Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb anguish

2 senses of anguish

Sense 1
anguish -- (suffer great pains or distress)
       => suffer -- (experience (emotional) pain; "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers")

Sense 2
pain, anguish, hurt -- (cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school")
       => upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit -- (cause to lose one's composure)

Antonyms of adj anguished

1 sense of anguished

Sense 1
anguished, tormented, tortured -- (experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation")

INDIRECT (VIA sorrowful) -> joyful -- (full of or producing joy; "make a joyful noise"; "a joyful occasion")

Similarity of adj anguished

1 sense of anguished

Sense 1
anguished, tormented, tortured -- (experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation")
       => sorrowful (vs. joyful) -- (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13)