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| 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: | sorrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme upset, grief |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, bad news, big trouble, blow, blues, care, catastrophe, dejection, depression, distress, dolor, grieving, hardship, heartache, heartbreak, lamenting, melancholy, misery, misfortune, mourning, pain, rain*, regret, remorse, repentance, rue, sadness, suffering, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, weeping, woe, worry, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | happiness, joy, relief |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tear/tears |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | droplets from eyes, often caused by emotion |
| Synonyms: | blubbering, crying, discharge, distress, drops, grieving, lachryma, lamentation, lamenting, moisture, mourning, pain, regret, sadness, sob, sob act, sobbing, sorrow, teardrop, wailing, water, waterworks, weep, weeping, weeps, whimpering, woe |
| Main Entry: | howl |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | long, painful cry |
| Synonyms: | bark, bawl, bay, bellow, blubber, clamor, groan, growl, hoot, keen, lament, moan, outcry, quest, roar, scream, shout, shriek, ululate, wail, weep, whimper, whine, yell, yelp, yip, yowl |
| Main Entry: | yell |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | loud communication |
| Synonyms: | bawl, bellow, call, cheer, complain, cry, holler*, hoot, howl, lament, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, shrill, squawk, squeal, ululate, vociferate, wail, weep, whoop, yap, yelp, yip |
| Antonyms: | whisper |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | sorrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Trophonian, bathed in tears, begrutten, blatant, curkling, dacryagogue, dissolved in tears, elegiac, epiphoric, flebile, illachrymable, in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes, in tears, lachrimose, lachrymal, lamenting, larmoyant, like Niobe all tears, mournful, mugient, plaintful, plaintive, querimonious, querulous, remugient, sorrowful, sorrowing, tearful, weeping, with moisture in one's eyes, with tears in one's eyes, with watery eyes
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| Main Entry: | cry |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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clamant, clamorous, conclamant, conjubilant, crying, gemebund, hinnible, hylactic, latrant, mugient, open, plangorous, remugient, stentorian, vagient, vociferous
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| Main Entry: | regret |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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contrite, homesick, lamentable, languorous, much to be regretted, oikotropic, regretful, regrettable, regretted, regretting
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| Concept: | Cry. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; specific sounds |
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-nouns
cry; voice (human); hubbub; bark (animal)., vociferation, outcry, hullabaloo, chorus, clamor, hue and cry, plaint; lungs; stentor.
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