anguished
adjective
[ ˈaŋɡwɪʃt ]
• experiencing or expressing severe mental or physical pain or suffering.
• "he gave an anguished cry"
Similar:
agonized,
tormented,
racked with pain/suffering,
tortured,
harrowed,
miserable,
unhappy,
sad,
broken-hearted,
heartbroken,
grief-stricken,
wretched,
sorrowful,
sorrowing,
distressed,
desolate,
devastated,
despairing,
cut up,
dolorous,
Origin:
early 17th century: past participle of anguish (verb) in the rare sense ‘distress with severe mental or physical pain’, from Old French anguissier, from ecclesiastical Latin angustiare ‘to distress’, from Latin angustia .
anguish
verb
• be extremely distressed about something.
• "I spent the next two weeks anguishing about whether I'd made the right decision"
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin angustia ‘tightness’, (plural) ‘straits, distress’, from angustus ‘narrow’.
