pain

Roget category 828

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.1. Passive affections

#828. Pain

noun

mental suffering, pain, dolor — suffering, sufferance — ache, smart etc. (physical pain) 378 — passion.
displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet — malaise — inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit — taking — discontent etc. 832.
dejection etc. 837 — weariness etc. 841 — anhedonia^†.
annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation — plague, bore — bother, botheration — stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre [Fr.] — mauvais quart d'heur [Fr.].
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 etc. 859 — extremity, prostration, depth of misery.
nightmare, ephialtes^†, incubus.
pang, anguish, agony — torture, torment — purgatory etc. (hell) 982.
hell upon earth — iron age, reign of terror — slough of despond etc. (adversity) 735 — peck of troubles — ills that flesh is heir to" etc. (evil) 619 [Hamlet]; miseries of human life — unkindest cut of all" [Julius Caesar]. sufferer, victim, prey, martyr, object of compassion, wretch, shorn lamb.

verb

feel pain, suffer pain, experience pain, undergo pain, bear pain, endure pain etc. n., smart, ache etc. (physical pain) 378 — 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 etc. (adversity) 735 — go hard with, come to grief, fall a sacrifice to, drain the cup of misery to the dregs, sup full of horrors" [Macbeth]. 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 etc. (lament) 839 — yearn, repine, pine, droop, languish, sink — give way — despair etc. 859 — break one's heart — weigh upon the heart etc. (inflict pain) 830.

adjective

in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain etc. n. — suffering etc. v. — pained, afflicted, worried, displeased etc. 830 — aching, griped, sore etc. (physical pain) 378 — on the rack, in limbo — between hawk and buzzard.
uncomfortable, uneasy — ill at ease — in a taking, in a way — disturbed — discontented etc. 832 — out of humor etc. 901.1; weary etc. 841.
heavy laden, stricken, crushed, a prey to, victimized, ill-used.
unfortunate etc. (hapless) 735 — to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded — fey.
unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone — cheerless etc. (dejected) 837 — careworn.
concerned, sorry — sorrowing, sorrowful — cut up, chagrined, horrified, horror-stricken — in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief etc. n. — in tears etc. (lamenting) 839 — steeped to the lips in misery — heart-stricken, heart-broken, heart-scalded — broken-hearted — in despair etc. 859.

phrase

the iron entered into our soul —" haeret lateri lethalis arundo [Lat.] [Vergil]; one's heart bleeding — down, thou climbing sorrow" [Lear]; mirth cannot move a soul in agony" [Love's Labor's Lost]; nessun maggior dolere che ricordarsi del tempo nessun maggior dolere che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria [It] — sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things" [Tennyson]; the Niobe of Nations" [Byron].

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