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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very upsetting |
| Synonyms: | acid, afflictive, aggravating, annoying, bitter, bothersome, distasteful, exasperating, grievous, harassing, humiliating, irksome, irritating, nettlesome, painful, plaguing, provoking, rankling, unpalatable, vexatious, vexing |
| Antonyms: | cheering, comforting, pleasing, satisfying, soothing, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | gall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rub raw |
| Synonyms: | abrade, bark, burn, chafe, corrode, erode, excoriate, file, fray, frazzle, fret, grate, graze, irritate, scrape, scratch, scuff, skin, wear |
| Main Entry: | abrasive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritating in manner |
| Synonyms: | annoying, biting, caustic, cutting, galling, hard to take, hateful, hurtful, nasty, rough, rubbing the wrong way, sharp, spiky, unpleasant |
| Antonyms: | likeable, pleasant, pleasing |
| Main Entry: | bitter |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful, distressing |
| Synonyms: | afflictive, annoying, bad, brutal, calamitous, cruel, dire, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, disturbing, galling, grievous, hard, harsh, heartbreaking, hurtful, inclement, intemperate, intense, merciless, offensive, poignant, provoking, rigorous, rugged, ruthless, savage, severe, sharp, stinging, unpalatable, unpleasant, vexatious, woeful |
| Antonyms: | good, helping, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | difficult |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard on someone; hard to do |
| Synonyms: | Gargantuan, Herculean, ambitious, arduous, backbreaker, bothersome, burdensome, challenging, crucial, demanding, difficile, easier said than done, effortful, exacting, formidable, galling, hard-won, heavy, immense, intricate, irritating, labored, laborious, no picnic, not easy, onerous, operose, painful, problem, problematic, prohibitive, rigid, severe, stiff, strenuous, titanic, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, unyielding, uphill, upstream, wearisome |
| Antonyms: | calm, easy, free, manageable, plain, simple, uncomplicated |
| Main Entry: | distasteful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | repulsive, unpleasant |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, afflictive, bitter, detestable, disagreeable, dislikable, displeasing, flat, flavorless, galling, grievous, grody, gross*, hateful, icky, insipid, loathsome, nauseous, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, painful, repellent, repugnant, savorless, tasteless, unappetizing, undesirable, uninviting, unlikable, unpalatable, unsavory, yicky, yucky |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, delectable, delicious, palatable, pleasant, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | onerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult; requiring hard labor |
| Synonyms: | arduous, austere, backbreaking, burdensome, crushing, cumbersome, demanding, difficult, distressing, embittering, exacting, excessive, exhausting, exigent, fatiguing, formidable, galling, grave, grinding, grueling, hard*, harsh, headache, heavy*, intolerable, irksome, laborious, merciless, oppressive, overpowering, overtaxing, painful, plodding, ponderous, pressing, responsible, rigorous, serious, severe, strenuous, taxing, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, vexatious, weighty |
| Antonyms: | common, easy, light, trivial |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | provocative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aggravating |
| Synonyms: | annoying, challenging, disturbing, exciting, galling, goading, heady, incensing, inciting, influential, inspirational, insulting, intoxicating, offensive, outrageous, provoking, pushing, spurring, stimulant, stimulating |
| Antonyms: | repressive, suppressive, unprovocative |
| Main Entry: | uncomfortable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful, rough |
| Synonyms: | afflictive, agonizing, annoying, awkward, bitter, cramped, difficult, disagreeable, distressing, dolorous, excruciating, galling, grievous, hard, harsh, ill-fitting, incommodious, irritating, thorny, torturing, troublesome, vexatious, wearisome |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, easy, painless |
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