pain and suffering
Misery and distress
Pain and suffering is a legal term for the physical discomfort and emotional distress caused by an injury, as distinguished from economic damages like medical bills or lost wages.
In personal injury cases, plaintiffs seek compensation for pain and suffering alongside quantifiable losses: The jury awarded $50,000 for medical expenses and $200,000 for pain and suffering.
Outside legal contexts, the phrase sometimes appears ironically for minor inconveniences: After all that pain and suffering, the DMV was closed.
Compensation for injury
- compensationPayment for services rendered
- tortActionable civil harm
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
- liabilityLegal or financial obligation
plaintiff · lawsuit · settlement · injury · malpractice · recovery · litigation · verdict
damages
Compensation for injury
- compensationPayment for services rendered
- tortActionable civil harm
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
liability · plaintiff · lawsuit · settlement · injury · malpractice · recovery · litigation · verdict · remedy
anguish
Intense mental suffering
despair · agony · torment · misery · sorrow · distress · sadness · melancholy · desolation · hopelessness
- personal injurypersonal injury, tort, injury claim, bodily harm, harm
- sufferingagony, anguish, misery, torment, distress
- accident claimsaccident claim, car accident claim, damage claim, injury claim, liability claim
- injury claimspersonal injury, injury claim, injury settlement, insurance claim, bodily harm
- tort lawtort, tort law, negligence, duty of care, breach of duty
- damagescompensatory, punitive, punitive damages, nominal, actual
pain and sufferinghappiness
Joyful emotional state
bliss · ecstasy · euphoria · delight · contentment
pain and sufferingcomfort
Ease or soothing relief
relief · ease · painlessness · relaxation · analgesia
pain and sufferingflourishing
Prospering vigorously
well-being · peace · serenity · salvation · liberation
pain, suffer, painful, suffering, pains, painless, painfully, suffered, insufferable