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| Main Entry: | hurt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause physical pain; experience pain |
| Synonyms: | abuse, ache, afflict, ail, belt, bite, blemish, bruise, burn, cramp, cut, cut up, damage, disable, flail, flog, harm, impair, injure, kick, lacerate, lash, maltreat, mar, maul, mess up, nip, pierce, pinch, pommel, prick, pummel, punch, puncture, punish, rough up, shake up, slap, slug, smart, spank, spoil, squeeze, stab, sting, tear, throb, torment, torture, total, trouble, wax, whack, whip, wing, wound, wring, be sore, be tender, do violence, wrack up |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, assuage, cure, heal, help, relieve, remedy, soothe |
| Main Entry: | hurt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause mental pain |
| Synonyms: | abuse, afflict, aggrieve, annoy, burn, chafe, constrain, discomfit, discommode, displease, distress, faze, grieve, injure, lambaste, martyr, prejudice, punish, put down, put out, sadden, sting*, torment, torture, try, upset, vex, vitiate, wound, zing*, cut to the quick, excruciate, give no quarter, go for jugular, hit where one lives, lay a bad trip on, lean on, martyrize, thumb nose at, work over |
| Antonyms: | calm, placate, please, relieve, soothe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adversity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad luck, situation |
| Synonyms: | affliction, bummer*, calamity, can of worms*, catastrophe, clutch, contretemps, crunch*, difficulty, disaster, distress, downer*, drag*, evil eye*, hard knocks*, hardship, jam, jinx, kiss of death*, misery, misfortune, mishap, pain in the neck*, poison*, reverse, sorrow, suffering, trial, trouble, bad break, hard times, hurting, ill fortune, on the skids, the worst, tough luck |
| Antonyms: | aid, encouragement, favor, fortune, good luck, help, prosperity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | craving |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong desire |
| Synonyms: | appetite, hankering, hunger, itch*, longing, lust, need, passion, thirst, urge, yearning, yen*, appetition, hurting, munchies |
| Antonyms: | dislike, distaste, hate, indifference |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dejected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, blue |
| Synonyms: | abject, black, bleak, cheerless, crestfallen, despondent, disconsolate, discouraged, dismal, dispirited, doleful, down, down in the mouth*, downcast, downhearted, drooping, droopy, gloomy, glum, heavyhearted, low, low-spirited, melancholy, miserable, moody, morose, sad, spiritless, woebegone, wretched, all torn up, atrabilious, broody, bummed out, cast down, clouded, dampened, dashed, disheartened, down in the dumps, dragged, hurting, in the pits, mopey, mopish, sagging, shot down |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, encouraged, happy, joyous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disconsolate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | bad, black, blue, cheerless, cold, crestfallen, dark, dejected, desolate, despairing, destroyed, dispirited, distressed, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, dreary, forlorn, gloomy, grief-stricken, heartbroken, hopeless, inconsolable, low, melancholy, miserable, sad, somber, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful, wretched, comfortless, crushed, hurting, in pain, in the pits, ripped, torn-up |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, consoled, solaced, soothed |
| Main Entry: | grief-stricken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sad, sorrowful |
| Synonyms: | cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, distressed, down, heartbroken, heartsick, heavyhearted, inconsolable, melancholy, miserable, morose, overcome, troubled, unhappy, woebegone, anguished, devastated, hurting |
| 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: | hurtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, cruel |
| Synonyms: | bad, cutting, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, distressing, evil, harmful, malicious, mean, mischievous, nasty, nocuous, noxious, ominous, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, spiteful, unkind, aching, afflictive, hurting, upsetting, wounding |
| Antonyms: | assisting, harmless, helpful, helping, kind, nice, aiding, relieving |
| Main Entry: | impoverished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor, exhausted |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, barren, broke, clean, depleted, destitute, distressed, drained, empty, flat*, impecunious, indigent, insolvent, needy, penurious, poverty-stricken, reduced, ruined, spent, sterile, strapped, beggared, flat broke, have-not, hurting, necessitous, played out |
| Antonyms: | enriched, full, plentiful, rich |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lamentable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upsetting, miserable |
| Synonyms: | awful, bad, calamitous, deplorable, dire, dirty, distressing, doleful, dolorous, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, lousy, low, lugubrious, meager, mean, melancholy, mournful, pitiful, plaintive, poor, regretful, rotten, rueful, sad, sorrowful, stinking, tragic, unfavorable, unfortunate, unsatisfactory, woeful, wretched, afflictive, god-awful, hurting |
| Antonyms: | cheering, fortunate, good, lucky, satisfactory |
| Main Entry: | opprobrious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abusive, hateful |
| Synonyms: | contemptuous, damaging, defamatory, despicable, disparaging, humiliating, injurious, insolent, insulting, invective, malevolent, malign, malignant, notorious, offensive, pejorative, scandalous, scurrilous, spiteful, truculent, vile, vitriolic, vulgar, abasing, calumniatory, contumelious, debasing, defaming, denigrating, depreciative, derogative, despiteful, detractive, disgracing, dishonoring, hurting, injuring, libeling, maligning, offending, reproaching, reviling, shaming, vituperative |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, flattering, kind, nice, praising |
| Main Entry: | painful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically or mentally agonizing |
| Synonyms: | agonizing, arduous, awful, biting, burning, caustic, difficult, dire, disagreeable, distasteful, distressing, dreadful, excruciating, extreme, grievous, hard, harrowing, hurtful, inflamed, irritated, laborious, piercing, raw, sensitive, severe, sharp, sore, stinging, tedious, tender, terrible, troublesome, trying, uncomfortable, unpleasant, vexatious, aching, afflictive, extremely bad, hurting, saddening, smarting, throbbing, tormenting |
| Antonyms: | delightful, easy, pleasant, painless |
| Main Entry: | somber |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sad, depressing |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, blue*, cloudy, dark, dim, dingy, dire, dismal, doleful, down, drab, dreary, dull, dusky, earnest, funereal, gloomy, grave, grim, joyless, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, murky, no-nonsense, obscure, sedate, sepulchral, serious, shadowy, shady, sober, solemn, sourpuss, staid, tenebrous, weighty, caliginous, depressive, dispiriting, dragged, hurting |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sorrowful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very upset; grieving |
| Synonyms: | affecting, afflicted, dejected, depressed, disconsolate, distressing, doleful, grievous, heartbroken, heartrending, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, mournful, painful, piteous, plaintive, rueful, sad, sorry, tearful, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretched, dolent, full of sorrow, heavy-hearted, hurting, in mourning, in pain, in sorrow, ruthful, sick at heart, singing the blues, tear-jerking |
| Antonyms: | delighted, happy, joyful |
| Main Entry: | woebegone |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, troubled |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, blue*, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, dreary, forlorn, gloomy, grief-stricken, grim, hangdog*, low, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, woeful, wretched, bummed out, chapfallen, down-in-the-mouth, hurting, in pain, long-faced, shot down |
| Antonyms: | enthused, excited, happy, untroubled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wretched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | terrible, very bad |
| Synonyms: | abject, afflicted, base, calamitous, cheap, contemptible, dejected, deplorable, depressed, despicable, disconsolate, distressed, dolorous, down, down-and-out*, downcast, faulty, flimsy, forlorn, gloomy, hapless, hopeless, inferior, low, mean, melancholy, miserable, paltry, pathetic, pitiful, poor, shabby, shameful, sordid, sorrowful, sorry, spiritless, tragic, unfortunate, unhappy, vile, weak, woebegone, woeful, worthless, bummed, hurting, in the pits, low-down*, pitiable |
| Antonyms: | good, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | depressed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | discouraged |
| Synonyms: | bad, blue*, crestfallen, crummy*, dejected, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, dispirited, down, down in the mouth*, downcast, downhearted, fed up*, glum, grim, let down, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, melancholy, moody, morose, pessimistic, sad, sob story*, spiritless, unhappy, weeping, woebegone, bleeding, bummed out, cast-down, down and out, down in the dumps, dragged, hurting, in a blue funk, in pain, in the dumps, in the pits, in the toilet, low-down, on a downer, ripped, taken down, torn up |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, encouraged, happy, satisfied, comforted, unburdened |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | miserable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy, depressed |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, ailing, brokenhearted, crestfallen, dejected, desolate, despairing, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, discontented, distressed, doleful, dolorous, down, down in the mouth*, downcast, forlorn, gloomy, heartbroken, hopeless, hurt, ill, injured, melancholy, mournful, pained, pathetic, rueful, sad, sick, sickly, sorrowful, strained, suffering, tragic, troubled, woebegone, wounded, wretched, agonized, anguished, hurting, in pain, on a downer, pitiable, racked, ruthful, tormented, tortured |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, elated, happy, joyful, merry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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