What is another word for smarting?
Pronunciation:
[ smˈɑːtɪŋ], [ smˈɑːtɪŋ], [ s_m_ˈɑː_t_ɪ_ŋ]
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Synonyms for Smarting:
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adj.
• painful- Besetting ,
- Cramping ,
- Gnawing ,
- Irksome ,
- Torturing. ,
- aching ,
- acute ,
- aggravating ,
- agonizing ,
- anguishing ,
- annoying ,
- arduous ,
- biting ,
- bitter ,
- bothersome ,
- burdensome ,
- chafing ,
- cruel ,
- crushing ,
- cutting ,
- disagreeable ,
- distressful ,
- excruciating ,
- extremely bad ,
- grievous ,
- grueling ,
- harrowing ,
- horrendous ,
- hurtful ,
- inflaming ,
- insufferable ,
- irritating ,
- miserable ,
- odious ,
- offensive ,
- oppressive ,
- piercing ,
- severe ,
- stabbing ,
- stinging ,
- throbbing ,
- tormenting ,
- torturing ,
- troublesome ,
- trying ,
- unbearable ,
- unpleasant ,
- withering ,
- woeful ,
- wrenching ,
- awful ,
- caustic ,
- difficult ,
- dire ,
- distasteful ,
- distressing ,
- dreadful ,
- extreme ,
- hard ,
- hurting ,
- laborious ,
- saddening ,
- tedious ,
- terrible ,
- vexatious .
- more prickling ,
- more reeking ,
- more tingling ,
- most prickling ,
- most reeking ,
- most tingling ,
- re eking ,
- re-eking .
- more abscessed ,
- more bruised ,
- more chafed ,
- more grieved ,
- more grieving ,
- more irked ,
- more reddened ,
- more stung ,
- more ulcerated ,
- more vexed ,
- most abscessed ,
- most bruised ,
- most chafed ,
- most grieved ,
- most grieving ,
- most irked ,
- most reddened ,
- most stung ,
- most ulcerated ,
- most vexed ,
- pained ,
- up-set .
- hyper sensitive ,
- hyper-sensitive ,
- more hypersensitive ,
- more oversensitive ,
- most hypersensitive ,
- most oversensitive ,
- over sensitive ,
- over-sensitive ,
- oversensitive ,
- thin skinned ,
- thinskinned .
- dis composed ,
- dis quieted ,
- dis-composed ,
- dis-quieted ,
- ill ease ,
- more anguished ,
- more discomfited ,
- more discomposed ,
- more disquieted ,
- more galled ,
- more suffering ,
- more wracked ,
- most anguished ,
- most discomfited ,
- most discomposed ,
- most disquieted ,
- most galled ,
- most suffering ,
- most wracked ,
- self conscious ,
- selfconscious ,
- un comfortable ,
- un easier ,
- un easiest ,
- un easy ,
- un-comfortable ,
- un-easier ,
- un-easiest .
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n.
• ache • bite • pain- Back Ache ,
- Migraine ,
- affliction ,
- agony ,
- anguish ,
- bruise ,
- burn ,
- cramp ,
- crick ,
- discomfort ,
- distress ,
- earache ,
- grief ,
- gripe ,
- headache ,
- hurt ,
- inflammation ,
- infliction ,
- injury ,
- irritation ,
- malaise ,
- misery ,
- painfulness ,
- pang ,
- rack ,
- spasm ,
- stab ,
- sting ,
- stitch ,
- suffering ,
- throb ,
- throe ,
- torment ,
- torture ,
- wound ,
- wrench .
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v.
• paining Other synonyms:
- achy ,
- afflictive ,
- nagging .
Other relevant words:
- Bittering ,
- Crisping ,
- Fining ,
- Flipping ,
- Gallanting ,
- Hungering ,
- Injuring ,
- Languishing ,
- Newing ,
- Sharping ,
- Slicking ,
- Sprucing ,
- Tidying ,
- Twinging ,
- ability ,
- alerting ,
- angry ,
- be on fire ,
- bolding ,
- brisking ,
- briskness ,
- bruising ,
- burn down ,
- burn in ,
- burn off ,
- burn out ,
- burning ,
- calcine ,
- chafed ,
- chichi ,
- chicness ,
- cleaning ,
- clemency ,
- cleverness ,
- fasting ,
- festering ,
- fiery ,
- fire ,
- fondness ,
- forwarding ,
- galled ,
- gooding ,
- grieving ,
- harding ,
- harm ,
- hunger ,
- incinerate ,
- inflamed ,
- irritated ,
- itching ,
- keen ,
- keening ,
- kindness ,
- longing ,
- love ,
- mildness ,
- modishness ,
- nociceptive ,
- nuisance ,
- offending ,
- pick ,
- pinch ,
- pining ,
- pounding ,
- pricking ,
- prickling ,
- priming ,
- prompting ,
- quick ,
- raw ,
- readying ,
- red ,
- sear ,
- sensitive ,
- sharp ,
- shrewd ,
- shrivel ,
- slying ,
- smart ,
- smartness ,
- soreness ,
- stiff ,
- stylishness ,
- swank ,
- swift ,
- swishing ,
- tender ,
- tenderness ,
- tingle ,
- tingling ,
- torturous ,
- trimming ,
- trouble ,
- twinge ,
- twitch ,
- use up ,
- warming ,
- wising ,
- yearning .
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How to use "Smarting" in context?
and "smarting off"
I know it's tough when you get bit by the smarting bug. You feel like you need to go off on someone, preferably in a playful and constructive way, to make the hurt go away. Unfortunately, sometimes this approach backfires and instead of making things better, you end up making them worse. Here are four ways to avoid "smarting off" and adroitly manage your smarts instead.
1. Recognize that the smarting feeling is temporary and the hurt might not even be real.
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