ache, smart &c (physical pain) 378; passion.
displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet;
malaise; inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit; taking; discontent
&c 832.
dejection &c 837; weariness &c 841; anhedonia†.
annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation; plague,
bore; bother, botheration; stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin,
esclandre [Fr.]; mauvais quart d'heur [Fr.].
care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal,
shock, blow, cark†, 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 &c 859; extremity, prostration, depth of misery.
nightmare, ephialtes†, incubus.
pang, anguish, agony; torture, torment; purgatory &c (hell) 982.
hell upon earth; iron age, reign of terror; slough of despond &c
(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†.
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 901.1; 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].