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Of the utmost seriousness or importance
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- Of the utmost seriousness or importance
- Characterized by intense emotion; passionate:
- Marked by flames or intense heat:
Causing sadness, grief, misery, or distress
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- Causing sadness, grief, misery, or distress
- Feeling physical pain; hurting:
- Distressingly intense or bitter; extreme
Not yet processed, cleaned, etc. as by chemical treatment; untreated
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- Not yet processed, cleaned, etc. as by chemical treatment; untreated
- Having subcutaneous tissue exposed:
- Not having been subjected to adjustment, treatment, or analysis:
Damaging or harmful:
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- Damaging or harmful:
- Causing hurt; specif., wounding the feelings
- Causing pain or suffering, especially of a psychological nature.
Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings; caustic:
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- Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings; caustic:
- Relating to an animal or animals capable of biting, especially an insect.
- Of or relating to insects and certain other animals that wound the skin with a sting, mouthparts, or fangs.
Keenly perceptive or intelligent:
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- Keenly perceptive or intelligent:
- Trenchant; incisive:
- Causing pain, especially because of cold:
Abrupt or acute:
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- Abrupt or acute:
- Acutely sensitive in seeing, hearing, etc.
- Intense; severe:
Keen; extreme; intense
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- Keen; extreme; intense
- Extremely difficult to perform or endure; trying:
- Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
Designating or of the curved radial surface, or a plane curve in this surface, formed by the reflection or refraction of rays from a curved solid surface
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- Designating or of the curved radial surface, or a plane curve in this surface, formed by the reflection or refraction of rays from a curved solid surface
- Given to making caustic remarks:
- That can burn, eat away, or destroy tissue by chemical action; corrosive
(Figuratively) Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.
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- (Figuratively) Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.
- Painful, sore.
(Biology) Characterized by severe, usually oxygen-poor environmental conditions.
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- (Biology) Characterized by severe, usually oxygen-poor environmental conditions.
- Being in or attaining the greatest or highest degree; very intense:
- Participating or tending to participate in a very dangerous or difficult sport:
Causing grief
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- Causing grief
- Serious or dire; grave:
- Causing suffering; hard to bear; severe
- Having the capacity to sting.
Easily hurt, upset, or offended:
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- Easily hurt, upset, or offended:
- Aware of or careful about the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others:
- Easily hurt; tender; raw
Easily hurt; sensitive:
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- Easily hurt; sensitive:
- Soft or delicate and easily chewed, broken, cut, etc.; fragile, succulent, etc.
- Acutely sensitive, as to pain, insult, etc.
Experiencing a feeling of irritation.
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- Experiencing a feeling of irritation.
- (Pathology) Inflamed and painful.
Easily irritated or annoyed.
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- Easily irritated or annoyed.
- Capable of responding to a stimulus. Used of an organism.
- (Medicine) Abnormally or excessively sensitive to a stimulus:
Causing or creating vexation; annoying:
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- Causing or creating vexation; annoying:
- Characterized by or causing vexation; annoying, troublesome, etc.
- (Law, of an action) Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
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- Causing agony.
Very intense or extreme:
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- Very intense or extreme:
- Causing intense physical or mental pain; agonizing
- Intensely painful; agonizing.
Of, relating to, or causing torture.
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- Of, relating to, or causing torture.
- Of or causing torture
- Extremely painful or difficult
- Affected with ulcers
- (Medicine) Affected by an abscess. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
Causing anxiety; disquieting.
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- Causing anxiety; disquieting.
- Experiencing discomfort.
- Not pleasant or agreeable; causing discomfort
(Figuratively) Unpleasant.
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- (Figuratively) Unpleasant.
- Causing distaste; disagreeable
- Unpleasant to taste
Causing grief
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- Causing grief
- Very serious; deplorable
- Causing suffering; hard to bear; severe
Causing sadness, gloom, or dejection:
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- Causing sadness, gloom, or dejection:
- Causing especially emotional depression.
- Causing depression or sadness.
- Causing sadness.
healthy
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comfortable
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well
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sore
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disturbing
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Experiencing aches.
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- Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.
- Causing pain or suffering, especially of a psychological nature.
- Causing hurt; specif., wounding the feelings
Causing persistent mild pain, or annoyance.
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- Causing persistent mild pain, or annoyance.
- Painful, sore.
- (Figuratively) Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.
Causing sadness, grief, misery, or distress
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- Causing sadness, grief, misery, or distress
- Causing embarrassment or irritation:
- Feeling physical pain; hurting:
Resulting from or expressive of severe grief, anguish, or disappointment:
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- Resulting from or expressive of severe grief, anguish, or disappointment:
- Difficult or distasteful to accept, admit, or bear:
- Proceeding from or exhibiting strong animosity:
(Figuratively) Unpleasant.
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- (Figuratively) Unpleasant.
- Unpleasant to taste
- Unpleasant; disagreeable:
Not easily digested
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- Not easily digested
- That cannot be digested
- Difficult or impossible to digest:
(By extension) unpleasant or disagreeable
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- (By extension) unpleasant or disagreeable
- Unpleasant to the taste
- Not pleasant or agreeable:
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