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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression, sickness |
| Synonyms: | angst, anxiety, debility, decrepitude, despair, discomfort, disquiet, distress, doldrums, enervation, feebleness, illness, infirmity, infirmness, lassitude, melancholy, pain, sickliness, unease, uneasiness, unhealthiness, weakness |
| Antonyms: | good health, healthiness, well being |
| 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: | misfortune/mishap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad luck; disaster |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, annoyance, anxiety, bad break, bad news, blow*, burden, calamity, casuality, cataclysm, catastrophe, contretemps, cross, crunch, debacle, disadvantage, disappointment, discomfort, dole, failure, hard luck, hardship, harm, inconvenience, infelicity, loss, misadventure, mischance, misery, nuisance, reverse, rotten luck, setback, stroke of bad luck, tough luck, tragedy, trial, tribulation, trouble, unpleasantness, visitation, worry |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, fortune, good luck |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | misgiving |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncertainty |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, distrust, doubt, fear, foreboding, hesitation, mistrust, premonition, prenotion, presage, presentiment, qualm, reservation, scruple, suspicion, unbelief, unease, worry |
| Antonyms: | certainty, confidence, doubtlessness, sureness, trust |
| 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 |
| Notes: | a pain is something that hurts; an ache is a prolonged dull pain a pain is something that hurts as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder; a pane is a sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors |
| Antonyms: | cheer, happiness, joy, pleasure, well-being |
| Main Entry: | phobia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fear |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, aversion, avoidance, awe, detestation, disgust, dislike, distaste, dread, fear, hang-up, hatred, horror, irrationality, loathing, neurosis, obsession, repulsion, resentment, revulsion, terror, thing about, thing* |
| Antonyms: | liking, love |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | qualm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nagging doubt |
| Synonyms: | agitation, anxiety, apprehension, compunction, conscience, demur, disquiet, foreboding, hesitation, indecision, insecurity, misdoubt, misgiving, mistrust, nervousness, objection, pang, perturbation, presentiment, regret, reluctance, remonstrance, remorse, scruple, suspicion, twinge, uncertainty, unease, uneasiness |
| Antonyms: | approval, comfort, contentedness |
| Main Entry: | restlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | constant motion; discontent |
| Synonyms: | activity, agitation, ailment, ants, antsiness, anxiety, bustle, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, edginess, excitability, ferment, fitfulness, fretfulness, hurry, inconstancy, inquietude, insomnia, instability, jitters, jumpiness, movement, nervousness, restiveness, transience, turbulence, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, unsettledness, worriedness |
| Antonyms: | calm, contentedness, relaxation, restfulness |
| Main Entry: | scruple |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misgiving, doubt |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, caution, censor, compunction, conscience, demur, difficulty, faltering, hesitancy, hesitation, pause, perplexity, qualm, reconsideration, reluctance, reluctancy, second thought, squeamishness, superego, twinge, uneasiness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, negligence, unconcern |
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