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dysmenorrhea

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /dɪs.mɛ.nəˈɹi.ə/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

Painful menstruation (menstrual pain), viewed as a symptom in any of various disorders.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Painful menstruation (menstrual pain), viewed as a disorder in its own right (and thus a diagnosis).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

painful menstruation

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pain, hurting

Narrower terms: primary dysmenorrhea, secondary dysmenorrhea

History

Etymology

From dys- + meno- + -rrhea = dys- + menorrhœa.

Across languages

Translations

29 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: dismenorrea — painful menstruation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 經痛 /经痛 (jīngtòng) — painful menstruation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 痛經 /痛经 (tòngjīng) — painful menstruation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 月經絞痛 /月经绞痛 (yuèjīng jiǎotòng) — painful menstruation
  • Dutch: dysmenorroe — painful menstruation
  • Estonian: düsmenorröa — painful menstruation
  • Finnish: dysmenorrea — painful menstruation
  • Finnish: kuukautiskipu — painful menstruation
  • French: dysménorrhée — painful menstruation
  • German: Menstruationsbeschwerden — painful menstruation
  • German: Regelschmerzen — painful menstruation
  • German: Dysmenorrhoe — painful menstruation
  • Greek: δυσμηνόρροια (dysminórroia) — painful menstruation
  • Indonesian: dismenorea — painful menstruation
  • Indonesian: nyeri haid — painful menstruation
  • Indonesian: senggugut — painful menstruation
  • Indonesian: sumilangeun (Sunda) — painful menstruation
  • Italian: dismenorrea — painful menstruation
  • Kazakh: дисменорея (dismenoreä) — painful menstruation
  • Korean: 생리통 (saengnitong) — painful menstruation
  • Polish: bóle menstruacyjne — painful menstruation
  • Portuguese: dismenorreia — painful menstruation
  • Russian: дисменоре́я (dismenoréja) — painful menstruation
  • Spanish: dismenorrea — painful menstruation
  • Sundanese: sumilangeun — painful menstruation
  • Tagalog: masakit na dating — painful menstruation
  • Ukrainian: дисменоре́я (dysmenoréja) — painful menstruation
  • Vietnamese: đau bụng kinh — painful menstruation
  • Yiddish: ווסתּ־שמערצן (vest-shmertsn) — painful menstruation