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#828. Pain. -- N. mental suffering

• pain

• dolor

• suffering

• sufferance

• ache

• smart

• passion

• displeasure

• dissatisfaction

• discomfort

• discomposure

• disquiet;

• malaise

• inquietude

• uneasiness

• vexation of spirit

• taking

• discontent

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• dejection

• weariness

• annoyance

• irritation

• worry

• infliction

• visitation

• plague

• bore;

• bother

• botheration

• stew

• vexation

• mortification

• chagrin

• care

• anxiety

• solicitude

• trouble

• trial

• ordeal

• fiery ordeal

• shock

• blow

• dole

• fret

• burden

• load

• concern

• grief

• sorrow

• distress

• affliction

• woe

• bitterness

• heartache

• carking cares

• heavy heart

• aching heart

• bleeding heart

• broken

• heart

• heavy affliction

• gnawing grief

• unhappiness

• infelicity

• misery

• tribulation

• wretchedness

• desolation

• despair

• extremity

• prostration

• depth of misery

• nightmare

• incubus

• pang

• anguish

• agony

• torture

• torment

• purgatory

• hell upon earth

• iron age

• reign of terror

• slough of despond

• (adversity) 7

• peck of troubles

• "ills that flesh is heir to"

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• miseries of human life

• "unkindest cut of all" [Julius

• Caesar]

• sufferer

• victim

• prey

• martyr

• object of compassion

• wretch

• shorn

• lamb

• V. feel pain

• suffer pain

• experience pain

• undergo pain

• bear pain

• endure pain

• smart

• ache

• suffer

• bleed

• ail

• be the victim of

• labor under afflictions

• bear the cross

• quaff the bitter cup

• have a

• bad time of it

• fall on evil days

• go hard with

• come

• to grief

• fall a sacrifice to

• drain the cup of misery to the dregs

• "sup

• full of horrors" [Macbeth]

• sit on thorns

• be on pins and needles

• wince

• fret

• chafe

• worry

• oneself

• be in a taking

• fret and fume

• take on

• take to heart

• grieve

• mourn

• yearn

• repine

• pine

• droop

• languish

• sink

• give way

• despair

• break one's heart

• weigh upon the heart

• Adj. in pain

• in a state of pain

• full of pain

• suffering

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• pained

• afflicted

• worried

• displeased

• aching

• griped

• sore

• on the rack

• in limbo

• between hawk and buzzard

• uncomfortable

• uneasy

• ill at ease

• in a taking

• in a way

• disturbed;

• discontented

• out of humor

• weary

• heavy laden

• stricken

• crushed

• a prey to

• victimized

• ill-used

• unfortunate

• to be pitied

• doomed

• devoted

• accursed

• undone

• lost

• stranded

• fey

• unhappy

• infelicitous

• poor

• wretched

• miserable

• woe-begone;

• cheerless

• careworn

• concerned

• sorry

• sorrowing

• sorrowful

• cut up

• chagrined

• horrified

• horror-stricken

• in grief

• plunged in grief

• a prey to grief

• in

• tears

• steeped to the lips in misery

• heart-stricken

• heart-broken

• heart-scalded

• broken-hearted

• in despair

• Phr. "the iron entered into our soul"

• haeret lateri lethalis arundo

• [Lat][Vergil]

• one's heart bleeding

• "down

• thou climbing sorrow" [Lear];

• "mirth cannot move a soul in agony" [Love's Labor's Lost]

• nessun maggior

• dolere che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria [It]

• "sorrow's crown

• of sorrow is remembering happier things" [Tennyson]

• "the Niobe of Nations"

• [Byron]

#829. [Capability of giving pleasure

• cause or source of pleasure.]

• Pleasurableness. -- N. pleasurableness

• pleasantness

• agreeableness

• pleasure giving

• delectability

• amusement

• attraction

• attractiveness

• invitingness

• harm

• fascination

• enchantment

• witchery

• seduction

• winning ways

• amenity

• amiability

• winsomeness

• loveliness

• sunny side

• bright side

• sweets

• (sugar)

• goodness

• manna in the wilderness

• land flowing with

• milk and honey

• bittersweet

• fair weather

• treat

• regale

• dainty

• tidbit

• nuts

• V. cause pleasure

• produce pleasure

• create pleasure

• give pleasure

• afford pleasure

• procure pleasure

• offer pleasure

• present pleasure

• yield

• pleasure

• please

• charm

• delight

• gladden

• (make cheerful) 8

• take

• captivate

• fascinate

• enchant

• entrance

• enrapture

• transport

• bewitch

• bless

• beatify

• satisfy

• gratify

• desire

• slake

• satiate

• quench

• indulge

• humor

• flatter

• tickle

• tickle the palate

• regale

• refresh

• enliven

• treat

• amuse

• take one's fancy

• tickle one's fancy

• hit one's fancy

• meet one's wishes

• win the heart

• gladden the heart

• rejoice the heart

• warm the cockles of the heart

• do

• one's heart good

• attract

• allure

• stimulate

• interest

• make things pleasant

• popularize

• gild the pill

• sugar-coat the pill

• sweeten

• Adj. causing pleasure

• pleasure-giving

• pleasing

• pleasant

• pleasurable

• agreeable

• grateful

• gratifying

• leef|

• lief

• acceptable

• welcome

• welcome as the roses in May

• welcomed

• favorite;

• to one's taste

• to one's mind

• to one's liking

• satisfactory

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• refreshing

• comfortable

• cordial

• genial

• glad

• gladsome

• sweet

• delectable

• nice

• dainty

• delicate

• delicious

• dulcet

• luscious

• palatable

• luxurious

• voluptuous

• sensual

• [of people] attractive

• inviting

• prepossessing

• engaging;

• winning

• winsome

• taking

• fascinating

• captivating

• killing

• seducing

• seductive

• heart-robbing

• alluring

• enticing

• appetizing

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• cheering

• bewitching

• enchanting

• entrancing

• charming

• delightful

• felicitous

• exquisite

• lovely

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• ravishing

• rapturous

• heartfelt

• thrilling

• ecstatic

• beatific

• seraphic

• empyrean

• elysian

• palmy

• halcyon

• Saturnian

• Phr. decies repetita placebit[Lat]

• "charms strike the sight but merit

• wins the soul" [Pope]

• "sweetness and light" [Swift]

• beauty is only skin

• deep

#830. [Capability of giving pain

• cause or source of pain]

• Painfulness. -- N. painfulness

• trouble

• care

• trial

• affliction

• infliction

• blow

• stroke

• burden

• load

• curse

• bitter

• pill

• bitter draught

• waters of bitterness

• annoyance

• grievance

• nuisance

• vexation

• mortification

• bore

• bother

• pother

• hot water

• "sea of troubles"

• [Hamlet]

• hornet's nest

• plague

• pest

• cancer

• ulcer

• sting

• thorn

• canker

• scorpion

• doer) 9

• dagger

• scourge

• carking care

• canker worm of care

• mishap

• misfortune

• rub

• source of irritation

• source of annoyance

• wound

• open sore

• sore

• subject

• skeleton in the closet

• thorn in the flesh

• thorn in one's side;

• where the shoe pinches

• gall and wormwood

• sorry sight

• heavy news

• provocation

• affront

• "head and front

• of one's offending" [Othello]

• infestation

• molestation

• malignity

• V. cause pain

• occasion pain

• give pain

• bring pain

• induce pain

• produce pain

• create pain

• inflict pain

• pain

• hurt

• wound

• pinch

• prick

• gripe

• pierce

• cut

• hurt the feelings

• wound the feelings

• grate upon the feelings

• grate

• upon the nerves

• jar upon the feelings

• wring the heart

• pierce the heart

• lacerate the heart

• break the heart

• rend the heart

• make the heart bleed;

• tear the heart strings

• rend the heart strings

• draw tears from the eyes

• sadden

• make unhappy

• plunge into sorrow

• grieve

• afflict

• distress

• cut up

• cut to the heart

• displease

• annoy

• incommode

• discompose

• trouble

• disquiet

• faze

• disturb

• cross

• perplex

• molest

• tease

• tire

• irk

• vex

• mortify

• wherret|

• worry

• plague

• bother

• pester

• bore

• pother

• harass

• harry

• badger

• heckle

• bait

• beset

• infest

• persecute

• importune

• wring

• harrow

• torment

• torture

• bullyrag

• put to the rack

• put to the

• question

• break on the wheel

• rack

• scarify

• crucify;

• convulse

• agonize

• barb the dart

• plant a dagger in the breast

• plant a

• thorn in one's side

• irritate

• provoke

• sting

• nettle

• try the patience

• pique

• fret

• rile

• tweak the nose

• chafe

• gall

• sting to the quick

• wound to the quick

• cut to

• the quick

• aggrieve

• affront

• enrage

• ruffle

• sour the

• temper

• give offense

• maltreat

• bite

• snap at

• assail

• smite

• sicken

• disgust

• revolt

• nauseate

• disenchant

• repel

• offend

• shock

• stink in the nostrils

• go against the stomach

• turn the stomach

• make one

• sick

• set the teeth on edge

• go against the grain

• grate on the ear

• stick

• in one's throat

• stick in one's gizzard

• rankle

• gnaw

• corrode

• horrify

• appall

• freeze the blood

• make the flesh creep

• make the hair

• stand on end

• make the blood curdle

• make the blood run cold

• make one

• shudder

• haunt the memory

• weigh on the heart

• prey on the heart

• weigh on the

• mind

• prey on the mind

• weigh on the spirits

• prey on the spirits

• bring

• one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave

• add a nail to one's coffin

• Adj. causing pain

• hurting

• hurtful

• painful;

• dolorous

• unpleasant

• unpleasing

• displeasing;

• disagreeable

• unpalatable

• bitter

• distasteful

• uninviting

• unwelcome;

• undesirable

• undesired

• obnoxious

• unacceptable

• unpopular

• thankless

• unsatisfactory

• untoward

• unlucky

• uncomfortable

• distressing

• afflicting

• afflictive

• joyless

• cheerless

• comfortless;

• dismal

• disheartening

• depressing

• depressive

• dreary

• melancholy

• grievous

• piteous

• woeful

• rueful

• mournful

• deplorable

• pitiable

• lamentable

• sad

• affecting

• touching

• pathetic

• irritating

• provoking

• stinging

• annoying

• aggravating

• mortifying

• galling

• unaccommodating

• invidious

• vexatious

• troublesome

• tiresome

• irksome

• wearisome

• plaguing

• awkward

• importunate

• teasing

• pestering

• bothering

• harassing

• worrying

• tormenting

• carking

• intolerable

• insufferable

• insupportable

• unbearable

• unendurable;

• past bearing

• not to be borne

• not to be endured

• more than flesh and blood

• can bear

• enough to drive one mad

• enough to provoke a saint

• enough to

• make a parson swear

• enough to gag a maggot

• shocking

• terrific

• grim

• appalling

• crushing

• dreadful

• fearful

• frightful

• thrilling

• tremendous

• dire

• heart-breaking

• heart-rending

• heart-wounding

• heart-corroding

• heart-sickening

• harrowing

• rending

• odious

• hateful

• execrable

• repulsive

• repellent

• abhorrent

• horrid

• horrible

• horrific

• horrifying

• offensive

• nauseous

• nauseating

• disgusting

• sickening

• revolting

• nasty;

• loathsome

• fulsome

• vile

• hideous

• sharp

• acute

• sore

• severe

• grave

• hard

• harsh

• cruel

• biting

• caustic

• cutting

• corroding

• consuming

• racking

• excruciating

• searching

• grinding

• grating

• agonizing

• envenomed

• pyrotic[Med]

• ruinous

• disastrous

• calamitous

• tragical

• desolating

• withering;

• burdensome

• onerous

• oppressive

• cumbrous

• cumbersome

• Adv. painfully

• with pain

• deuced

• Int. hinc illae lachrymae[Lat]!

• the place being too hot to hold

• one

• the iron entering into the soul

• "he jests at scars that never felt a

• wound" [Romeo and Juliet]

• "I must be cruel only to be kind" [Hamlet];

• "what deep wounds ever closed without a scar?" [Byron]

#831. Content. -- N. content

• contentment

• contentedness

• complacency

• satisfaction

• entire satisfaction

• ease

• heart's ease

• peace of mind;

• serenity

• cheerfulness

• ray of comfort

• comfort

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• reconciliation

• resignation

• [person who is contented] waiter on Providence

• V. be content

• rest satisfied

• rest and be thankful

• take the

• good the gods provide

• let well alone

• let well enough alone

• feel oneself

• at home

• hug oneself

• lay the flattering unction to one's soul

• take up with

• take in good part

• accept

• tolerate

• consent

• acquiesce

• assent

• be reconciled to

• make one's peace with

• get

• over it

• take heart

• take comfort

• put up with

• render content

• set at ease

• comfort

• set one's heart at

• ease

• set one's mind at ease

• set one's heart at rest

• set one's mind at

• rest

• speak peace

• conciliate

• reconcile

• win over

• propitiate

• disarm

• beguile

• content

• satisfy

• gratify

• be tolerated

• go down

• go down well

• go down with

• do

• be OK

• Adj. content

• contented

• satisfied

• at ease

• at one's ease

• at

• home

• with the mind at ease

• sine cura[Lat]

• easygoing

• not

• particular

• conciliatory

• of good comfort

• resigned

• (patient) 8

• cheerful

• unafflicted

• unmolested

• serene

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• at rest

• snug

• comfortable

• in one's element

• satisfactory

• tolerable

• good enough

• OK

• all right

• acceptable

• contentedly

• to one's heart's content

• a la

• all for the best

• Int. amen

• very well

• all the better

• so much the

• better

• well and good

• it will do

• that will do

• it cannot be helped

• Phr. nothing comes amiss

• "a heart with room for every joy" [Bailey]

• ich habe genossen das

• irdische Gluck ich habe gelebt und geliebet [Ger][Schiller]

• "nor cast one

• longing lingering look behind" [Gray]

• "shut up in measureless content"

• [Macbeth]

• "sweet are the thoughts that savor of content" [R. Greene];

• "their wants but few their wishes all confined" [Goldsmith]

• might as well

• relax and enjoy it

#832. Discontent. -- N. discontent

• discontentment

• dissatisfaction;

• dissent

• disappointment

• mortification

• cold comfort

• regret

• repining

• taking on

• heart-burning

• heart-grief

• querulousness

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• hypercriticism

• inquietude

• vexation of spirit

• soreness

• worry

• concern

• fear

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• [person who is discontented] malcontent

• grumbler

• growler

• croaker

• dissident

• dissenter

• laudator temporis acti[Lat]

• censurer

• complainer

• fault-finder

• indignation meeting

• "winter of our discontent"

• [Henry VI]

• "with what I most enjoy contented least" [Shakespeare]

• V. be discontented

• quarrel with one's bread and butter;

• repine

• regret

• wish one at the bottom of the Red Sea

• take on

• take to heart

• shrug the shoulders

• make a wry face

• pull a long face

• knit

• one's brows

• look blue

• look black

• look black as thunder

• look blank

• look

• glum

• take in bad part

• take ill

• fret

• chafe

• grumble

• croak

• lament

• cause discontent

• dissatisfy

• disappoint

• mortify

• put out

• disconcert

• cut up

• dishearten

• Adj. discontented

• dissatisfied

• unsatisfied

• ungratified;

• dissident

• dissentient

• malcontent

• malcontented

• exigent

• exacting

• hypercritical

• repining

• regretful

• down in the mouth

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• in high dudgeon

• in a fume

• in the sulks

• in the dumps

• in bad humor;

• glum

• sulky

• sour as a crab

• soured

• sore

• out of humor

• out of temper

• disappointing

• unsatisfactory

• frustrated (failure) 732

• Int. so much the worse!

• Phr. that won't do

• that will never do

• it will never do

• curtae

• nescio quid semper abest rei [Lat][Horace]

• ne Jupiter Quidem omnibus

• "poor in abundance

• famished at a feast" [Young]

#833. Regret. -- N. regret

• repining

• homesickness

• nostalgia

• mal du

• pays

• lamentation

• penitence

• bitterness

• recrimination (accusation) 938

• laudator temporis acti

• V. regret

• deplore

• bewail

• repine

• cast a longing

• lingering look behind

• rue

• rue the day

• repent

• infandum renovare

• dolorem [Lat]

• prey on the mind

• weigh on the mind

• have a weight on the mind

• leave

• an aching void

• Adj. regretting

• regretful

• homesick

• regretted

• much to be regretted

• regrettable

• lamentable

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• Adv. regrettably

• unfortunately

• most unfortunately

• Int. alas!

• what a pity! hang it!

• Phr. 'tis pity

• 'tis too true

• "sigh'd and look'd and sigh'd again"

• [Dryden]

• "I'm sorry."

#834. Relief. -- N. relief

• deliverance

• refreshment

• easement

• softening

• alleviation

• mitigation

• palliation

• soothing

• lullaby

• solace

• consolation

• comfort

• encouragement

• lenitive

• restorative

• cushion

• crumb of

• comfort

• balm in Gilead

• V. relieve

• ease

• alleviate

• mitigate

• palliate

• soothe

• salve;

• soften

• soften down

• foment

• poultice

• assuage

• allay

• cheer

• comfort

• console

• enliven

• encourage

• bear up

• pat on the back

• give comfort

• set at ease

• gladden the heart

• cheer the heart

• inspirit

• invigorate

• remedy

• cure

• refresh

• pour balm into

• pour oil on

• smooth the ruffled brow of care

• temper the wind to the shorn lamb

• lay the flattering unction to one's soul

• disburden

• take a load off one's chest

• get a load off

• one's chest

• take off a load of care

• be relieved

• breathe more freely

• draw a long breath

• take comfort;

• dry the tears

• dry the eyes

• wipe the tears

• wipe the eyes

• Adj. relieving

• consolatory

• soothing

• assuaging

• balmy

• balsamic

• lenitive

• palliative

• anodyne

• (remedial) 6

• curative

• Phr. "here comes a man of comfort" [Measure for Measure]

#835. Aggravation. -- N. aggravation

• worsening

• heightening;

• exacerbation

• exasperation

• overestimation

• exaggeration

• V. aggravate

• render worse

• heighten

• embitter

• sour

• exacerbate;

• exasperate

• envenom

• enrage

• provoke

• tease

• add fuel to the fire

• add fuel to the flame

• fan the flame

• (excite) 8

• go from bad to worse

• Adj. aggravated

• worse

• unrelieved

• aggravating

• Adv. out of the frying pan into the fire

• from bad to worse

• worse and

• worse

• Int. so much the worse!