Serious suffering
The crossword clue "Serious suffering" is answered by AGONY, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
AGONY
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AGONY answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for AGONY
Every other clue in this collection answered by AGONY, most used first.
- Torment - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Extreme pain - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Ecstasy's opposite - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Anguish - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Great pain - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Opposite of ecstasy - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Deep distress - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Intense pain - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Intense suffering - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Suffering - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- "The __ and the Ecstasy" - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Great distress - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Extreme suffering - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- ". . . the ___ of defeat" - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Excruciating pain - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Ecstasy's antithesis - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Ecstasy's counterpart - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Major pain - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Terrible pain - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Intense distress - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Pain - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Torture - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Serious play - DRAMA, used 50 times
- Serious - SOBER, used 37 times
- Serious - GRAVE, used 34 times
- Serious criminal - FELON, used 26 times
- Isn't serious - JESTS, used 20 times
- Serious - STAID, used 20 times
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