happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified; happy as a clam at high
water [U.S.], happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long; thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus[Lat]; enjoying &c. v.; joyful &c. (in spirits) 836; hedonic[obs3].
in a blissful state, in paradise &c. 981, in raptures, in ecstasies,
in a transport of delight.
comfortable &c. (physical pleasure) 377; at ease; content &c. 831;
sans souci[Fr].
overjoyed, entranced, enchanted; enraptures; enravished[obs3];
transported; fascinated, captivated.
with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes.
pleasing &c. 829; ecstatic, beatic[obs3]; painless, unalloyed, without
alloy, cloudless.
Adv. happily &c. adj.; with pleasure &c. (willingfully) 602[obs3];
with glee &c. n..
Phr. one’s heart leaping with joy.
“a wilderness of sweets” [P.L.]; “I wish you all the joy that you can
wish” [M. of Venice]; jour de ma vie; “joy ruled the day and love the night” [Dryden]; “joys season’d high and tasting strong of guilt” [Young]; “oh happiness, our being’s end and aim!” [Pope]; “there is a pleasure that is born of pain” [O Meridith]; “throned on highest bliss” [P.L.]; vedi Napoli e poi muori[It]; zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke nicht weit [German: the bridge between joy and sorrow is not wide].
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#828. Pain. —
N. mental suffering, pain, dolor; suffering,
sufferance; ache, smart &c. (physical pain) 378; passion.
displeasure, dissatisfaction,
discomfort, discomposure, disquiet;
malaise; inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit;
taking; discontent &c. 832.
dejection &c. 837; weariness
&c. 841; anhedonia[obs3].
annoyance, irritation,
worry, infliction, visitation; plague, bore;
bother, botheration; stew, vexation, mortification,
chagrin, esclandre[Fr]; mauvais quart d’heur[Fr].
care, anxiety, solicitude,
trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal,
shock, blow, cark[obs3], dole, fret, burden, load.
concern, grief, sorrow,
distress, affliction, woe, bitterness,
heartache; carking cares; heavy heart, aching heart,
bleeding heart, broken heart; heavy affliction, gnawing
grief.
unhappiness, infelicity,
misery, tribulation, wretchedness,
desolation; despair &c. 859; extremity, prostration,
depth of misery.
nightmare, ephialtes[obs3],
incubus.
pang, anguish, agony;
torture, torment; purgatory &c. (hell) 982.
hell upon earth; iron
age, reign of terror; slough of despond &c.
(adversity) 735; peck of troubles; “ills that
flesh is heir to” &c. (evil) 619[Hamlet]; miseries
of human life; “unkindest cut of all” [Julius
Caesar].
sufferer, victim, prey,
martyr, object of compassion, wretch, shorn
lamb.
V. feel pain, suffer
pain, experience pain, undergo pain, bear pain,
endure pain &c. n., smart, ache &c. (physical pain)


