infelicity
121mishap — n 1. accident, misfortune, misadventure, mischance, miscarriage, casualty, glitch, Scot, and North Eng. mishanter or mischanter; blow, nasty or staggering blow, buffet, stroke, stroke of bad luck or fortune; calamity, catastrophe, cataclysm,… …
122oppression — n 1. persecution, despotism, tyranny, fascism; iron hand, iron fist, heavy hand, high hand; compulsion, coercion, subjugation, enslavement; harassment, dogging, hounding, tormenting; cruelty, severity, harshness, hardness; ruthlessness,… …
123pain — n 1. hurt, ache, aching, smart, smarting, soreness, discomfort; twinge, pinch, gripe, nip, pang, shock, crick, stitch, stabbing pain, sharp pain; throb, throbbing, gnawing pain, burning pain. 2. torture, torment, rack, agony; anguish, grief, woe …
124sorrow — n 1. grief, sadness, Archaic. dole, woe, ruth, heartache, heartbreak; misery, Archaic. bale, dolor, anguish; ache, hurt, pain, suffering; torture, torment, agony; bereavement, mourning; woefulness, wretchedness, heaviness of heart, desolation,… …
125woe — n 1. misery, wretchedness, grief, anguish, agony of mind or spirit, bitterness, Archaic. bale; sorrow, sadness, infelicity, unhappiness, dolor, heartache, heartbreak, broken heart, broken heartedness, heartsickness, heavy heart; desolation,… …
126bad form — [n] bad style barbarism, impropriety, indecorum, inelegance, infelicity, solecism; concepts 275,633 …
127grief — [n] mental suffering affliction, agony, anguish, bemoaning, bereavement, bewailing, care, dejection, deploring, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, disquiet, distress, dole, dolor, gloom, grievance, harassment, heartache,… …
128misfortune — / mishap [n] bad luck; disaster accident, adversity, affliction, annoyance, anxiety, bad break*, bad news*, blow*, burden, calamity, casuality, cataclysm, catastrophe, contretemps, cross, crunch, debacle, disadvantage, disappointment, discomfort …
