Agony

Noun

 * 1) Violent contest or striving.
 * 2) Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
 * 3) Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
 * 4) The last struggle of life; death struggle.

Adjectives for Agony
profound; envenomed; tearless; inglorious; mute; unattended; vulgar; unconquerable; mortal; delirious; fiery; nervous; crowning; supreme; keen; blank;  dying;  childless; nameless; final; convulsive; hot; thudding; acute; multitudinous (pi); cowardly; utter; rending;  loathsome;  internal;  remittent; prolonged: heartfelt: mental: frie-htful: exquisite; stern;  superstitious;  unapeakable; piercing;  secret;  prophetic;  scathing;  ill-fated;  amorous;  helpless;  concentrated; cold; excruciating;  human;  unendurable; spiritual;  indescribable;  invisible;  throbbing; last; speechless; intensified; impotent; bitter;  blinding;  benumbing; timeless;  relentless.

Verbs for Agony
alleviate; convulsed in; distort with; efface; endure; face; impose; prolong; relish; shriek in; stir with; strive in;  struggle  in;  wrench  in; writhe in;  abates; clutches; confuses ; despairs ; distresses; shoots.

Synonyms for Agony
anguish, torment, throe, distress, pang, suffering, pain, affliction, trial, torture, misery.

Antonyms for Agony
happiness, health, peace, comfort.

Related terms

 * agon
 * agonist, antagonist, protagonist
 * agonistes

Thesaurus
aching heart; affliction; agonizingness; agony of mind; anguish; atrocious pain; bale; bitterness; bleeding heart; broken heart; care; carking care; crucifixion; crushing; death agonies; death groan; death rattle; death struggle; death throes; deathbed; deathwatch; depression; depth of misery; desolateness; desolation; despair; distress; dolor; dying breath; excruciatingness; excruciation; extremity; final extremity; grief; heartache; heartbreak; heartfelt grief; heartgrief; heartsickness; heavy heart; infelicity; lamentation; languishment; last agony; last breath; last gasp; martyrdom; martyrization; melancholia; melancholy; misery; moribundity; pain; pangs; passion; pining; prostration; rack; sadness; sorrow; sorrowing; suffering; suicidal despair; throes; throes of death; torment; tormentingness; torture; torturousness; trouble; woe; wretchedness

Etymology
From ἀγωνία:, from ἀγών:.