— N. painfulness &c adj.; trouble, care &c (pain) 828; trial;
affliction, infliction; blow, stroke, burden, load, curse; bitter pill,
bitter draught; waters of bitterness.
annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification, sickener†;
bore, bother, pother, hot water, sea of troubles [Hamlet], hornet's
nest, plague, pest.
cancer, ulcer, sting, thorn; canker &c (bane) 663; scorpion &c
(evil doer) 913; dagger &c (arms) 727; scourge &c (instrument of
punishment) 975; carking care, canker worm of care.
mishap, misfortune &c (adversity) 735; desagrement [Fr.],
esclandre [Fr.], 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 &c 929; head and
front of one's offending [Othello].
infestation, molestation; malignity &c (malevolence) 907.
V. cause pain, occasion pain, give pain, bring pain, induce pain,
produce pain, create pain, inflict pain &c 828; pain, hurt, wound.
pinch, prick, gripe &c (physical pain) 378; pierce, lancinate†,
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 &c 828; plunge into sorrow, grieve, fash†,
afflict, distress; cut up, cut to the heart.
displease, annoy, incommode, discompose, trouble, disquiet; faze,
feaze†, feeze [U.S.]; 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; cruciate†, 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, enchafe†, enrage, ruffle,
sour the temper; give offense &c (resentment) 900.
maltreat, bite, snap at, assail; smite &c (punish) 972.
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, appal†, 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 &c v.; hurtful &c (bad) 649; painful;
dolorific†, 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, plaguy†; 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, loathful†; fulsome; vile &c (bad) 649; hideous &c 846.
sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting,
caustic; cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating,
searching, grinding, grating, agonizing; envenomed; catheretic†, pyrotic
[Med.].
ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, tragical; desolating, withering;
burdensome, onerous, oppressive; cumbrous, cumbersome.
Adv. painfully &c adj.; with pain &c 828; deuced.
Int. hinc illae lachrymae! [Lat.],
Phr. surgit amari aliquid [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].