| Main Entry: | misery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pain, mental or physical |
Synonyms: |
ache, agony, anguish, anvil chorus, bad news, blues, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, distress, dolor, gloom, grief, hardship, headache, heartache, hurting, melancholy, pang, passion, sadness, sorrow, squalor, stitch, suffering, throe, torment, torture, twinge, unhappiness, woe, worriment, worry, wretchedness |
Antonyms: |
cheer, delight, fun, gladness, happiness, joy, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | misery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trouble, disaster |
Synonyms: |
adversity, affliction, anxiety, bitter pill, burden, calamity, catastrophe, curse, destitution, difficulty, grief, indigence, load, misfortune, need, ordeal, penury, poverty, privation, problem, sordidness, sorrow, squalor, trial, tribulation, want, woe |
Antonyms: |
advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, good fortune, good luck |
| Main Entry: | ache |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sore feeling; dull pain |
Synonyms: |
anguish, hurt, misery, pang, pounding, smarting, soreness, spasm, suffering, throb, throbbing, throe, twinge |
| Notes: | a pain is something that hurts; an ache is a prolonged dull pain |
Antonyms: |
comfort, ease, health, relief |
| Main Entry: | adversity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad luck, situation |
Synonyms: |
affliction, bad break, bummer, calamity, can of worms, catastrophe, clutch, contretemps, crunch, difficulty, disaster, distress, downer, drag*, evil eye, hard knocks, hard times, hardship, hurting, ill fortune, jam, jinx, kiss of death, misery, misfortune, mishap, on the skids, pain in the neck, poison*, reverse, sorrow, suffering, the worst, tough luck, trial, trouble |
Antonyms: |
aid, encouragement, favor, fortune, good luck, help, prosperity |
| Main Entry: | affliction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hurt condition; something that causes hurt |
Synonyms: |
adversity, anguish, calamity, cross, crux, depression, difficulty, disease, disorder, distress, grief, hardship, illness, infirmity, misery, misfortune, ordeal, pain, plague, plight, scourge, sickness, sorrow, suffering, torment, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe |
Antonyms: |
aid, comfort, consolation, health, help, relief |
| Main Entry: | agony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suffering, pain |
Synonyms: |
affliction, anguish, distress, dolor, misery, pangs, passion, throes, torment, torture, woe |
Antonyms: |
comfort, happiness, health, peace, success |
| Main Entry: | albatross |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
Synonyms: |
cross to bear, disgrace, load, millstone, misery, woe |
| Main Entry: | anguish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severe upset or pain |
Synonyms: |
affliction, agony, distress, dole, dolor, grief, heartache, heartbreak, hurting, misery, pang, rue, sorrow, suffering, throe, torment, torture, woe, wretchedness |
Antonyms: |
comfort, contentment, happiness, joy, joyfulness, solace |
| Main Entry: | anxiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worry, tension |
Synonyms: |
all-overs, angst, ants in pants, apprehension, botheration, butterflies, care, cold sweat, concern, creeps, disquiet, disquietude, distress, doubt, downer, drag*, dread, fidgets, flap, foreboding, fretfulness, fuss, goose bumps, heebie-jeebies, jitters, jumps, misery, misgiving, mistrust, nail-biting, needles, nervousness, panic, pins and needles, restlessness, shakes, shivers, solicitude, suffering, suspense, sweat*, trouble, uncertainty, unease, uneasiness, watchfulness, willies, worriment |
Antonyms: |
assurance, calmness, composure, contentment, ease, happiness, nonchalance, peace, tranquility |
| Main Entry: | bane |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cause of misery |
Synonyms: |
affliction, blight, burden, bête noir, calamity, curse, despair, destruction, disaster, downfall, fatal attraction, misery, nuisance, pest, plague, poison, ruin, ruination, scourge, torment, trial, trouble, undoing, venom, woe |
Antonyms: |
advantage, blessing, fortune, good luck |