.

   a state of acute pain

   Synonymssufferingexcruciation

   Broaderpain

   NarrowerthroePassion

Other forms of agony

plural

agonies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about agony

What does agony mean?

agony means "intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in agony?

agony has 3 syllables: ag-o-ny. The stress falls on "ag". In IPA it is /ˈæɡəni/.

What is another word for agony?

Close synonyms include torment, torture, suffering, excruciation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is agony a common word?

agony is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.