Synonyms for pains
pains

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1. pains

   Industry is the quality, action, or habit of earnest, steady, and continued attention or devotion to any useful or productive work or task, manual or mental. Assiduity (Latin ad, to, and sedeo, sit), as the etymology suggests, sits down to a task until it is done. Diligence (Latin diligo, love, choose) invests more effort and exertion, with love of the work or deep interest in its accomplishment; application (Latin ad, to, and plico, fold) bends to its work and concentrates all one's powers upon it with utmost intensity; hence, application can hardly be as unremitting as assiduity. Constancy is a steady devotion of heart and principle. Patience works on in spite of annoyances; perseverance overcomes hindrances and difficulties; persistence strives relentlessly against opposition; persistence has very frequently an unfavorable meaning, implying that one persists in spite of considerations that should induce him to desist. Industry is diligence applied to some avocation, business, or profession. Labor and pains refer to the exertions of the worker and the tax upon him, while assiduity, perseverance, etc., refer to his continuance in the work.

   Synonyms:
   application, assiduity, attention, constancy, diligence, effort, exertion, industry, intentness, labor, patience, perseverance, persistence, sedulousness

   Antonyms:
   changeableness, fickleness, idleness, inattention, inconstancy, indolence, neglect, negligence, remissness, sloth

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1. striving, nisus, pains, strainnoun

   an effortful attempt to attain a goal

   Synonyms:
   tune, melody, form, breed, straining, striving, melodic line, stress, nisus, strain, tenor, var., air, variant, line, stock, nervous strain, melodic phrase, mental strain, song

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1. painsnoun

   Synonyms:
   [Used in the singular number by the best writers.] labor, care, trouble, toilsome effort

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1. List of paraphrases for "pains":

   dolores, aches, motherland

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1. George Kinoti:

   He's the first DPP I can say who is a polished field officer ... He knows the pains we undergo in the field, he's so humble ... It has won all my officers.

2. Confucius:

   We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.

3. Paul Ryan:

   I think what you're seeing is we're going through the inevitable growing pains of being an opposition party to becoming a governing party.

4. Mariana Fulger:

   There comes a time when you declare truce with pains, joys, and expectations alike – a kind of statement that I need to live like trees, like grass, like stones.

5. Walter Bagehot:

   One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.