anguish

Other forms of anguish

plural

anguishes·

past tense

anguished·

present participle

anguishing·

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 anguish

What does anguish mean?

anguish means "extreme mental distress". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anguish?

anguish has 2 syllables: an-guish. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈæŋɡwɪʃ/.

What is another word for anguish?

Close synonyms include torment, torture, pain, hurt. 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 anguish a common word?

anguish is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.