Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.
not sorry; glad, gladsome; pleased as Punch.
     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)

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