achy

Thân thiện

My grandmother rubs her achy knees after gardening.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Experiencing a continuous, dull pain: Describes a state of having a persistent, often not sharp, discomfort or soreness in a part of the body.

Usage

• The adjective "achy" is used to describe a physical sensation of pain. It is informal and often implies a widespread or general soreness, commonly associated with illness, fatigue, or overexertion. It typically modifies nouns referring to body parts or the person/animal as a whole.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • I feel achy all over after that long hike.
  • She stayed home from work with an achy back and a fever.
  • The flu left him tired and achy for days.

Advanced Usage

• "achy-breaky": An informal, playful, or colloquial extension, popularized by a song title, emphasizing a state of being emotionally or physically hurt.
  • After the breakup, she was feeling achy-breaky.

Variants and Related Words

• Ache (noun/verb): A continuous, dull pain / to suffer such a pain.

  • I have an ache in my shoulder.
  • My muscles ache from the exercise.

• Aching (adjective/present participle): Causing or experiencing a continuous pain.

  • He felt an aching loneliness.

Synonyms

• Sore: Painful and tender, often from a specific injury or inflammation.
• Painful: Causing or suffering pain (more general).
• Throbbing: Beating with a strong, regular rhythm of pain.

Antonyms

• Pain-free: Without any pain.
• Comfortable: In a state of physical ease.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. causing a dull and steady pain
   • my aching head
   • her old achy joints

Từ đồng nghĩa

• aching