tiresome, irksome, wearisome; plaguing, plaguy[obs3]; awkward.
     importunate; teasing, pestering, bothering, harassing, worrying,
tormenting, carking.
     intolerable, insufferable, insupportable; unbearable, unendurable;
past bearing; not to be borne, not to be endured; more than flesh and blood can bear; enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot.
     shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing; dreadful, fearful,
frightful; thrilling, tremendous, dire; heart-breaking, heart-rending, heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heart-sickening; harrowing, rending.
     odious, hateful, execrable, repulsive, repellent, abhorrent; horrid,
horrible, horrific, horrifying; offensive.
     nauseous, nauseating; disgusting, sickening, revolting; nasty;
loathsome, loathful[obs3]; fulsome; vile &c. (bad) 649; hideous &c. 846.
     sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting,
caustic; cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating, searching, grinding, grating, agonizing; envenomed; catheretic[obs3], pyrotic[Med].
     ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, tragical; desolating, withering;
burdensome, onerous, oppressive; cumbrous, cumbersome. 
     Adv. painfully &c. adj.; with pain &c. 828; deuced. 
     Int. hinc illae lachrymae[Lat]! 
     Phr. surgit amari aliquid[Lat][obs3]; the place being too hot to hold
one; the iron entering into the soul; “he jests at scars that never felt a wound” [Romeo and Juliet]; “I must be cruel only to be kind” [Hamlet]; “what deep wounds ever closed without a scar?” [Byron].

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     #831.  Content. —­ N. content, contentment, contentedness; complacency,
satisfaction, entire satisfaction, ease, heart’s ease, peace of mind; serenity &c. 826; cheerfulness &c. 836; ray of comfort; comfort &c. (well-being) 827.
     reconciliation; resignation &c. (patience) 826.
     [person who is contented] waiter on Providence. 
     V. be content &c. adj.; rest satisfied, rest and be thankful; take the
good the gods provide, let well alone, let well enough alone, feel oneself at home, hug oneself, lay the flattering unction to one’s soul.
     take up with, take in good part; accept, tolerate; consent &c. 762;
acquiesce, assent &c. 488; be reconciled to, make one’s peace with; get over it; take heart, take comfort; put up with &c. (bear) 826.
     render content &c. adj.; set at ease, comfort; set one’s heart at
ease, set one’s mind at ease, set one’s heart at rest, set one’s mind at rest; speak peace; conciliate, reconcile, win over, propitiate, disarm, beguile; content, satisfy; gratify &c. 829.
     be tolerated &c. 826; go down, go down well, go down with; do; be OK. 
     Adj. content, contented; satisfied &c. v.; at ease, at one’s ease, at
home; with the mind at ease, sans souci[Fr], sine cura[Lat], easygoing, not particular; conciliatory;