N. hurtfulness,
virulence, evil doer,
bane, plague spot, evil star, ill wind,
hoodoo,
jonah, snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet, amari aliquid, thorn in the side,
malignity,
malevolence, tender mercies, ill-treatment,
annoyance,
molestation,
abuse, oppression, persecution,
outrage, misusage, injury, knockout drops, badness,
peccancy,
abomination, painfulness,
pestilence, guilt,
depravity V. be hurtful, cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work evil, do evil,
damnify,
endamage,
hurt,
harm,
injure, pain, wrong,
aggrieve,
oppress,
persecute, trample upon, tread upon, bear hard upon, put upon, overburden, weigh down, weigh heavy on,
victimize, run down,
molest,
maltreat,
abuse, ill-use, ill-treat,
buffet,
bruise,
scratch,
maul,
smite, do violence, do harm, do a mischief,
stab,
pierce,
outrage, do mischief, make mischief, bring into trouble, destroy
Adj. hurtful,
harmful,
scathful,
baneful,
baleful, injurious,
deleterious,
detrimental,
noxious,
pernicious,
mischievous, full of mischief,
mischief-making,
malefic,
malignant,
nocuous,
noisome, prejudicial, disserviceable,
disadvantageous, wide-wasting,
unlucky,
sinister,
obnoxious, untoward, disastrous,
oppressive,
burdensome,
onerous,
malign, corrupting &c. (corrupt ),
virulent,
venomous,
envenomed,
corrosive, poisonous, deadly, destructive,
inauspicious, bad, ill,
arrant, as bad as bad can be,
dreadful,
horrid,
horrible,
dire, rank,
peccant, foul,
fulsome,
rotten, rotten at the core,
vile, base,
villainous, mean, injured &c. deteriorated, unsatisfactory, exceptionable, indifferent, below par, illcontrived,
ill-conditioned,
wretched,
sad,
grievous,
deplorable,
lamentable,
pitiful,
pitiable,
woeful, evil, wrong,
depraved,
shocking,
reprehensible,
hateful, hateful as a toad,
abominable,
detestable,
execrable,
cursed,
accursed, confounded,
damned,
damnable,
infernal,
diabolic,
unadvisable, unprofitable, incompetent,
irremediable Adv. badly, wrong, ill, to one's cost, where the shoe pinches
Phr. bad is the best, the worst come to the worst, herba mala presto cresco, "wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged"
N. painfulness, trouble, care, 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", hornet's nest, plague,
pest,
cancer,
ulcer,
sting,
thorn,
canker,
scorpion,
dagger,
scourge, carking care, canker worm of care,
mishap, misfortune, desagrement, esclandre,
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",
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, 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, 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,
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, 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,
hurtful, 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,
hideous, sharp, acute,
sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel,
biting,
caustic, cutting,
corroding,
consuming,
racking,
excruciating, searching,
grinding,
grating,
agonizing,
envenomed,
catheretic,
pyrotic,
ruinous, disastrous,
calamitous,
tragical,
desolating,
withering,
burdensome,
onerous,
oppressive,
cumbrous,
cumbersome Adv. painfully, with pain,
deuced Int. hinc illae lachrymae, phr, surgit amari aliquid, the place being too hot to hold one, the iron entering into the soul, "he jests at scars that never felt a wound", "i must be cruel only to be kind", "what deep wounds ever closed without a scar?"
N. ugliness,
deformity,
inelegance, acomia, disfigurement, want of symmetry,
inconcinnity,
distortion,
squalor, forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, "spretae injuria formae",
eyesore, object,
witch,
hag, figure, sight,
fright,
monster, dog, woofer, pig,
octopus,
specter,
scarecrow, harridan|, satyr|,
toad,
monkey,
baboon, caliban,
aesop, "monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum"
V. be ugly, look ill, grin horribly a ghastly smile, make faces, render ugly,
deface, disfigure, defigure|,
distort,
blemish, soil
Adj. ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey, plain, bald (unadorned) 849, homely, ordinary, unornamental, inartistic, unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely, unshapely, sightless, seemless, not fit to be seen,
unbeauteous, unbeautiful,
beautiless, semibeautiful, shapeless,
misshapen, misproportioned,
monstrous,
gaunt,
dumpy, curtailed of its fair proportions, ill-made, ill- shaped, ill-proportioned,
crooked, hard featured, hard visaged,
ill-favored,
hard-favored,
evil-favored,
ill-looking,
unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing, graceless, inelegant, ungraceful, ungainly,
uncouth, stiff,
rugged, rough, gross, rude,
awkward,
clumsy,
slouching,
rickety,
gawky,
lumping,
lumpish,
lumbering,
hulky,
hulking,
unwieldy,
squalid,
haggard,
grim, grim faced, grim visaged,
grisly,
ghastly, ghost like, death like,
cadaverous,
grewsome,
gruesome,
frightful,
hideous,
odious,
uncanny,
forbidding, repellant,
repulsive,
repugnant,
grotesque,
bizarre, grody, grody to the max,
horrid,
horrible,
shocking, foul,
dingy,
gaudy, disfigured, discolored
N. vulgarity,
vulgarism,
barbarism,
vandalism, gothicism|, mauvis gout, bad taste,
gaucherie,
awkwardness, want of tact,
ill-breeding, courseness,
indecorum,
misbehavior, lowness,
homeliness, low life, mauvais ton,
rusticity,
boorishness,
brutality,
rowdyism,
blackguardism,
ribaldry,
slang, bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie,
gaudiness,
tawdriness, false ornament,
finery,
frippery,
trickery,
tinsel,
gewgaw,
clinquant,
baroque,
rococo, rough diamond,
tomboy,
hoyden,
cub, unlicked cub,
clown,
goth,
vandal,
boeotian,
snob,
cad,
gent,
parvenu,
frump,
dowdy,
slattern V. be vulgar,
misbehave, talk shop, smell of the shop
Adj. in bad taste vulgar, unrefined, coarse,
indecorous,
ribald, gross, unseemly,
unbeseeming, unpresentable, contra bonos mores, ungraceful,
dowdy,
slovenly,
ungenteel, shabby genteel, low, common, hoi polloi, uncourtly, uncivil, ill bred, ill mannered,
underbred, ungentlemanly,
ungentlemanlike, unladylike, unfeminine, wild, wild as an unbacked colt, untutored, unschooled (ignorant) 491,
unkempt,
uncombed,
untamed,
unlicked, unpolished,
uncouth,
plebeian,
incondite, heavy, rude,
awkward, homely,
homespun, home bred, provincial,
countrified,
rustic,
boorish,
clownish, savage,
brutish,
blackguard,
rowdy,
snobbish, barbarous,
barbaric, gothic, unclassical,
doggerel,
heathenish,
tramontane,
outlandish, uncultivated,
bohemian, obsolete, unfashionable,
newfangled, odd, particular, affected,
meretricious,
extravagant,
monstrous,
horrid,
shocking,
gaudy,
tawdry, overornamented,
baroque,
rococo,
bedizened, tricked out,
gingerbread,
obtrusive Fear Roget’s Thesaurus §860 N. fear,
timidity,
diffidence, want of confidence,
apprehensiveness,
fearfulness,
solicitude,
anxiety, care,
apprehension, misgiving,
feeze, mistrust, suspicion,
qualm,
hesitation, nervousness,
restlessness,
inquietude,
disquietude,
worry,
concern, batophobia,
heartquake,
flutter,
trepidation, fear and trembling,
perturbation,
tremor,
quivering,
shaking,
trembling, throbbing heart,
palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat, abject fear, mortal funk, heartsinking,
despondency,
despair,
fright,
affright,
affrightment, boof alarm,
dread,
awe, terror,
horror, dismay,
consternation,
panic,
scare,
stampede,
intimidation,
terrorism, reign of terror, bug bear,
bugaboo,
scarecrow,
hobgoblin,
nightmare,
gorgon,
mormo,
ogre, hurlothrumbo, raw head and bloody bones,
fee-faw-fum,
bete noire, enfant terrible,
alarmist V. fear, stand in awe of, be afraid, have qualms,
apprehend, sit upon thorns, eye askance, distrust,
hesitate,
falter,
funk, cower,
crouch,
skulk, "let 'i dare not' wait upon 'i would'", take fright, take alarm, start,
wince,
flinch,
shy,
shrink, fly,
tremble,
shake,
shiver, shiver in one's shoes,
shudder,
flutter, shake like an aspen leaf, tremble like an aspen leaf, tremble all over,
quake,
quaver,
quiver,
quail, grow pale, turn pale,
blench, stand aghast, not dare to say one's soul is one's own, inspire fear, excite fear, inspire awe, excite awe, raise aprehensions, be in a daze,
bulldoze,
faze,
feeze, give an alarm, raise an alarm, sound an alarm,
alarm,
startle,
scare, cry "wolf," disquiet, dismay,
fright,
frighten,
terrify,
astound, fright from one's propriety, fright out of one's senses, fright out of one's wits, fright out of one's seven senses,
awe, strike all of a heap, strike an awe into, strike terror, harrow up the soul,
appall, unman,
petrify,
horrify, pile on the agony, make one's flesh creep, make one's hair stand on end, make one's blood run cold, make one's teeth chatter, take away one's breath, stop one's breath, make one tremble &c. haunt, prey on the mind, weigh on the mind, put in fear, put in bodily fear,
terrorize,
intimidate, cow,
daunt,
overawe,
abash,
deter, discourage,
browbeat,
bully,
threaten Adj. fearing,
frightened, in fear, in a fright, haunted with the fear of,
afeard, afraid, fearful,
timid,
timorous, nervous,
diffident,
coy, faint- hearted,
tremulous,
shaky, afraid of one's shadow,
apprehensive, restless,
fidgety, more frightened than hurt,
aghast,
awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic- stricken,
awestruck,
awe-stricken,
horror-struck, frightened to death, white as a sheet, pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes, breathless, in hysterics, inspiring fear,
alarming, formidable, redoubtable,
perilous,
portentous, fearful,
dread,
dreadful, fell,
dire,
direful,
shocking, terrible,
terrific,
tremendous,
horrid,
horrible,
horrific,
ghastly,
awful,
awe-inspiring, revolting,
gorgonian Adv. in terrorem
Phr. ante tubam trepidat, horresco referens, one's heart failing one, obstupui steteruntque comae et vox faucibus haesit, "a dagger of the mind", expertus metuit, "fain would i climb but that i fear to fall", "fear is the parent of cruelty", "gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire", omnia tuta timens, "our fears do make us traitors"
Int. "angels and ministers of grace defend us!"