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

efreshing; comfortable; cordial; genial; glad, gladsome; sweet, delectable, nice,
dainty; delicate, delicious; dulcet; luscious &c 396; palatable &c 394; luxurious,
voluptuous; sensual &c 377.
[of people] attractive &c 615; inviting, prepossessing, engaging; winning, winsome;
taking, fascinating, captivating, killing; seducing, seductive; heart-robbing, alluring,
enticing; appetizing &c (exciting) 824; cheering &c 836; bewitching; enchanting,
entrancing, enravishing † .
charming; delightful, felicitous, exquisite; lovely &c (beautiful) 845; ravishing,
rapturous; heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic; beatic † ; beatific; seraphic; empyrean; elysian &c
(heavenly) 981.
palmy, halcyon, Saturnian.
Phr. decies repetita placebit [Lat.]; charms strike the sight but merit wins the soul
[Pope]; sweetness and light [Swift]; beauty is only skin deep.
830. [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain]. Painfulness -- N. painfulness
&c adj.; trouble, care &c (pain) 828; trial; affliction, infliction; blow, stroke, burden,
load, curse; bitter pill, bitter draught; waters of bitterness.
annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification, sickener † ; bore, bother,
pother, hot water, sea of troubles [Hamlet], hornet's nest, plague, pest.
cancer, ulcer, sting, thorn; canker &c (bane) 663; scorpion &c (evil doer) 913; dagger
&c (arms) 727; scourge &c (instrument of punishment) 975; carking care, canker worm
of care.
mishap, misfortune &c (adversity) 735; desagrement [Fr.], esclandre [Fr.], rub.
source of irritation, source of annoyance; wound, open sore; sore subject, skeleton in
the closet; thorn in the flesh, thorn in one's side; where the shoe pinches, gall and
wormwood.
sorry sight, heavy news, provocation; affront &c 929; head and front of one's
offending [Othello].
infestation, molestation; malignity &c (malevolence) 907.
V. cause pain, occasion pain, give pain, bring pain, induce pain, produce pain, create
pain, inflict pain &c 828; pain, hurt, wound.
pinch, prick, gripe &c (physical pain) 378; pierce, lancinate † , cut.
hurt the feelings, wound the feelings, grate upon the feelings, grate upon the nerves,
jar upon the feelings; wring the heart, pierce the heart, lacerate the heart, break the heart,
rend the heart; make the heart bleed; tear the heart strings, rend the heart strings; draw
tears from the eyes.
sadden; make unhappy &c 828; plunge into sorrow, grieve, fash † , afflict, distress; cut
up, cut to the heart.
displease, annoy, incommode, discompose, trouble, disquiet; faze, feaze † , feeze
[U.S.]; disturb, cross, perplex, molest, tease, tire, irk, vex, mortify, wherret † , worry,
plague, bother, pester, bore, pother, harass, harry, badger, heckle, bait, beset, infest,
persecute, importune.
wring, harrow, torment, torture; bullyrag; put to the rack, put to the question; break on
the wheel, rack, scarify; cruciate † , crucify; convulse, agonize; barb the dart; plant a
dagger in the breast, plant a thorn in one's side.