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発音

• (Western) IPA: /ˈæɡ.ə.ni/
  • • (Upper Midwestern 米国発音, Northwestern 米国発音, Canada, æ-raising) IPA: /ˈeɪ̯ɡ.ə.ni/
• (Indic) IPA: /əˈɡoni/, /ˈaɡɵni/
• 韻: -æɡəni
• ハイフネーション: ag‧o‧ni

名詞

agony (countable and uncountable, plural agonies)

1. Extreme pain or anguish.

   When the weight fell on her foot, she cried out in agony.

2. (biblical) The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (often capitalized).
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 22:44, column 1:

     And being in an agonie, he prayed more earneſtly, […].

3. (dated) Violent contest or striving.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter X, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations.

4. (dated) Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
   • 1725, Homer, “Book X”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:

     With cries and agonies of wild delight.

5. The last struggle of life; death struggle.

同意語

• anguish, torment, throe, distress, pang, suffering
• See also Thesaurus:agony

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “extreme pain”): ecstasy

派生語

関連する語

アナグラム

• Goyan