adj
Characterised or marked by aching; painful
adv
In an aching manner; sorely.
adj
Suffering from aches, sore.
adj
Emotionally moved; touched.
adv
Under a burden of affliction.
adv
In a way that causes affliction.
n
A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
adj
That causes physical or mental pain.
adj
(obsolete) aggravating
adj
Having become more severe, dangerous or worse than usual before.
adv
In an aggravated manner.
adv
In an aggravating manner.
adv
In an agitated manner.
adj
Characterized by agony.
adj
Feeling or undergoing agony; agonized.
n
Alternative form of agonizing [The act of one who agonizes.]
adv
Alternative spelling of agonizingly [In an agonizing manner; in a way that causes agony.]
adv
In an agonizing manner; in a way that causes agony.
adj
(rare) Possessing or filled with agony.
n
(biblical) The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
adv
(now rare) In an aguish manner; as though suffering from ague.
adj
(obsolete) Painful; troublesome.
adv
To an extent that causes alarm.
n
(obsolete) Affliction or trouble.
n
Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
adv
In an anguished manner.
adv
(obsolete) With anguish; anguishedly.
adj
(obsolete) Full of anguish.
adj
Obsolete form of anguished. [Feeling anguish; experiencing extreme discomfort or discontent.]
adj
Capable of being annoyed.
adv
In an appalling manner.
adv
In a backbreaking manner.
adv
In a baffling or puzzling manner.
adj
(obsolete) Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.
adv
In a bemoaning manner.
adj
having suffered the death of a loved one
adj
Expressing contrasting emotions of pain and pleasure.
adv
in a bloodcurdling manner
n
A feeling of grief or loss, especially after a failed romantic relationship.
n
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy triggered by emotional stress, such as the death of a loved one
adj
Grieved and disappointed, especially with the loss of a beloved person or thing, such as the repudiation of a romantic relationship.
adv
In a brokenhearted manner.
adj
Afflicted with calenture.
adv
(obsolete) Sorrowfully.
adj
Feeling chagrin (at something); vexed; fretful.
adj
Arousing strong emotion.
adj
An angry or despairing intensifier.
adj
(of a comment, etc.) Penetrating and relatable, to the point of causing discomfort.
adv
In a manner that causes concern; worryingly.
adv
In a condoling manner.
adv
So as to cramp or confine.
adv
In a crestfallen manner.
adj
Causing a severe and insurmountable problem; detrimental.
adj
Devastatingly disheartening.
adv
In a depressed manner.
adv
In a depressing manner.
adv
(obsolete) Sorrowfully; grievously.
adv
In a despairful manner.
adv
In a despairing manner.
adv
In a despiteous manner.
adv
In a devastating manner.
adj
(figuratively) Suffering from mental anguish.
adv
In a cheerless, dreary manner; in a manner which suggests that one is beyond consolation.
adv
In a disheartened manner, dispiritedly.
adv
In a manner that causes dismay.
adv
In a distraught manner.
adv
in a distressed manner
adv
In a distressful way; showing distress
adv
In a distressing manner; so as to cause distress.
adv
In a disturbing manner.
adj
Obsolete spelling of doleful [Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.]
adj
(archaic) Sad, sorrowful.
adj
(obsolete) Producing pain.
adj
Causing grief or pain.
adj
Grievous and sorrowful.
adv
(music) plaintively; pathetically
n
(chiefly uncountable, literary) Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow.
adj
Obsolete form of dolorous. [Solemnly or ponderously sad.]
adv
Rare spelling of dolorously. [In a dolorous manner.]
adv
In a downhearted manner
adj
(regional, obsolete) Sorrowful, disturbed.
adv
In a drudging manner; laboriously.
adv
In a dumbfounding manner.
adj
Dire; characterized by human suffering or misery.
adj
elegiac; expressing sorrow.
adj
(obsolete) Melancholy, miserable, plaintive.
adv
In an embarrassed manner.
adv
In an embarrassing manner.
adj
Hurt, grieved, pained.
n
(idiomatic) Something so distressing that it causes one to lose hope and faith.
adv
In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
adv
In an exasperated manner.
adj
(archaic) Liable to torment.
adv
In a very intense or extreme manner.
adv
In a fearsome manner, or to a fearsome extent
n
(Tyneside, Cumbria) A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.
adv
in a flabbergasted manner.
adv
With fretting behaviour.
adv
In a frustrated manner.
adv
In a frustrating manner; in a manner that causes frustration.
adv
Intensely, as with embarrassment.
n
(uncountable, obsolete) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
n
A grievance complained of.
adj
(dated) Very serious; full of weight, meaning; grievous.
adj
Obsolete spelling of grievous [Causing grief, pain, or sorrow.]
adj
(nonstandard outside dialects) Alternative spelling of grievous [Causing grief, pain, or sorrow.]
n
Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
adj
Very sad; grief-stricken.
n
Obsolete spelling of grief [Suffering, hardship.]
adj
(archaic) Expressing or full of grief; painful.
adj
Marked by grief; grievous
n
(countable) Something which causes grief.
n
One who is the object of a formal grievance.
n
Obsolete form of grievance. [(countable) Something which causes grief.]
adj
(literary) Very sad or distressed, sorely upset.
adj
Marked by grief or grieving; grievous
adj
(nonstandard outside dialects) Alternative form of grievous [Causing grief, pain, or sorrow.]
adv
In a grievous manner, severely.
adj
(obsolete) agonizing; sad
adj
Obsolete form of groanful. [(obsolete) agonizing; sad]
adj
Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching [sickening]
adj
tormented, harassed or worried
adv
in a hair-raising manner
adj
Causing pain or distress.
adv
In a way or to an extent that is harrowing
adv
In a manner causing headache.
n
(idiomatic) A heart (or by extension, person) in a very fragile romantic state, one that is easily made broken-hearted.
adj
(idiomatic) That causes extreme sorrow or grief.
adv
In a heart-breaking manner.
adj
Alternative form of heartrending [That causes great grief, anguish or distress.]
adv
In a heart-rending manner.
adj
(idiomatic) That causes shatter of a heart; very depressing.
adj
Synonym of heart-rending
adv
In a heart-stopping way.
adj
Pronunciation spelling of heart-touching. [Emotionally moving.]
adj
Alternative form of heartwrenching [Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.]
adj
Alternative form of heartwrenchingly
n
Very sincere and difficult emotional problems or stress.
adv
So as to cause heartache.
adj
Causing, or afflicted with, heartache.
n
(figuratively) The condition of heartbreak resulting from a failed romance.
n
An epithet of the professional wrestler Shawn Michaels.
n
Something that causes sorrow, grief or extreme disappointment.
v
Pronunciation spelling of heartbreaking.
adv
In a heartbreaking manner
adj
(dialect or nonstandard) heartbroken
adj
Suffering from grief, especially after a failed romance.
adv
In a heartbroken manner.
adv
In a heartrending manner.
adj
That shatters a heart; very depressing.
adj
Very despondent or sorrowful.
adj
Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
adv
In a heartwrenching manner.
n
(figuratively) A strong feeling of sadness or misery
adj
(idiomatic) sad, melancholic.
adv
In a heavy-hearted manner; sadly, morosely.
adv
In a horrified manner.
adv
In a horrifying manner
adv
That hurts; so as to cause pain.
adj
Characterised or marked by hurt; causing injury or pain
adv
in an ignominious manner
adv
(chiefly US and Canada, idiomatic) Urgently; desperately; to an extreme degree.
adv
In an indignant manner.
adv
In an infuriating manner.
adj
Marked by irritation or annoyance; disagreeable; troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition
adv
In an irritated manner.
adv
In a jeopardous manner.
adj
Distressing, uncomfortable.
adv
In a manner that lacerates.
adv
In a lachrymose manner.
adv
(music) Sadly, unhappily, grievingly.
adv
Alternative form of lacrimoso [(music) Sadly, unhappily, grievingly.]
adv
Regrettably. In a manner deserving or inspiring lamentation.
adv
In a way that is lamented.
adv
In an lamenting manner.
adj
Sadly missed due to death
adv
In a lugubrious manner.
n
(archaic) melancholy, mournfulness
adv
In a maddening manner.
adj
Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
adv
In a melancholy manner.
adv
In a melancholious manner.
n
Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
adj
(archaic) Timid, fearful, overly cautious.
adv
In a mirthless manner; sadly.
adv
In a morbid manner, or to a morbid degree.
adv
In a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something.
adv
In a mourning manner; grievingly.
adj
Characterised by mourning; mournful
adv
In a moved manner; affected emotionally.
adj
Causing persistent mild pain, or annoyance.
adv
In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.
adj
(colloquial) Painful, hurtful; that is expressed by the word ouch.
adj
Pain-causing; deliberately painful.
adj
In pain, especially in an emotional sense.
adj
Archaic spelling of painful. [Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.]
adv
In a painful manner; as if in pain.
n
Something that causes pain.
adj
Alternative form of pain-making [Pain-causing; deliberately painful.]
adj
Indicating or marked by pain; painful
n
(poetic, rare) A cry or feeling of pain and distress.
adj
(rare, chiefly philosophy) Relating to, having, showing or causing pain.
n
(often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.
adj
(rare, chiefly poetic) Full of pangs; sorrowful, anguishing.
adj
Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos.
n
sorrow; grief; mourning or sadness
adv
In a manner that perturbs.
adj
(figuratively) Causing irritation or annoyance.
n
(UK, regional, archaic) A miserable, melancholy man or boy.
adv
While pining; sorrowfully.
adv
In a piteous manner; pathetically; plaintively.
adv
In a plaintive manner.
adj
Indicating plight; dire; grim; grievous.
adj
Evoking strong mental sensation, to the point of distress; emotionally moving.
n
(UK) Synonym of agony column
adj
(chiefly in combination) Having (a specified form of) problems
adj
Serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating.
adj
(figuratively) Debilitating, harsh.
adv
In a puzzled manner; confusedly.
adj
Afflicted with quinsy.
adv
So as to cause suffering.
n
An essential mental state; the dominant emotional theme of a work.
adv
(archaic) Synonym of rashly (“in a rash manner; hastily or without due consideration”)
adj
Sorrowful about what has been lost or done.
adv
In a rueful manner; causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow.
adv
In a rushed manner; hurriedly, with haste.
adv
Sorrowfully, ruefully.
adj
Causing feelings of sadness.
adv
So as to cause sadness.
adj
(rare, poetic) Full of sadness; sorrowful.
adv
In a particularly horrible or brutal manner, as painfully as possible.
adv
In a sad manner; sorrowfully.
adv
In a manner that scares; frighteningly.
n
A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
adv
In a shamefaced manner.
adv
In a shattering manner
n
Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
adj
Easily moved to sorrow or pity.
adj
In an anxious or distressed way.
adv
In a sore or desperate manner.
adv
In a sorry manner; poorly.
adj
Filled with sorrow or sorrows.
adv
In a sorrowful manner; with sorrow and regret.
n
The act of feeling sorrow.
adv
While sorrowing; sorrowfully, woefully.
adv
(poetic, archaic) with sorrow, full of sorrow
adj
Marked by sorrow; sad; dreary; sorrowful
adj
(obsolete) Filled with care; anxious.
adj
(idiomatic) Scary, exciting or exhilarating.
adv
In a startling manner; surprisingly; shockingly.
adv
In a manner that strangles.
adv
In a manner which involves clutching at straws
adj
Afflicted with sunstroke.
adj
Afflicted with sunstroke.
adv
In a suspenseful manner.
n
(Caribbean) melancholy, or a painful feeling of unrequited love
adj
(informal) Emotionally charged so as to induce sorrow.
adv
In a tearjerking manner.
adj
Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
adv
In a terrifying manner.
adv
In a tiresome manner; wearisomely.
adv
In a tiring manner; so as to tire somebody.
adv
So as to cause toothache.
adj
Miserable or anguished, especially with anxiety or guilt.
adv
In a tormented manner.
adj
Full of torment; causing, or accompanied by, torment; excruciating.
adv
In a tormenting manner.
adj
(rare, dated) Involving or causing torment; having the nature of torture.
adj
Causing great grief or agony; painful; agonising
adj
Of literature, burdened by unnecessary complexity, obfuscation, abstruseness, etc.
adv
In a torturous fashion, or as if in torture
adj
Provoking sadness and pity; that can cause sadness or heartbreak among witnesses to a sad event or situation.
adv
In a traumatic manner.
adv
In a way that causes trauma.
n
The quality of something that trembles.
adv
In a trepidatious manner; with trepidation
adv
In a tristful manner; sadly.
adj
Obsolete form of trist. [(obsolete) sad; sorrowful; gloomy]
adv
In a troublesome manner.
adv
In a troubling manner; causing one to be troubled
adv
In a troublous manner.
adv
In a turbulent manner.
adj
(archaic or obsolete) sorrowful; sad
adv
In an upsetting manner.
adj
Causing vellication; provoking irritation or twitching.
adv
In a vexatious manner; so as to give annoyance.
n
Sudden death brought about by a strong emotional shock such as fear.
adv
In a woebegone manner.
adv
In a woeful manner; to an unfortunately great extent.
adj
Causing, resembling, or indicating a wound or injury; hurtful; painful.
adj
(rare, figuratively) Causing wounds.
adj
(rare) Causing great pain, suffering, or agony; painful
adv
In a yawnful manner; boringly.
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