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| Main Entry: | heartache |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anguish, sorrow |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, bitterness, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, distress, dolor, grief, heartbreak, heavy heart, misery, pang, remorse, sadness, suffering, torment, torture, broken heart, hurting |
| Main Entry: | anguish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severe upset or pain |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, distress, dole, dolor, grief, heartache, heartbreak, misery, pang, rue, sorrow, suffering, throe, torment, torture, woe, wretchedness, hurting |
| Antonyms: | comfort, contentment, happiness, joy, solace, joyfulness |
| Main Entry: | dolor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misery, anguish |
| Synonyms: | agony, distress, grief, heartache, heartbreak, passion, ruth, sadness, sorrow, suffering |
| Antonyms: | cheer, happiness, hopefulness |
| Main Entry: | grief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental suffering |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, bereavement, care, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, disquiet, distress, dole, dolor, gloom, grievance, harassment, heartache, heartbreak, lamenting, malaise, melancholy, misery, mortification, mourning, pain, purgatory, regret, remorse, rue, sadness, sorrow, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry, wretchedness, bemoaning, bewailing, deploring, infelicity, lamentation, mournfulness, repining |
| Antonyms: | delight, ecstasy, exhilaration, happiness |
| Main Entry: | heartbreak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental or emotional misery |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, bale, bitterness, care, desolation, despair, distress, grief, heartache, heavy heart*, pain, regret, remorse, rue, sorrow, suffering, torment, torture, woe, broken heart, heartsickness |
| Antonyms: | happiness, joy, love |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | loneliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | isolation |
| Synonyms: | alienation, desolation, heartache, seclusion, solitude, withdrawal, aloneness, forlornness, friendlessness, lonesomeness, remoteness, solitariness |
| Main Entry: | regret |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | upset over past action |
| Synonyms: | affliction, anguish, annoyance, apology, bitterness, care, compunction, concern, conscience, contrition, demur, disappointment, discomfort, dissatisfaction, dole, grief, heartache, heartbreak, misgiving, nostalgia, pang, penitence, qualm, remorse, repentance, scruple, sorrow, uneasiness, woe, worry, apologies, lamentation, regretfulness, ruefulness, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-disgust, self-reproach |
| Notes: | regret carries no explicit admission that one is responsible for an incident, while remorse implies a sense of guilty responsibility and a greater feeling of personal pain and anguish |
| Antonyms: | happiness, satisfaction, contentedness |
| Main Entry: | sadness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unhappiness, depression |
| Synonyms: | anguish, blue devils, blue funk, bummer, dejection, despondency, distress, dolor, downer*, dysphoria, funk, grief, heartache, heartbreak, heavy heart*, letdown, listlessness, melancholy, misery, mourning, poignancy, sorrow, tribulation, woe, blahs, bleakness, broken heart, cheerlessness, disconsolateness, dismals, dispiritedness, dolefulness, downcastness, forlornness, gloominess, grieving, hopelessness, moodiness, mopes, mournfulness, sorrowfulness, the blues, the dumps |
| Antonyms: | cheer, gladness, happiness, joy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sorrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme upset, grief |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, bad news*, blow, blues*, care, catastrophe, dejection, depression, distress, dolor, hardship, heartache, heartbreak, lamenting, melancholy, misery, misfortune, mourning, pain, rain*, regret, remorse, repentance, rue, sadness, suffering, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, weeping, woe, worry, wretchedness, big trouble, grieving |
| Antonyms: | happiness, joy, relief |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tribulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pain, unhappiness |
| Synonyms: | adversity, affliction, albatross*, bad luck*, blow*, bummer*, burden, care, crucible*, curse, difficulty, distress, double whammy, downer*, drag*, grief, headache*, heartache*, misery, misfortune, oppression, ordeal, persecution, rainy day, reverse, sorrow, suffering, trial, trouble, vexation, visitation, woe, worry, wretchedness, cross to bear, hard knock, hard time, wronging |
| Antonyms: | calm, comfort, happiness, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | woe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suffering |
| Synonyms: | adversity, affliction, agony, anguish, blues*, burden, calamity, care, cataclysm, catastrophe, curse, dejection, depression, disaster, distress, dole, drag, gloom, grief, hardship, headache*, heartache*, heartbreak, melancholy, misadventure, misery, misfortune, pain, rain*, regret, rue, sadness, sorrow, tragedy, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, wretchedness, bemoaning, deploring, grieving, lamentation |
| Antonyms: | happiness, joy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | worry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxiety, trouble |
| Synonyms: | anguish, annoyance, apprehension, bad news*, care, concern, disquiet, distress, disturbance, doubt, fear, headache*, heartache*, irritation, misery, misgiving, nag*, pain*, pest, plague, presentiment, problem, torment, torture, trial, uncertainty, uneasiness, vexation, woe, perplexity, worriment |
| Antonyms: | calmness, reassurance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heavy heart |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sad heart |
| Synonyms: | aching heart, bathos, bleeding heart, heartache, pathos, agony of mind, broken heart, heaviness of heart |
| Main Entry: | unhappiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sorrow |
| Synonyms: | gloom, grief, heartache, melancholy, misery, sadness, woe, gloominess, joylessness |
| Antonyms: | bliss, felicity, happiness, joyfulness, joyousness |
| Main Entry: | desperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hopelessness |
| Synonyms: | agony, anguish, anxiety, concern, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, distraction, distress, fear, gloom, grief, heartache, melancholy, misery, pain, pang, sorrow, torture, trouble, unhappiness, worry, disconsolateness |
| Antonyms: | confidence, contentment, security |
| 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, sadness, shame, sorrow, stew, suffering, throe, torment, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, twinge, unhappiness, vexation, visitation, woe, worry, wretchedness, perplexity, unconsolability, worriment |
| Antonyms: | comfort, happiness, health, pleasure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | misery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pain, mental or physical |
| Synonyms: | ache, agony, anguish, bad news*, blues*, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, distress, dolor, gloom, grief, hardship, headache, heartache, melancholy, pang, passion, sadness, sorrow, squalor, stitch, suffering, throe, torment, torture, twinge, unhappiness, woe, worry, wretchedness, anvil chorus, hurting, worriment |
| Antonyms: | cheer, delight, fun, gladness, happiness, joy, pleasure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trouble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | annoyance, worry |
| Synonyms: | agitation, anxiety, bad news*, bind, bother, commotion, concern, danger, difficulty, dilemma, dire straits, discontent, discord, disorder, disquiet, dissatisfaction, distress, disturbance, grief, hang-up*, heartache, hindrance, hot water, inconvenience, irritation, mess, misfortune, nuisance, pain, pest, pickle*, predicament, problem, puzzle, row, scrape, sorrow, spot, strain, stress, strife, struggle, suffering, task, torment, tribulation, tumult, unrest, vexation, woe |
| Antonyms: | contentment, happiness, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental suffering |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, anxiety, bitterness, despondency, distress, grief, heartache, hurt, malaise, martyrdom, misery, rack, sadness, shock, suffering, torment, torture, travail, tribulation, woe, worry, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | cheer, happiness, joy, pleasure, well-being |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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