ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

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 † .
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 † ; transported; fascinated,
captivated.
with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes.
pleasing &c 829; ecstatic, beatic † ; painless, unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless.
Adv. happily &c adj.; with pleasure &c (willingfully) 602 [Obs.]; with glee &c n..
Phr. one's heart leaping with joy.
a wilderness of sweets [Paradise Lost]; 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
[Paradise Lost]; vedi Napoli e poi muori [It]; zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke
nicht weit [G.], the bridge between joy and sorrow is not wide.
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 † .
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 † , 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 † , 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) 378; suffer, bleed, ail; be the victim of.
labor under afflictions; bear the cross; quaff the bitter cup, have a bad time of it; fall
on evil days &c (adversity) 735; go hard with, come to grief, fall a sacrifice to, drain the
cup of misery to the dregs, sup full of horrors [Macbeth].
sit on thorns, be on pins and needles, wince, fret, chafe, worry oneself, be in a taking,
fret and fume; take on, take to heart; cark † .
grieve; mourn &c (lament) 839; yearn, repine, pine, droop, languish, sink; give way;
despair &c 859; break one's heart; weigh upon the heart &c (inflict pain) 830.