(adversity) 735; peck of troubles; "ills that flesh is heir to" &c.
(evil) 619[Hamlet]; 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 &c. n., smart, ache &c. (physical pain)
378; 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 &c. (adversity) 735; 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; cark[obs3]. grieve; mourn &c. (lament) 839; yearn, repine, pine,
droop, languish, sink; give way; despair &c. 859; break one's heart;
weigh upon the heart &c. (inflict pain) 830. Adj. in pain, in a state
of pain, full of pain &c. n.; suffering &c. v.; pained, afflicted,
worried, displeased &c. 830; aching, griped, sore &c. (physical pain)
378; on the rack, in limbo; between hawk and buzzard. uncomfortable,
uneasy; ill at ease; in a taking, in a way; disturbed; discontented &c.
832; out of humor &c. 901a; weary &c. 841. heavy laden, stricken,
crushed, a prey to, victimized, ill-used. unfortunate &c. (hapless)
735; to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded;
fey. unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone;
cheerless &c. (dejected) 837; careworn. concerned, sorry; sorrowing,
sorrowful; cut up, chagrined, horrified, horror-stricken; in grief,
plunged in grief, a prey to grief &c. n.; in tears &c. (lamenting) 839;
steeped to the lips in misery; heart-stricken, heart-broken,
heart-scalded; broken-hearted; in despair &c. 859. 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 &c.
adj.; pleasure giving, jucundity[obs3], delectability; amusement &c.