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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pulsate, beat |
| Synonyms: | flutter, palpitate, pitpat, pound, pulse, resonate, thrill, thump, tingle, tremble, twitter, vibrate |
| Main Entry: | painful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically or mentally agonizing |
| Synonyms: | aching, afflictive, agonizing, arduous, awful, biting, burning, caustic, difficult, dire, disagreeable, distasteful, distressing, dreadful, excruciating, extreme, extremely bad, grievous, hard, harrowing, hurtful, hurting, inflamed, irritated, laborious, piercing, raw, saddening, sensitive, severe, sharp, smarting, sore, stinging, tedious, tender, terrible, throbbing, tormenting, troublesome, trying, uncomfortable, unpleasant, vexatious |
| Antonyms: | delightful, easy, painless, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | pulse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rhythm, beat |
| Synonyms: | beating, oscillation, pulsation, stroke, throb, throbbing, vibration |
| Notes: | a heartbeat is a single complete pulsation of the heart or a very short space of time, while a pulse is the rate at which the heart beats or the underlying feeling, emotions, or sentiments of a group of people |
| Main Entry: | resonant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vibrant in sound |
| Synonyms: | beating, booming, clangorous, consonant, deep, deep-toned, earsplitting, echoing, electrifying, enhanced, full, heightened, intensified, loud, mellow, noisy, orotund, plangent, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing, roaring, round, sonorant, sonorous, stentorian, strident, thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous |
| Antonyms: | faint, quiet |
| Main Entry: | vibration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shaking, quivering |
| Synonyms: | beating, fluctuation, judder, oscillation, pulsation, pulse, quake, quiver, resonance, reverberation, shake, shimmy, throb, throbbing, trembling, tremor, vacillation, wave, wavering |
| Antonyms: | stillness |
| Main Entry: | jumping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vaulting |
| Synonyms: | active, animated, beating, bouncing, bounding, buoyant, dynamic, hopping, hurdling, irregular, leaping, lively, pulsating, quaking, quivering, shaking, skipping, springing, throbbing, trembling, unsteady, vibrant |
| Main Entry: | aching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful |
| Synonyms: | achy, hurtful, hurting, nagging, raw, smarting, sore, stinging, tender, throbbing |
| Main Entry: | achy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful |
| Synonyms: | aching, hurtful, hurting, nagging, raw, smarting, sore, stinging, tender, throbbing |
| Main Entry: | nagging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful |
| Synonyms: | aching, achy, afflictive, agonizing, arduous, awful, biting, burning, caustic, difficult, dire, disagreeable, distasteful, distressing, dreadful, excruciating, extreme, extremely bad, grievous, hard, harrowing, hurtful, hurting, inflamed, irritated, laborious, piercing, raw, saddening, sensitive, severe, sharp, smarting, sore, stinging, tedious, tender, terrible, throbbing, tormenting, troublesome, trying, uncomfortable, unpleasant, vexatious |
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