| Main Entry: | ordeal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trouble, suffering |
Synonyms: |
affliction, agony, anguish, calamity, calvary, cross, crucible, difficulty, distress, nightmare, test, torment, torture, trial, tribulation, visitation |
Antonyms: |
happiness, pleasure |
| 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: | curse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune wished upon someone |
Synonyms: |
affliction, bane, burden, calamity, cancer, cross, disaster, evil, evil eye, hydra, jinx, ordeal, pestilence, plague, scourge, torment, tribulation, trouble, vexation, voodoo |
| Main Entry: | despair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression, hopelessness |
Synonyms: |
anguish, dashed hopes, dejection, desperation, despondency, discouragement, disheartenment, forlornness, gloom, melancholy, misery, ordeal, pain, sorrow, trial, tribulation, wretchedness |
Antonyms: |
cheer, cheerfulness, confidence, faith, happiness, hopefulness, joy, joyfulness, trust |
| Main Entry: | distress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pain, agony |
Synonyms: |
ache, affliction, anguish, anxiety, bad news, blues, care, concern, cross, dejection, desolation, disappointment, discomfort, disquietude, dolor, embarrassment, grief, headache, heartache, heartbreak, irritation, malaise, misery, mortification, ordeal, pang, perplexity, sadness, shame, sorrow, stew, suffering, throe, torment, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, twinge, unconsolability, unhappiness, vexation, visitation, woe, worriment, worry, wretchedness |
Antonyms: |
comfort, happiness, health, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happening, occurrence |
Synonyms: |
adventure, affair, encounter, episode, event, incident, ordeal, test, trial, trip |
| Main Entry: | hell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place of the condemned; bad situation |
Synonyms: |
Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, abyss, affliction, agony, anguish, blazes, bottomless pit, difficulty, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, grave, hell-fire, infernal regions, inferno, limbo, lower world, misery, nether world, nightmare, ordeal, pandemonium, perdition, pit, place of torment, purgatory, suffering, torment, trial, underworld, wretchedness |
Antonyms: |
heaven |
| Main Entry: | martyrdom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suffering endured for sake of a cause |
Synonyms: |
affliction, agonizing, agony, anguish, crucifixion, devotion, distress, mortification, ordeal, pain, persecution, sacrifice, self-immolation, self-sacrifice, torment, torture, unselfishness |
Antonyms: |
contentment, happiness, satisfaction |
| 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: | nightmare |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad dream or experience |
Synonyms: |
dream, fancy, fantasy, hallucination, horror, illusion, incubus, ordeal, phantasm, succubus, torment, trial, tribulation, vision |
Antonyms: |
daymare |