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| Main Entry: | ache |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sore feeling; dull pain |
| Synonyms: | anguish, hurt, misery, pang, spasm, suffering, throb, throe, twinge, pounding, smarting, soreness, throbbing |
| Notes: | a pain is something that hurts; an ache is a prolonged dull pain |
| Antonyms: | comfort, ease, health, relief |
| Main Entry: | ache |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feeling soreness or dull pain, often physical |
| Synonyms: | hurt, pain, pound, smart, suffer, throb, twinge, be sore |
| Main Entry: | ailment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mild sickness |
| Synonyms: | ache, bug, complaint, condition, disease, disorder, dose*, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, syndrome, flu |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | commiserate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | listen to woes of another |
| Synonyms: | ache, compassionate, condole, console, feel, pity, sympathize, feel for, have mercy, share sorrow |
| Antonyms: | be indifferent, turn away |
| Main Entry: | cramp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muscle spasm |
| Synonyms: | ache, confinement, contraction, convulsion, crick, hindrance, impediment, kink, obstruction, pain, pang, restriction, stiffness, stitch, stricture, twinge, charley horse, circumscription, constipation, shooting pain |
| Main Entry: | crick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muscle spasm |
| Synonyms: | ache, convulsion, cramp, jarring, kink, pain, stitch, twinge, wrench, charley horse |
| Main Entry: | discomfort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irritation, pain |
| Synonyms: | ache, annoyance, discomfiture, displeasure, disquiet, distress, embarrassment, hardship, hurt, malaise, nuisance, trouble, uneasiness, unpleasantness, upset, vexation, discomposure, inquietude, soreness |
| Antonyms: | comfort, ease, easiness, pleasure, relief |
| Main Entry: | disease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ailment, affliction |
| Synonyms: | ache, affection, attack, blight, breakdown, bug*, cancer, canker, collapse, complaint, condition, contagion, contamination, debility, decrepitude, defect, disorder, distemper, endemic, epidemic, feebleness, fever, fit, hemorrhage, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, inflammation, malady, misery, plague, seizure, sickness, spell, stroke, syndrome, temperature, upset, virus, visitation, convulsions, flu, ill health, pathosis, sickliness, unhealthiness, unsoundness |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hanker after/hanker for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire strongly |
| Synonyms: | ache, covet, crave, hunger, itch, long, lust, pine, sigh, thirst, want, wish, yearn, yen, partial to |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate |
| Main Entry: | hankering |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong desire |
| Synonyms: | ache, craving, hunger, itch*, longing, thirst, urge, want, weakness, wish, yearning, yen, druthers, fire in belly, munchies, pining |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hunger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite for food, other desire |
| Synonyms: | ache, bottomless pit*, craving, desire, emptiness, famine, greed, longing, lust, mania, starvation, sweet tooth*, vacancy, void, voracity, want, yearning, yen, a stomach for, appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, esurience, eyes for, famishment, gluttony, greediness, hungriness, munchies, ravenousness |
| Antonyms: | satisfaction, satiation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hurt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury; damage |
| Synonyms: | ache, blow, bruise, chop, detriment, disadvantage, disaster, discomfort, disservice, distress, down, gash, harm, ill, loss, mark, mischief, misfortune, nick, ouch, outrage, pain, pang, persecution, prejudice, ruin, scratch, sore, suffering, wound, wrong, black and blue, boo-boo, ill-treatment, soreness |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, cure, healing, help, remedy |
| Main Entry: | long |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire, crave |
| Synonyms: | ache, aim, aspire, covet, hanker, hunger, itch, lust, miss, pine, sigh, thirst, want, wish, yearn, dream of, have a yen for, spoil for, suspire |
| Antonyms: | despise, dislike, hate |
| Main Entry: | lust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire strongly |
| Synonyms: | ache, covet, crave, hanker, itch, long, need, pine, thirst, want, wish, yearn, yen, be consumed with desire, be hot for, hunger for |
| Antonyms: | dislike, be chaste, be pure |
| Main Entry: | malady |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease |
| Synonyms: | ache, affection, affliction, ailment, attack, blight, bug*, cancer, complaint, condition, contagion, debility, disability, disorder, distemper, epidemic, fever, illness, infection, infirmity, inflammation, plague, sickness, syndrome, virus, flu, ill health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pout, be dejected |
| Synonyms: | ache, be apathetic, be down in the mouth, be gloomy, be in a funk, bleed*, brood, chafe, despair, despond, droop, eat one's heart out, fret, grieve, grumble, grump, idle, lament, languish, lose heart, moon, pine, pine away, regret, repine, sink, stew over, sulk, sweat over, waste time*, wear a long face, yearn |
| Antonyms: | be elated, be happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mourn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be sad over loss |
| Synonyms: | ache, agonize, anguish, bemoan, bewail, bleed, blubber, carry on, complain, cry, deplore, fret, grieve, hurt, keen, lament, languish, miss, moan, pine, regret, repine, rue, sigh, sob, sorrow, suffer, wail, weep, yearn, be brokenhearted, be sad, long for, take it hard, wear black, wring hands |
| Antonyms: | be happy, be joyful |
| Main Entry: | pain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, trouble |
| Synonyms: | ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, anguish, annoy, bite, chafe, chasten, constrain, convulse, discomfort, disquiet, distress, exasperate, gall, grieve, gripe, harass, harm, hurt, inflame, injure, irk, irritate, nick, prick, punish, rack, rile, sadden, smart, sting, strain, stress, suffer, throb, tingle, torment, torture, upset, vex, worry, wound, cut to the quick, excruciate, harrow, hit where one lives |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, assuage, help, please |
| Main Entry: | pine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | long for |
| Synonyms: | ache, agonize, brood, covet, crave, desire, dream, fret, grieve, hanker, mope*, mourn, sigh, want, wish, yearn, carry a torch, languish for, lust after, spoil for, thirst for, yen for |
| Antonyms: | despise, dislike, hate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pity |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feel sorry for; spare |
| Synonyms: | ache*, be sorry for, be sympathetic, bleed for, comfort, commiserate, condole, console, feel for, feel with, forgive, give quarter, grant amnesty, grieve with, have compassion, have mercy on, identify with, lament with, pardon, put out of one's misery, relent, reprieve, show forgiveness, show sympathy, solace, soothe, sympathize, take pity on, understand, weep for |
| Antonyms: | disdain, scorn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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