Pain Roget’s Thesaurus §828 N. mental suffering, pain,
dolor, suffering,
sufferance,
ache,
smart, passion, displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort,
discomposure, disquiet,
malaise,
inquietude,
uneasiness, vexation of spirit, taking, discontent,
dejection,
weariness, anhedonia,
annoyance,
irritation,
worry,
infliction,
visitation, plague, bore, bother,
botheration,
stew,
vexation,
mortification,
chagrin, esclandre, mauvais quart d'heur, 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, extremity,
prostration, depth of misery,
nightmare,
ephialtes,
incubus,
pang,
anguish,
agony,
torture,
torment,
purgatory, hell upon earth, iron age, reign of terror, slough of despond, peck of troubles, "ills that flesh is heir to", miseries of human life, "unkindest cut of all", sufferer,
victim, prey,
martyr, object of compassion,
wretch, shorn lamb
V. feel pain, suffer pain, experience pain, undergo pain, bear pain, endure pain,
smart,
ache, 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, go hard with, come to grief, fall a sacrifice to, drain the cup of misery to the dregs, "sup full of horrors", 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,
yearn, repine, pine,
droop,
languish, sink, give way,
despair, break one's heart, weigh upon the heart
Adj. in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain, suffering, pained,
afflicted,
worried, displeased,
aching,
griped,
sore, on the rack, in limbo, between hawk and buzzard, uncomfortable, uneasy, ill at ease, in a taking, in a way, disturbed, discontented, out of humor,
weary, heavy laden,
stricken,
crushed, a prey to,
victimized,
ill-used, unfortunate, to be pitied,
doomed, devoted,
accursed, undone, lost,
stranded,
fey, unhappy,
infelicitous, poor,
wretched,
miserable,
woe-begone,
cheerless,
careworn, concerned,
sorry, sorrowing,
sorrowful, cut up,
chagrined,
horrified, horror-stricken, in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief, in tears, steeped to the lips in misery, heart-stricken,
heart-broken, heart-scalded,
broken-hearted, in despair
Phr. "the iron entered into our soul", haeret lateri lethalis arundo, one's heart bleeding, "down, thou climbing sorrow", "mirth cannot move a soul in agony", nessun maggior dolere che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria, "sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things", "the niobe of nations"
N. lament,
lamentation,
wail,
complaint,
plaint,
murmur,
mutter,
grumble,
groan,
moan,
whine,
whimper,
sob,
sigh,
suspiration,
heaving, deep sigh, cry,
scream,
howl, outcry, wail of woe,
ululation,
frown,
scowl,
tear,
weeping, flood of tears, fit of crying, lacrimation,
lachrymation, melting mood, weeping and gnashing of teeth,
plaintiveness,
languishment,
condolence,
mourning, weeds,
willow,
cypress,
crape, deep mourning, sackcloth and ashes,
lachrymatory,
knell, deep death song,
dirge,
coronach,
nenia,
requiem,
elegy,
epicedium,
threne,
monody,
threnody,
jeremiad, jeremiade|, ullalulla,
mourner,
grumbler, noobe,
heraclitus V. lament,
mourn,
deplore,
grieve, weep over,
bewail,
bemoan, condole with,
fret, wear mourning, go into mourning, put on mourning, wear the willow, wear sackcloth and ashes, infandum renovare dolorem, give sorrow words,
sigh, give a sigh,
heave, fetch a sigh, "waft a sigh from indus to the pole", sigh "like a furnace",
wail, cry,
weep,
sob,
greet,
blubber, pipe,
snivel,
bibber,
whimper,
pule, pipe one's eye, drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear, melt into tears, burst into tears, fondre en larmes, cry oneself blind, cry one's eyes out, yammer,
scream,
mew,
groan,
moan,
whine,
roar, roar like a bull, bellow like a bull, cry out lustily, rend the air,
frown,
scowl, make a wry face, gnash one's teeth, wring one's hands, tear one's hair, beat one's breast, roll on the ground, burst with grief,
complain,
murmur,
mutter,
grumble,
growl,
clamor, make a fuss about,
croak,
grunt,
maunder,
deprecate, cry out before one is hurt, complain without cause
Adj. lamenting, in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes, sorrowing,
sorrowful,
mournful,
tearful,
lachrymose,
plaintive,
plaintful,
querulous,
querimonious, in the melting mood,
threnetic, in tears, with tears in one's eyes, with moistened eyes, with watery eyes, bathed in tears, dissolved in tears, "like niobe all tears",
elegiac,
epicedial Adv. de profundis, les larmes aux yeux
Int. heigh-ho,
alas,
alack, o dear, ah me, woe is me,
lackadaisy, well a day, lack a day, alack a day, wellaway, alas the day, o tempora o mores, what a pity, miserabile dictu, o lud lud, too true, phr, tears standing in the eyes, tears starting from the eyes, eyes suffused, eyes swimming, eyes brimming, eyes overflowing with tears, "if you have tears prepare to shed them now", interdum lacrymae pondera vocis habent, "strangled his language in his tears", "tears such as angels weep"