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say it: payn
pain is a noun and verb meaning "a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder". It is pronounced /ˈpeɪn/ — payn. It carries 7 recorded senses.
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
“the pain of loneliness”
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
“as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain”
a bothersome annoying person
“that kid is a terrible pain”
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
“washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer”
“a bit of a bother”
“he's not a friend, he's an infliction”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pain come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.