Usually means: Experiencing severe mental or physical pain.
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  1. anguished: Merriam-Webster
  2. anguished: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anguished: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anguished: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anguished: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anguished, anguished: Wordnik
  7. anguished: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anguished: Wiktionary
  9. anguished: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anguished: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. anguished: Dictionary.com
  12. anguished: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. anguished: Rhymezone
  14. anguished: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. anguished: FreeDictionary.org
  16. anguished: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. anguished: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. anguished: Merriam-Webster

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  1. anguished: Legal dictionary

(Note: See anguish as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Feeling anguish; experiencing extreme discomfort or discontent.

Similar:
tormented, sorrowful, tortured, agonied, enanguished, anguishful, excruciating, heartrending, agonized, heartbreaking, more...

Opposite:
content, joyful, happy, delighted, pleased

Types:
pained, agonized, distressed, distraught, grievous, agonizing, tormented, tormenting, more...

Phrases:
The Anguished Man, opposite of anguished, more...

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Similar:
tormented, sorrowful, tortured, agonied, enanguished, anguishful, excruciating, heartrending, agonized, heartbreaking, more...

Opposite:
content, joyful, happy, delighted, pleased

Types:
pained, agonized, distressed, distraught, grievous, agonizing, tormented, tormenting, more...

Phrases:
The Anguished Man, opposite of anguished, more...

Colors:
    dark gray,     charcoal,     deep purple,     midnight blue,     maroon, more...



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