sorry sight
noun
Roget 830:
painfulness
etc.
adj.;
trouble,
care
etc.
(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
etc.
(bane)
663;
scorpion
etc.
(evil doer)
913;
dagger
etc.
(arms)
727;
scourge
etc.
(instrument of punishment)
975;
carking care,
canker worm of care.
mishap,
misfortune
etc.
(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
etc.
929;
head and front of one's offending"
[Othello].
infestation,
molestation;
malignity
etc.
(malevolence)
907.
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Roget 837:
dejection;
dejectedness
etc.
adj.;
depression,
prosternation†;
lowness of spirits,
depression of spirits;
weight on the spirits,
oppression on the spirits,
damp on the spirits;
low spirits,
bad spirits,
drooping spirits,
depressed spirits;
heart sinking;
heaviness of heart,
failure of heart.
heaviness
etc.
adj.;
infestivity†,
gloom;
weariness
etc.
841;
taedium vitae,
disgust of life;
mal du pays
etc.
(regret)
833;
anhedonia†.
melancholy;
sadness
etc.
adj.;
il penseroso [It],
melancholia,
dismals†,
blues,
lachrymals†,
mumps†,
dumps,
blue devils,
doldrums;
vapors,
megrims,
spleen,
horrors,
hypochondriasis [Med.],
pessimism;
la maladie sans maladie [Fr.];
despondency,
slough of Despond;
disconsolateness
etc.
adj.;
hope deferred,
blank despondency;
voiceless woe.
prostration of soul;
broken heart;
despair
etc.
859;
cave of despair,
cave of Trophonius demureness
etc.
adj.;
gravity,
solemnity;
long face,
grave face.
hypochondriac,
seek sorrow,
self-tormentor,
heautontimorumenos†,
malade imaginaire [Fr.],
medecin tant pis [Fr.];
croaker,
pessimist;
mope,
mopus†.
[Cause of dejection]
affliction
etc.
830;
sorry sight;
memento mori [Lat.];
damper,
wet blanket,
Job's comforter.
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