different between grieving vs agony
grieving
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???i?v??/
- Rhymes: -i?v??
Verb
grieving
- present participle of grieve
Noun
grieving (plural grievings)
- An act or instance of feeling or expressing grief.
Related terms
- grief
- grievance
- grieve
Anagrams
- regiving
grieving From the web:
- what grieving mean
- what grieving feels like
- what grieving looks like
- what grieving does to your body
agony
English
Etymology
14th century, via Old French [Term?] and Latin [Term?]; from Ancient Greek ?????? (ag?nía, “emulation, competition, struggle”), from ???? (ag?n, “contest”). Specifically of the struggle that precedes death (mortal agony) from the 1540s.
The sense of "extreme pain" from c. 1600.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?æ.??.ni?/
Noun
agony (countable and uncountable, plural agonies)
- Extreme pain.
- (biblical) The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
- Violent contest or striving.
- 1849, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, Chapter 10
- The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations.
- 1849, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, Chapter 10
- Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
- The last struggle of life; death struggle.
Synonyms
- anguish, torment, throe, distress, pang, suffering
- See also Thesaurus:agony
Antonyms
- (extreme pain): ecstasy
Related terms
- agon
- agonal
- agonist, antagonist, protagonist
- agonistes
- agonize, agonise
Translations
Anagrams
- Goyan
agony From the web:
- what agony mean
- what's agony aunt
- what agony in spanish
- what agony means in arabic
- what's agony in french
- what's agony column
- what agony column meaning
- what's agony in english
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- grieving vs agony
- forcible vs effectual
- concession vs avowal
- obstruction vs cavil
- rugged vs strapping
- sunless vs sad
- portion vs column
- out vs detect
- scurrilous vs disgraceful
- publish vs circulate
- include vs grasp
- scope vs tendency
- sweltering vs spicy
- denote vs intend
- earnest vs gleeful
- prognosticate vs bode
- obligatory vs astringent
- dye vs discolor
- jog vs skedaddle
- unpropitious vs antagonistic