N. pain, suffering,
sufferance,
suffrance, bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain, mental suffering, dolour,
ache,
aching,
smart, shoot, shooting,
twinge,
twitch,
gripe,
headache, stomach ache,
heartburn,
angina,
angina pectoris,
hurt, cut,
sore,
soreness, discomfort,
malaise,
cephalalgia,
earache,
gout, ischiagra,
lumbago,
neuralgia,
odontalgia,
otalgia,
podagra,
rheumatism,
sciatica,
tic douloureux,
toothache,
tormina,
torticollis,
spasm,
cramp,
nightmare,
ephialtes,
crick,
stitch,
thrill,
convulsion,
throe,
throb,
pang,
colic,
kink, sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain,
sting, gnawing pain, burning pain, excruciating pain,
anguish,
agony,
torment,
torture,
rack,
cruciation,
crucifixion,
martyrdom, toad under a harrow,
vivisection V. feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain, suffer,
ache,
smart,
bleed,
tingle, shoot,
twinge,
twitch, lancinate,
writhe,
wince, make a wry face, sit on thorns, sit on pins and needles, give pain, inflict pain,
lacerate, pain,
hurt,
chafe,
sting,
bite,
gnaw,
gripe,
pinch,
tweak,
grate, gall,
fret,
prick,
pierce,
wring,
convulse,
torment,
torture,
rack,
agonize,
crucify,
cruciate, excruciate|, break on the wheel, put to the rack,
flog, grate on the ear
Adj. in pain, in a state of pain, pained,
gouty,
podagric,
torminous, painful,
aching,
sore, raw, 2. special sensation (1) touch
Evil Roget’s Thesaurus §619 N. evil, ill,
harm,
hurt, mischief,
nuisance, # machinations of the devil, pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to, blow,
buffet, stroke,
scratch,
bruise, wound,
gash,
mutilation, mortal blow, wound, immedicabile vulnus, damage, loss, disadvantage,
prejudice,
drawback,
disaster, accident,
casualty,
mishap, bad job, devil to pay,
calamity,
bale,
catastrophe, tragedy, ruin,
adversity, mental suffering, * demon &v, 980,
bane, badness, painfulness, evil doer,
outrage, wrong, injury, foul play, bad turn, ill turn, disservice,
spoliation,
grievance, crying evil
V. be in trouble
Adv. amis, wrong, ill, to one's cost
Phr. "moving accidents by flood and field", section ii, prospective volition 1, conceptional volition
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. deterioration,
debasement,
wane,
ebb,
recession,
retrogradation, decrease,
degeneracy,
degeneration,
degenerateness,
degradation,
depravation,
depravement,
devolution,
depravity,
demoralization,
retrogression, masochism, impairment, inquination|, injury, damage, loss,
detriment, delaceration|,
outrage,
havoc, inroad,
ravage,
scath,
perversion,
prostitution,
vitiation,
discoloration,
oxidation,
pollution, defoedation|, poisoning, venenation|,
leaven,
contamination,
canker, corruption,
adulteration,
alloy, decline,
declension, declination,
decadence,
decadency, falling off,
caducity,
decrepitude, decay,
dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear,
corrosion,
erosion,
moldiness,
rottenness, moth and rust,
dry rot,
blight,
marasmus,
atrophy,
collapse, disorganization, delabrement &c. (destruction), 162,
aphid,
aphis, plant louse,
puceron, vinefretter, vinegrub,
wreck, mere wreck,
honeycomb, magni nominis umbra,
jade,
plug,
rackabones,
skate,
tackey,
tacky V. be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated, have seen better days,
deteriorate,
degenerate, fall off,
wane,
ebb, retrograde - decline,
droop, go down, go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse, jump out of the frying pan into the fire, run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale|, sweal|,
lapse, be the worse for,
sphacelate, break, break down, spring a leak,
crack, start,
shrivel,
fade, go off, wither,
molder,
rot,
rankle, decay, go bad, go to decay, fall into decay, "fall into the sear and yellow leaf",
rust,
crumble,
shake,
totter, totter to its fall, perish, die,
deteriorate,
weaken, put back, set back,
taint,
infect,
contaminate, poison,
empoison,
envenom,
canker, corrupt, exulcerate|,
pollute,
vitiate, inquinate|,
debase, embase|,
denaturalize, denature,
leaven,
deflower,
debauch,
defile,
deprave,
degrade,
ulcerate,
stain, discolor,
alloy,
adulterate,
sophisticate, tamper with,
prejudice,
pervert,
prostitute,
demoralize,
brutalize, render vicious,
embitter,
acerbate,
exacerbate,
aggravate,
injure, impair,
labefy, damage,
harm,
hurt, shend|, scath|,
scathe,
spoil,
mar,
despoil,
dilapidate, waste, overrun,
ravage,
pillage, wound,
stab,
pierce,
maim,
lame, surbate|,
cripple,
hough,
hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch,
mangle,
mutilate, disfigure,
blemish,
deface,
warp,
blight,
rot,
corrode,
erode, wear away, wear out,
gnaw, gnaw at the root of,
sap, mine, undermine,
shake, sap the foundations of, break up,
disorganize,
dismantle, dismast, destroy,
damnify, do one's worst, knock down, deal a blow to, play havoc with, play sad havoc with, play the mischief with, play the deuce with, play the very devil with, play havoc among, play sad havoc among, play the mischief among, play the deuce among, play the very devil among,
decimate Adj. unimproved &c. (improve ),
deteriorated, altered, altered for the worse, injured, sprung,
withering,
spoiling, on the wane, on the decline,
tabid,
degenerate, marescent, worse, the worse for, all the worse for, out of repair, out of tune, imperfect, the worse for wear,
battered, weathered,
weather-beaten,
stale,
passe,
shaken,
dilapidated,
frayed,
faded,
wilted,
shabby,
secondhand,
threadbare, worn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags, reduced, reduced to a skeleton, far gone,
tacky, decayed, moth-eaten,
worm-eaten,
mildewed,
rusty,
moldy,
spotted,
seedy,
time-worn,
moss-grown, discolored,
effete, wasted,
crumbling,
moldering,
rotten,
cankered,
blighted,
tainted,
depraved, decrepid,
decrepit, broke, busted, broken, out of commission,
hors de combat, out of action, broken down, done, done for, done up, worn out, used up, finished, beyond saving, fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, past work, at a low ebb, in a bad way, on one's last legs, undermined,
deciduous, nodding to its fall, tottering &c, (dangerous) 665: past cure,
fatigued,
retrograde,
deleterious Phr. out of the frying pan into the fire, agrescit medendo, "what a falling off was there!"
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. resentment, displeasure,
animosity, anger, wrath,
indignation,
exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation,
pique,
umbrage,
huff,
miff,
soreness,
dudgeon,
acerbity,
virulence, bitterness,
acrimony,
asperity,
spleen, gall,
heart-burning, heart- swelling,
rankling, ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad temper,
irascibility, ill blood,
revenge, excitement,
irritation,
warmth,
bile,
choler,
ire,
fume,
pucker,
dander,
ferment,
ebullition, towering passion,
acharnement, angry mood, taking,
pet,
tiff, passion, fit, tantrums,
burst,
explosion,
paroxysm, storm,
rage,
fury,
desperation, violence, fire and fury, vials of wrath, gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words,
scowl,
sulks,
affront,
provocation,
offense, indignity,
grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli, ill turn,
outrage,
furies,
eumenides,
buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles
V. resent, take amiss, take ill, take to heart, take offense, take umbrage, take huff, take exception, take in ill part, take in bad part, take in dudgeon, ne pas entendre raillerie, breathe revenge, cut up rough, fly into a rage, fall into a rage, get into a rage, fly into a passion, bridle up, bristle up, froth up, fire up, flare up, open the vials of one's wrath, pour out the vials of one's wrath,
pout, knit the brow,
frown,
scowl, lower,
snarl,
growl,
gnarl,
gnash,
snap,
redden, color, look black, look black as thunder, look daggers, bite one's thumb, show one's teeth, grind one's teeth, champ the bit, champ at the bit,
chafe,
mantle,
fume,
kindle, fly out, take fire,
boil, boil over, boil with indignation, boil with rage,
rage, storm,
foam, vent one's rage, vent one's spleen, lose one's temper, stand on one's hind legs, stamp the foot, stamp with rage, quiver with rage, swell with rage, foam with rage, burst with anger, raise cain, have a fling at, bear malice, cause anger, raise anger,
affront,
offend, give offense, give umbrage, anger, hurt the feelings,
insult,
discompose,
fret,
ruffle,
nettle,
huff,
pique, excite,
irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile,
sting, sting to the quick,
rile,
provoke,
chafe, wound, incense, inflame,
enrage,
aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach,
envenom,
embitter,
exasperate,
infuriate, kindle wrath, stick in one's gizzard, rankle &e, 919, hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw, put out of countenance, put out of humor, put one's monkey up, put one's back up, raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler, work up into a passion, make one's blood boil, make the ears tingle, throw, into a ferment,
madden, drive one mad, lash into fury, lash into madness, fool to the top of one's bent, set by the ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears
Adj. angry, wrath,
irate,
ireful, wrathful, cross,
achillean,
sulky,
&c. 901a, bitter,
virulent, acrimonious &c. (discourteous), violent, warm, burning, boiling, boiling over,
fuming,
raging,
foaming, foaming at the mouth, convulsed with rage,
offended,
waxy, acharne, wrought, worked up,
indignant,
hurt,
sore, set against, fierce, wild,
rageful,
furious, mad with rage,
fiery,
infuriate,
rabid, savage, relentless, flushed with anger, flushed with rage, in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way, on one's high ropes, up in arms, in high dudgeon
Adv. angrily, in the height of passion, in the heat of passion, in the heat of the moment
Int. tantaene animis coelestibus irae, marry come up,
zounds,
'sdeath, phr, one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up, fervens difficili bile jecur, the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire, the blood rising, the blood boiling, haeret lateri lethalis arundo, "beware the fury of a patient man", furor arma ministrat, ira furor brevis est, quem jupiter vult perdere dementat prius, "what, drunk with choler?"
N. malevolence, bad intent, bad intention, unkindness, diskindness, ill nature, ill will, ill blood, bad blood,
enmity,
hate,
malignity,
malice, malice prepense,
maliciousness, spite,
despite, resentment,
uncharitableness, incompassionateness, gall,
venom,
rancor,
rankling,
virulence,
mordacity, acerbity churlishness, hardness of heart, heart of stone,
obduracy, cruelty, cruelness,
brutality,
savagery,
ferity,
ferocity,
barbarity, inhumanity, immanity|,
truculence, ruffianism,
evil eye, cloven foot,
torture,
vivisection, ill turn, bad turn,
affront,
outrage,
atrocity, ill usage,
intolerance, persecution, tender mercies, "unkindest cut of all"
V. be malevolent, bear spleen, harbor spleen, bear a grudge, harbor a grudge, bear malice, betray the cloven foot, show the cloven foot,
hurt,
annoy,
injure,
harm, wrong, do harm to, do an ill office to,
outrage,
disoblige,
malign, plant a thorn in the breast,
molest,
worry,
harass,
haunt,
harry,
bait,
tease, throw stones at, play the devil with, hunt down,
dragoon,
hound,
persecute,
oppress,
grind,
maltreat,
illtreat, ill-use, wreak one's malice on, do one's worst, break a butterfly on the wheel, dip one's hands in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood, have no mercy
Adj. malevolent,
unbenevolent,
unbenign, ill-disposed, ill- intentioned,
ill-natured,
ill-conditioned, ill-contrived,
evil-minded, evil-disposed,
black-browed,
malicious,
malign,
malignant,
rancorous,
despiteful, spiteful,
mordacious,
caustic, bitter,
envenomed,
acrimonious,
virulent,
unamiable,
uncharitable,
maleficent,
venomous,
grinding, galling, harsh,
disobliging, unkind, unfriendly,
ungracious,
inofficious,
invidious,
uncandid,
churlish, surly,
sullen, cold,
cold-blooded,
cold-hearted,
black-hearted,
hard-hearted, flint- hearted, marble-hearted,
stony-hearted, hard of heart, unnatural,
ruthless, relentless, cruel,
brutal,
brutish, savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger,
ferine,
ferocious, inhuman, barbarous,
barbaric,
semibarbaric, fell,
untamed,
tameless,
truculent,
incendiary,
bloodthirsty,
atrocious, bloodyminded,
fiendish,
fiendlike,
demoniacal,
diabolic,
diabolical,
devilish,
infernal,
hellish,
satanic, tartaran
Phr. cruel as death, "hard unkindness' alter'd eye", homo homini lupus, mala mens, malus animus, "rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind", "sharp-tooth'd unkindness"