THESAURUS
Grief
accident, ache, aching, aching heart, adversity, affliction, agony, agony of mind, anguish, apologies, attrition, ayenbite of inwit, bale, bemoaning, bewailing, bitterness, bleakness, bleeding heart, blow, broken heart, burden, calamity, care, carking care, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cheerlessness, collision, come apart, come to grief, come unstuck, comfortlessness, contretemps, contriteness, contrition, crack-up, cramp, crash, crushing, curse, cut, dejection, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, despondency, difficulty, disaster, discomfort, dismalness, distress, distressfulness, dole, dolor, dreariness, extremity, fail, grievousness, heartache, heartbreak, heartfelt grief, heartgrief, heavy heart, hurt, ill hap, infelicity, injury, joylessness, lamentability, lamentation, lamenting, languishment, lesion, load, melancholia, melancholy, misadventure, miscarry, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, mournfulness, nasty blow, onus, ordeal, pain, painfulness, pang, passion, pathos, pileup, pining, pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, poignancy, prostration, regret, regretfulness, regrets, regrettableness, regretting, remorse, remorse of conscience, remorsefulness, repining, rue, ruth, sadness, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, shamefulness, sharpness, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, sore, sore spot, sorriness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, sorrowing, spasm, staggering blow, stress, stress of life, stroke, suffering, suicidal despair, tender spot, throes, torment, tragedy, trauma, travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, wistfulness, woe, woebegoneness, woefulness, worry, wound, wreck, wrench, wretchedness
ROGET THESAURUS
Grief
Pain
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mental suffering, pain, dolor, suffering, sufferance, ache, smart, passion, displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, malaise, inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit, taking, discontent, dejection, weariness, anhedonia, annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation, plague, bore, bother, botheration, stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre, mauvais quart d'heur, care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal, shock, blow, cark, 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, extremity, prostration, depth of misery, nightmare, ephialtes, incubus, pang, anguish, agony, torture, torment, purgatory, hell upon earth, iron age, reign of terror, slough of despond, peck of troubles, ills that flesh is heir to, miseries of human life, unkindest cut of all, sufferer, victim, prey, martyr, object of compassion, wretch, shorn lamb, in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain, suffering, pained, afflicted, worried, displeased, aching, griped, sore, on the rack, in limbo, between hawk and buzzard, uncomfortable, uneasy, ill at ease, in a taking, in a way, disturbed, discontented, out of humor, weary, heavy laden, stricken, crushed, a prey to, victimized, ill-used, unfortunate, to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded, fey, unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone, cheerless, careworn, concerned, sorry, sorrowing, sorrowful, cut up, chagrined, horrified, horror-stricken, in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief, in tears, steeped to the lips in misery, heart-stricken, heart-broken, heart-scalded, broken-hearted, in despair, the iron entered into our soul, haeret lateri lethalis arundo, one's heart bleeding, down, thou climbing sorrow, mirth cannot move a soul in agony, nessun maggior dolere che ricordarsi del tempo fel, sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier th, the Niobe of Nations.