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#828. Pain. -- N. mental suffering, pain, dolor; suffering,
sufferance; ache, smart &c. (physical pain) 378; passion.
displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet;
malaise; inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit; taking; discontent &c.
832.
dejection &c. 837; weariness &c. 841; anhedonia.
annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation; plague, bore;
bother, botheration; stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre;
mauvais quart d'heur.
care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal,
shock, blow, cark, dole, fret, burden, load.
concern, grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness,
heartache; carking cares; heavy heart, aching heart, bleeding heart, broken
heart; heavy affliction, gnawing grief.
unhappiness, infelicity, misery, tribulation, wretchedness,
desolation; despair &c. 859; extremity, prostration, depth of misery.
nightmare, ephialtes, incubus.
pang, anguish, agony; torture, torment; purgatory &c. (hell) 982.
hell upon earth; iron age, reign of terror; slough of depond &c.
(adversity) 735; peck of troubles; "ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]
&c. (evil) 619; miseries of human life; "unkindest cut of all" [Julius
Caesar].
sufferer, victim, prey, martyr, object of compassion, wretch, shorn
lamb.
V. feel pain, suffer pain, experience pain, unergo pain, bear pain,
endure pain &c. n., smart, ache &c. (physical pain) 378; suffer, bleed,
ail; be the victim of.
labor under afflictions; bear the cross; quaff the bitter cup, have a
bad time of it; fall on evil days &c. (adversity) 735; go hard with, come
to grief, fall a sacrifice to, drain the cup of misery to the dregs, "sup
full of horrors" [Macbeth].
sit on thorns, be on pins and needles, wince, fret, chafe, worry
oneself, be in a taking, fret and fume; take on, take to heart; cark.
grieve; mourn &c. (lament) 839; yearn, repine, pine, droop, languish,
sink; give way; despair &c. 859; break one's heart; weigh upon the heart
&c. (inflict pain) 830.
Adj. in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain &c. n.; suffering &c.
v.; pained, afflicted, worried, displeased &c. 830; aching, griped, sore
&c. (physical pain) 378; on the rack, in limbo; between hawk and buzzard.
uncomfortable, uneasy; ill at ease; in a taking, in a way; disturbed;
discontented &c. 832; out of humor &c. 901a; weary &c. 841.
heavy laden, stricken, crushed, a prey to, victimized, ill-used.
unfortunate &c. (hapless) 735; to be pitied, doomed, devoted,
accursed, undone, lost, stranded; fey.
unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone;
cheerless &c. (dejected) 837; careworn.
concerned, sorry; sorrowing, sorrowful; cut up, chagrined, horrified,
horror-stricken; in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief &c. n.; in
tears &c. (lamenting) 839; steeped to the lips in misery; heart-stricken,
heart-broken, heart-scalded; broken-hearted; in despair &c. 859.
Phr. "the iron entered into our soul"; haeret lateri lethalis arundo
[Vergil]; one's heart bleeding; "down, thou climbing sorrow" [Lear]; "mirth
cannot move a soul in agony" [Love's Labor's Lost]; nessun maggior dolere
che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria; "sorrow's crown of sorrow is
remembering happier things" [Tennyson]; "the niobe of Nations" [Byron].

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#829. [Capability of giving pleasure; cause or source of pleasure.]
Pleasurableness. -- N. pleasurableness, pleasantness, agreeableness &c.
adj.; pleasure giving, jucundity, delectability; amusement &c. 840.
attraction &c. (motive) 615; attractiveness, attractability;
invitingness &c. adj.; harm, fascination, enchantment, witchery, seduction,
winning ways, amenity, amiability; winsomeness.
loveliness &c. (beauty) 845; sunny side, bright side; sweets &c.
(sugar) 396; goodness &c. 648; manna in the wilderness, land flowing with
milk and honey; bittersweet; fair weather.
treat; regale &c. (physical pleasure) 377; dainty; titbit, tidbit;
nuts, sauce piquante.
V. cause pleasure, produce pleasure, create pleasure, give pleasure,
afford pleasure, procure pleasure, offer pleasure, present pleasure, yield
pleasure &c. 827.
please, charm, delight, becharm, imparadise; gladden &c. (make
cheerful) 836; take, captivate, fascinate; enchant, entrance, enrapture,
transport, bewitch; enravish.
bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire; &c. 865; slake, satiate,
quench; indulge, humor, flatter, tickle; tickle the palate &c. (savory)
394; regale, refresh; enliven; treat; amuse &c. 840; take one's fancy,
tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy; meet one's wishes; win the heart,
gladden the heart, rejoice the heart, warm the cockles of the heart; do
one's heart good.
attract, allure &c. (move) 615; stimulate &c. (excite) 824; interest.
make things pleasant, popularize, gild the pill, sweeten.
Adj. causing pleasure &c. v.; laetificant; pleasure-giving, pleasing,
pleasant, pleasurable; agreeable; grateful, gratifying; leef|, lief,
acceptable; welcome, welcome as the roses in May; welcomed; favorite; to
one's taste, to one's mind, to one's liking; satisfactory &c. (good) 648.
refreshing; comfortable; cordial; genial; glad, gladsome; sweet,
delectable, nice, dainty; delicate, delicious; dulcet; luscious &c. 396;
palatable &c. 394; luxurious, voluptuous; sensual &c. 377.
attractive &c. 615; inviting, prepossessing, engaging; winning,
winsome; taking, fascinating, captivating, killing; seducing, seductive;
heart-robbing, alluring, enticing; appetizing &c. (exciting) 824; cheering
&c. 836; bewitching; enchanting, entrancing, enravishing.
charming; delightful, felicitous, exquisite; lovely &c. (beautiful)
845; ravishing, rapturous; heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic; beatic;
beatific; seraphic; empyrean; elysian &c. (heavenly) 981.
palmy, halcyon, Saturnian.
Phr. decies repetita placebit; "charms strike the sight but merit wins
the soul" [Pope]; "sweetness and light" [Swift].

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#830. [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain].
Painfulness. -- N. painfulness &c. adj.; trouble, care &c. (pain) 828;
trial; affliction, infliction; blow, stroke, burden, load, curse; bitter
pill, bitter draught; waters of bitterness.
annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification, sickener;
bore, bother, pother, hot water, "sea of troubles" [Hamlet], hornet's nest,
plague, pest.
cancer, ulcer, sting, thorn; canker &c. (bane) 663; scorpion &c. (evil
doer) 913; dagger &c. (arms) 727; scourge &c. (instrument of punishment)
975; carking care, canker worm of care.
mishap, misfortune &c. (adversity) 735; desagrement, esclandre, rub.
source of irritation, source of annoyance; wound, sore subject,
skeleton in the closet; thorn in the flesh, thorn in one's side; where the
shoe pinches, gall and wormwood.
sorry sight, heavy news, provocation; affront &c. 929; "head and front
of one's offending" [Othello].
infestation, molestation; malignity &c. (malevolence) 907.
V. cause pain, occasion pain, give pain, bring pain, induce pain,
produce pain, create pain, inflict pain &c. 828; pain, hurt, wound.
pinch, prick, gripe &c. (physical pain) 378; pierce, lancinate, cut.
hurt the feelings, wound the feelings, grate upon the feelings, jar
upon the feelings; wring the heart, pierce the heart, lacerate the heart,
break the heart, rend the heart; make the heart bleed; tear the heart
strings, rend the heart strings; draw tears from the eyes.
sadden; make unhappy &c. 828; plunge into sorrow, grieve, fash,
afflict, distress; cut up, cut to the heart.
displease, annoy, incommode, discompose, trouble, disquiet; faze,
feaze, feeze (U.S.); disturb, cross, perplex, molest, tease, tire, irk,
vex, mortify, wherret|, worry, plague, bother, pester, bore, pother,
harass, harry, badger, heckle, bait, beset, infest, persecute, importune.
wring, harrow, torment, torture; bullyrag; put to the rack, put to the
question; break on the wheel, rack, scarify; cruciate, crucify; convulse,
agonize; barb the dart; plant a dagger in the breast, plant a thorn in
one's side.
irritate, provoke, sting, nettle, try the patience, pique, fret, rile,
tweak the nose, chafe, gall; sting to the quick, wound to the quick, cut to
the quick; aggrieve, affront, enchafe, enrage, ruffle, sour the temper;
give offense &c. (resentment) 900.
maltreat, bite, snap at, assail; smite &c. (punish) 972.
sicken, disgust, revolt, nauseate, disenchant, repel, offend, shock,
stink in the nostrils; go against the stomach, turn the stomach; make one
sick, set the teeth on edge, go against the grain, grate on the ear; stick
in one's throat, stick in one's gizzard; rankle, gnaw, corrode, horrify,
appal, appall, freeze the blood; make the flesh creep, make the hair stand
on end; make the blood curdle, make the blood run cold; make one shudder.
haunt the memory; weigh on the heart, prey on the heart, weigh on the
mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, prey on the spirits; bring
one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; add a nail to one's coffin.
Adj. causing pain, hurting &c. v.; hurtful &c. (bad) 649; painful;
dolorific, dolorous; unpleasant; unpleasing, displeasing; disagreeable,
unpalatable, bitter, distasteful; uninviting; unwelcome; undesirable,
undesired; obnoxious; unacceptable, unpopular, thankless.
unsatisfactory, untoward, unlucky, uncomfortable.
distressing; afflicting, afflictive; joyless, cheerless, comfortless;
dismal, disheartening; depressing, depressive; dreary, melancholy,
griveous, piteous; woeful, rueful, mornful, deplorable, pitiable,
lamentable; sad, affecting, touching, pathetic.
irritating, provoking, stinging, annoying, aggravating, mortifying,
galling; unaccommodating, invidious, vexatious; troublesome, tiresome,
irksome, wearisome; plaguing, plaguy; awkward.
importunate; teasing, pestering, bothering, harassing, worrying,
tormenting, carking.
intolerable, insufferable, insupportable; unbearable, unendurable;
past bearing; not to be borne, not to be endured; more than flesh and blood
can bear; enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to
make a parson swear.
shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing; dreadful, fearful,
frightful; thrilling, tremendous, dire; heart-breaking, heart-rending,
heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heart-sickening; harrowing, rending.
odious, hateful, execrable, repulsive, repellent, abhorrent; horrid,
horrible, horrific, horrifying; offensive.
nauseous, nauseating; disgusting, sickening, revolting; nasty;
loathsome, loathful; fulsome; vile &c. (bad) 649; hideous &c. 846.
sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting,
caustic; cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating, searching,
grinding, grating, agonizing; envenomed; catheretic, pyrotic.
ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, tragical; desolating, withering;
burdensome, onerous, oppressive; cumbrous, cumbersome.
Adv. painfully &c. adj;; with pain &c. 828; deuced.
Int. hinc illae lachrymae!
Phr. surgit amari aliquid; the place being too hot to hold one; the
iron entering into the soul; "he jests at scars that never felt a wound"
[Romeo and Juliet]; "I must be cruel only to be kind" [Hamlet]; "what deep
wounds ever closed without a scar?" [Byron].

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#831. Content. -- N. content, contentment, contentedness; complacency,
satisfaction, entire satisfaction, ease, heart's ease, peace of mind;
serenity &c. 826; cheerfulness &c. 836; ray of comfort; comfort &c. (well-
being) 827.
reconciliation; resignation &c. (patience) 826.
waiter on Providence.
V. be content &c. adj.; rest satisfied, rest and be thankful; take the
good the gods provide, let well alone, feel oneself at home, hug oneself,
lay the flattering unction to one's soul.
take up with, take in good part; assent &c. 488; be reconciled to,
make one's peace with; get over it; take heart, take comfort; put up with
&c. (bear) 826.
render content &c. adj.; set at ease, comfort; set one's heart at
ease, set one's mind at ease, set one's heart at rest, set one's mind at
rest; speak peace; conciliate, reconcile, win over, propitiate, disarm,
beguile; content, satisfy; gratify &c. 829.
be tolerated &c. 826; go down, go down with; do.
Adj. content, contented; satisfied &c. v.; at ease, at one's ease, at
home; with the mind at ease, sans souci, sine cura, easygoing, not
particular; conciliatory; unrepining, of good comfort; resigned &c.
(patient) 826; cheerful &c. 836.
unafflicted, unvexed, unmolested, unplagued; serene &c. 826; at rest,
snug, comfortable; in one's element.
satisfactory, tolerable.
Adv. to one's heart's content; a la bonne heure; all for the best.
Int. amen &c. (assent) 488; very well, all the better, so much the
better, well and good; it will do, that will do; it cannot be helped.
Phr. nothing comes amiss.
"a heart with room for every joy" [Bailey]; ich habe genossen das
irdische Gluck ich habe gelebt und geliebet [Schiller]; "nor cast one
longing lingering look behind" [Gray]; "shut up in measureless content"
[Macbeth]; "sweet are the thoughts that savor of content" [R. Greene];
"their wants but few their wishes all confined" [Goldsmith]; might as well
relax and enjoy it.

#832. Discontent. -- N. discontent, discontentment; dissatisfaction;
dissent &c. 489.
disappointment, mortification; cold comfort; regret &c. 833; repining,
taking on &c. v.; heart-burning, heart-grief; querulousness &c.
(lamentation) 839; hypercriticism.
inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness.
malcontent, grumbler, growler, croaker, laudator temporis acti;
censurer, complainer, fault-finder, murmerer.
cave of Adullam, indignation meeting, "winter of our discontent"
[Henry VI].
V. be discontented &c. adj.; quarrel with one's bread and butter;
repine; regret &c. 833; wish one at the bottom of the Red Sea; take on,
take to heart; shrug the shoulders; make a wry face, pull a long face; knit
one's brows; look blue, look black, look black as thunder, look blank, look
glum.
take in bad part, take ill; fret, chafe, make a piece of work;
grumble, croak; lament &c. 839.
cause discontent &c. n.; dissatisfy, disappoint, mortify, put out,
disconcert; cut up; dishearten.
Adj. discontented; dissatisfied &c. v.; unsatisfied, ungratified;
dissident; dissentient &c. 489; malcontent, exigent, exacting,
hypercritical.
repining &c. v.; regretful &c. 833; down in the mouth &c. (dejected)
837.
in high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad humor;
glum, sulky; sour as a crab; soured, sore; out of humor, out of temper.
disappointing &c. v.; unsatisfactory.
Int. so much the worse!
Phr. that will never do, it will never do; curtae nescio quid semper
abest rei [Horace]; ne Jupiter Quidem omnibus placet; "poor in abundance,
famished at a feast" [Young].

#833. Regret. -- N. regret, repining; homesickness, nostalgia; maldu
pays, maladie; lamentation &c... 839; penitence &c. 950.
bitterness, heartburning.
laudator temporis acti &c. (discontent) 832.
V. regret, deplore; bewail &c. (lament) 839; repine, cast a longing
lingering look behind; rue, rue the day; repent &c. 950; infandum renovare
dolorem.
prey on the mind, weigh on the mind, have a weight on the mind; leave
an aching void.
Adj. regretting &c. v.; regretful; homesick.
regretted &c. v.; much to be regretted, regrettable; lamentable &c.
(bad) 649.
Int. what a pity! hang it!
Phr. 'tis pity, 'tis too true; "sig'd and look'd and sigh'd again"
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#834. Relief. -- N. relief; deliverance; refreshment &c. 689;
easement, softening, alleviation, mitigation, palliation, soothing,
lullaby.
solace, consolation, comfort, encouragement.
lenitive, restorative &c. (remedy) 662; cushion &c. 215; crumb of
comfort, balm in Gilead.
V. relieve, ease, alleviate, mitigate, palliate, soothe; salve;
soften, soften down; foment, stupe, poultice; assuage, allay.
cheer, comfort, console; enliven; encourage, bear up, pat on the back,
give comfort, set at ease; gladden the heart, cheer the heart; inspirit,
invigorate.
remedy; cure &c. (restore) 660; refresh; pour balm into, pour oil on.
smooth the ruffled brow of care, temper the wind to the shorn lamb,
lay the flattering unction to one's soul.
disburden &c. (free) 705; take off a load of care.
be relieved; breathe more freely, draw a long breath; take comfort;
dry the tears, dry the eyes, wipe the tears, wipe the eyes.
Adj. relieving &c. v.; consolatory, soothing; assuaging, assuasive;
balmy, balsamic; lenitive, palliative; anodyne &c. (remedial) 662; curative
&c. 660.
Phr. "here comes a man of comfort" [Measure for Measure].

#835. Aggravation. -- N. aggravation, heightening; exacerbation;
exasperation; overestimation &c. 482; exaggeration &c. 549.
V. aggravate, render worse, heighten, embitter, sour; exacerbate;
exasperate, envenom; enrage, provoke, tease.
add fuel to the fire, add fuel to the flame; fan the flame &c.
(excite) 824; go from bad to worse &c. (deteriorate) 659.
Adj. aggravated &c. v.; worse, unrelieved; aggravable; aggravating &c.
v.
Adv. out of the frying pan into the fire, from bad to worse, worse and
worse.
Int. so much the worse!

#836. Cheerfulness. -- N. cheerfulness &c. adj.; geniality, gayety,
l'allegro, cheer, good humor, spirits; high spirits, animal spirits, flow
of spirits; glee, high glee, light heart; sunshine of the mind, sunshine of
the breast; gaiete de coeur, bon naturel.
liveliness &c. adj.; life, alacrity, vivacity, animation, allegresse;
jocundity, joviality, jollity; levity; jocularity &c. (wit) 842.
mirth, merriment, hilarity, exhilaration; laughter &c. 838;
merrymaking &c. (amusement) 840; heyday, rejoicing &c. 838; marriage bell.
nepenthe, Euphrosyne.
optimism &c. (hopefulness) 858; self complacency; hedonics, hedonism.
V. be cheerful &c. adj.; have the mind at ease, smile, put a good face
upon, keep up one's spirits; view the bright side of the picture, view
things en couleur de rose; ridentem dicere virum, cheer up, brighten up,
light up, bear up; chirp, take heart, cast away care, drive dull care away,
perk up.
keep a stiff upper lip.
rejoice &c. 838; carol, chirrup, lilt; frisk, rollick, give a loose to
mirth.
cheer, enliven, elate, exhilarate, gladden, inspirit, animate, raise
the spirits, inspire; perk up; put in good humor; cheer the heart, rejoice
the heart; delight &c. (give pleasure) 829.
Adj. cheerful; happy &c. 827; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling;
blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper [U.S.]; in high
spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as
a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant,
debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic;
riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated,
vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of
spirit; all alive.
sunny, palmy; hopeful &c. 858.
merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage bell; joyful,
joyous, jocund, jovial; jolly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy; blithesome;
gleeful, gleesome; hilarious, rattling.
winsome, bonny, hearty, buxom.
playful, playsome; folatre, playful as a kitten, tricksy, frisky,
frolicsome; gamesome; jocose, jocular, waggish; mirth loving, laughter-
loving; mirthful, rollicking.
elate, elated; exulting, jubilant, flushed; rejoicing &c. 838; cock-a-
hoop.
cheering, inspiriting, exhilarating; cardiac, cardiacal; pleasing &c.
829; palmy.
Adv. cheerfully &c. adj.
Int. never say die! come! cheer up! hurrah! &c. 838; "hence loathed
melancholy!" begone dull care! away with melancholy!
Phr. "a merry heart goes all the day" [A winter's Tale]; "as merry as
the day is long" [Much Ado]; ride si sapis [Martial].

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#837. Dejection. -- N. dejection; dejectedness &c. adj.; depression,
prosternation|; lowness of spirits, depression of spirits; weight on the
spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits; low spirits, bad
spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits; heart sinking; heaviness of
heart, failure of heart.
heaviness &c. adj.; infestivity, gloom; weariness &c. 841; taedium
vitae, disgust of life; mal du pays &c. (regret) 833; anhedonia.
melancholy; sadness &c. adj.; il penseroso, melancholia, dismals,
blues, lachrymals, mumps, dumps, blue devils, doldrums; vapors, megrims,
spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis, pessimism; la maladie sans maladie;
despondency, slough of Despond; disconsolateness &c. adj.; hope deferred,
blank despondency; voiceless woe.
prostration of soul; broken heart; despair &c. 859; cave of despair,
cave of Trophonius
demureness &c. adj.; gravity, solemnity; long face, grave face.
hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos, malade
imaginaire, medecin tant pis; croaker, pessimist; mope, mopus.
[Cause of dejection] affliction &c. 830; sorry sight; memento mori;
damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter.
V. be dejected &c. adj.; grieve; mourn &c. (lament) 839; take on, give
way, lose heart, despond, droop, sink.
lower, look downcast, frown, pout; hang down the head; pull a long
face, make a long face; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; grin a
ghastly smile; look blue, look like a drowned man; lay to heart, take to
heart.
mope, brood over; fret; sulk; pine, pine away; yearn; repine &c.
(regret) 833; despair &c. 859.
refrain from laughter, keep one's countenance; be grave, look grave
&c. adj.; repress a smile.
depress; discourage, dishearten; dispirit; damp, dull, deject, lower,
sink, dash, knock down, unman, prostrate, break one's heart; frown upon;
cast a gloom, cast a shade on; sadden; damp one's hopes, dash one's hopes,
wither one's hopes; weigh on the mind, lie heavy on the mind, prey on the
mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the spirits, prey on the spirits;
damp the spirits, depress the spirits.
Adj. cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery; unlively;
unhappy &c. 828; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste, cluded,
murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable,
dreadful.
dreary, flat; dull, dull as a beetle, dull as ditchwater; depressing
&c. v.
"melancholy as a gib cat"; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to
melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one;s luck;
heavy-hearted; in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in
doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping;
moody, glum; sulky &c. (discontented) 832; out of sorts, out of humor, out
of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup
too low; weary &c. 841; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen,
chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen.
sad, pensive, penseroso, tristful; dolesome, doleful; woebegone;
lachrymose, in tears, melancholic, hypped, hypohondriacal, bilious,
jaundiced, atrabilious, saturnine, splenetic; lackadaisical.
serious, sedate, staid, stayed; grave as a judge, grave as an
undertaker, grave as a mustard pot; sober, solemn, demure; grim; grim-
faced, grim-visaged; rueful, wan, long-faced.
disconsolate; unconsolable, inconsolable; forlorn, comfortless,
desolate, desole, sick at heart; soul sick, heart sick; au desespoir; in
despair &c. 859; lost.
overcome; broken down, borne down, bowed down; heartstricken &c
(mental suffering) 828; cut up, dashed, sunk; unnerved, unmanned; down
fallen, downtrodden; broken-hearted; careworn.
Adv. with a long face, with tears in one's eyes; sadly &c. adj.
Phr. the countenance falling; the heart failing, the heart sinking
within one; "a plague of sighing and grief" [Henry IV]; thick-ey'd musing
and curs'd melancholy" [Henry IV]; " the sickening pang of hope deferred"
[Scott].

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#838. [Expression of pleasure.] Rejoicing. -- N. rejoicing,
exultation, triumph, jubilation, heyday, flush, revelling; merrymaking &c.
(amusement) 840; jubilee &c. (celebration) 883; paean, Te Deum &c.
(thanksgiving) 990; congratulation &c. 896.
smile, simper, smirk, grin; broad grin, sardonic grin.
laughter (amusement) 840.
risibility; derision &c. 856.
Momus; Democritus the Abderite; rollicker.
V. rejoice, thank one's stars, bless one's stars; congratulate
oneself, hug oneself; rub one's hands, clap one's hands; smack the lips,
fling up one's cap; dance, skip; sing, carol, cirrup, chirp; hurrah; cry
for joy, leap with joy; exult &c. (boast) 884; triumph; hold jubilee &c.
(celebrate) 883; make merry &c. (sport) 840.
laugh, raise laughter &c. (amuse) 840.
Adj. rejoicing &c. v.; jubilant, exultant, triumphant; flushed,
elated.
laughable &c. (ludicrous) 853.
Int. hurrah! Huzza! aha! hail! tolderolloll! Heaven be praised! io
triumphe! tant mieux! so much the better.
Phr. the heart leaping with joy; ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de
rire; "Laughter holding both his sides" [Milton]; le roi est mort, vive le
roi; "with his eyes in flood with laughter" [Cymbeline].

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