Synonyms for growing pains
grow·ing pains

Princeton's WordNet

1. growing painsnoun

   pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth

2. growing painsnoun

   emotional distress arising during adolescence

3. growing painsnoun

   problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages)

Matched Categories

1. • Pain
   • Trouble

Suggested Resources

1. growing pains

   Read the full text of the Growing Pains poem by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Kirstie Wilson:

   I was bleeding in between periods and I was in agony but doctors diagnosed me with thrush and growing pains, it took me four months of going back and forth to my GP (general practitioner) before I was given a [Pap] smear test.

2. Joseph Spak:

   We believe that Tesla is essentially learning how to become a manufacturing company on the fly, while we don't have meaningful reason to doubt that Tesla can eventually achieve its targets, doing so in a timely manner without some growing pains could prove challenging.

3. David Yepsen:

   His campaign has got all kinds of growing pains and it doesn’t make sense that he would spend any kind of time going out of the country.

4. Howard Tai:

   To me, this is all part of the growing pains of China trying to liberalize its financial markets to become an important player on the world stage, and from a technicality standpoint, they are learning to deal with the various issues that come with that.

5. Mike Golub:

   The MLS, its well documented, had its share of growing pains when it was still a toddler and a youth, if you will. So. I dont think any of us involved in the NWSL thought this was going to be an easy journey in establishing a viable womens league.