anguished

[ ang-gwisht ]

adjective

1. feeling, showing, or accompanied by anguish.
2. resulting from or produced by anguish.

ˈanguished

/ ˈæŋɡwɪʃt /

adjective

1. feeling or expressing anguish

Other Words From

• non·anguished adjective
• un·anguished adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of anguished¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; anguish, -ed ³

Example Sentences

Seeing those anguished parents, those orphaned kids—how do you not feel like voting for Democrats anyway is like humiliatingly saying there is nothing they can do to lose our vote?

From Slate

For 40 hours, the anguished 28-year-old mother prayed for doctors to help her get home to her daughter; all the while, her uterus remained exposed to bacteria.

From Salon

They were anguished enough by the death of their child that they saw to it that he was buried beneath two stone slabs in a cave, where the depth and method of burial preserved his remains to the extent that his teeth were recovered along with enough other skeletal material to make DNA analysis possible.

From Salon

As an anguished artist and family man pushed to confront unresolved pain, the great André Holland moves through “Exhibiting Forgiveness” like someone who doesn’t just work with paint, but would just as soon submerge himself it, like an immersion chamber, if it kept his wounds from opening further.

From Los Angeles Times

In an interview with The Times of London, Strong shared that he struggled for the four seasons that HBO's "Succession" was on the air, saying that during his tenure as Kendall on the dark comedy about an American media family, he imagined terrible things happening to himself to prepare for the mentally anguished character.

From Salon

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