| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental suffering |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, bemoaning, bereavement, bewailing, care, dejection, deploring, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, disquiet, distress, dole, dolor, gloom, grievance, harassment, heartache, heartbreak, infelicity, lamentation, lamenting, malaise, melancholy, misery, mortification, mournfulness, mourning, pain, purgatory, regret, remorse, repining, rue, sadness, sorrow, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | delight, ecstasy, exhilaration, happiness |
| Main Entry: | anguish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severe upset or pain |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, distress, dole, dolor, grief, heartache, heartbreak, hurting, misery, pang, rue, sorrow, suffering, throe, torment, torture, woe, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | comfort, contentment, happiness, joy, joyfulness, solace |
| Main Entry: | bad news |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trouble |
| Synonyms: | bind, bother, concern, danger, deep trouble, difficulty, dilemma, dire straits, disappointment, distress, grief, headache, hindrance, hot water, inconvenience, mess, misfortune, nuisance, pain, predicament, problem, struggle, torment, woe |
| Main Entry: | bad time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agony |
| Synonyms: | going-over, grief, grilling, hard time, third degree, torture |
| Main Entry: | catastrophe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calamity; unhappy conclusion |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, alluvion, bad luck, bad news, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, contretemps, crash, culmination, curtains, debacle, denouement, desolation, devastation, disaster, emergency, end, failure, fatality, fiasco, finale, grief, hardship, havoc, ill, infliction, meltdown, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, scourge, stroke, termination, the worst, tragedy, trial, trouble, upshot, waterloo, wreck |
| Antonyms: | benefit, blessing, favor, good fortune, good luck, happiness, miracle, success, wonder |
| Main Entry: | desperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hopelessness |
| Synonyms: | agony, anguish, anxiety, concern, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, disconsolateness, distraction, distress, fear, gloom, grief, heartache, melancholy, misery, pain, pang, sorrow, torture, trouble, unhappiness, worry |
| Antonyms: | confidence, contentment, security |
| Main Entry: | disaster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accident, trouble |
| Synonyms: | act of God, adversity, affliction, bad luck, bad news, bale, bane, blight, blow, bust, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collapse, collision, crash, debacle, defeat, depression, emergency, exigency, failure, fall, fell stroke, fiasco, flood, flop, grief, hard luck, harm, hazard, holocaust, hot water, ill luck, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, reverse, rock, rough, ruin, ruination, setback, slip, stroke, the worst, tragedy, undoing, upset, washout, woe |
| Antonyms: | blessing, good fortune, good luck, miracle, prosperity, success, triumph, win, wonder |
| 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, perplexity, sadness, shame, sorrow, stew, suffering, throe, torment, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, twinge, unconsolability, unhappiness, vexation, visitation, woe, worriment, worry, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | comfort, happiness, health, pleasure |
| 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 |