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anguishless

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Etymology

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From anguish +‎ -less.

Adjective

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anguishless (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Without anguish.
    Antonym: anguishful
    • 1974, Roberto Sanesi, New Directions in Prose and Poetry 28[1], page 74:
      The correct inclination of the brow
      on the arm—and it is not to corrupt,
      but to gauge non-being and return to meaning—
      that nothing may move you, that you may avoid pity,
      anguishless vagabond poisoning wells
      of private dialects; but it is not…
    • 2000, Dr. H. Ramamoorthy, Nome, The Song of Ribhu[2], page 378:
      Son! in this discourse, I shall tell you further
      About the greatness of the anguishless, undivided
      Supreme Bliss of Brahman,
      As explained by the Lord of all the universe, the Supreme Lord
                (Isvara).
    • 2000 October 14, ~~~AllisonWonderland~~~, “Question for Stephen”, in alt.consciousness.4th-way[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-21:
      Speaking of which, todays anguishless country music is quite a comedown from the peak it reached some years ago when Ringo Starr (of all people) came out with his country album called: "Boucoups of Blues".
    • 2008, Jenine Gordon Bockman, Jeffrey Michael Bockman, Literal Lattt: Highlights from Fifteen Years of a Unique Mind Stimulating Literary Magazine[4], page 28:
      If only I could manage to substitute some anguish irrelevant to all this so as to distract myself from its overwhelming resonance in a world otherwise anguishless.