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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression |
| Synonyms: | apathy, black mood, blahs, blue funk, blues, boredom, bummer, dejection, disinterest, dismals, downer, dullness, dumps, ennui, funk, gloom, inactivity, indifference, inertia, lassitude, letdown, listlessness, malaise, mopes, slump, stagnation, stupor, tedium, torpor, yawn |
| Antonyms: | elation, gladness, glee, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | gloom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | melancholy, depression |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bitterness, blue devils, blue funk, blues, catatonia, chagrin, cheerlessness, dejection, desolation, despair, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, dismals, distress, doldrums, dolor, downheartedness, dullness, dumps, foreboding, grief, heaviness, heavy-heartedness, horror, low spirits, malaise, misery, misgiving, mopes, morbidity, mourning, oppression, pensiveness, pessimism, sadness, saturninity, sorrow, unhappiness, vexation, weariness, woe |
| Antonyms: | animation, cheer, contentedness, encouragement, happiness, joy, sparkle, vivaciousness |
| Main Entry: | grief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental suffering |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, bemoaning, bereavement, bewailing, care, dejection, deploring, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, disquiet, distress, dole, dolor, gloom, grievance, harassment, heartache, heartbreak, infelicity, lamentation, lamenting, malaise, melancholy, misery, mortification, mournfulness, mourning, pain, purgatory, regret, remorse, repining, rue, sadness, sorrow, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | delight, ecstasy, exhilaration, happiness |
| Main Entry: | heartache |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anguish, sorrow |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, bitterness, broken heart, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, distress, dolor, grief, heartbreak, heavy heart, hurting, misery, pang, remorse, sadness, suffering, torment, torture |
| Main Entry: | melancholy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression, sadness |
| Synonyms: | blahs, blue devils, blue funk, blues, boredom, bummer, dejection, despair, desperation, despondency, dismals, dolefuls, dolor, down trip, downer, dumps, ennui, funk, gloom, gloominess, grief, letdown, low spirits, miserableness, misery, mopes, mournfulness, pensiveness, sorrow, tedium, unhappiness, wistfulness, woe, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | cheer, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | pessimism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in bad outcome |
| Synonyms: | cynicism, dark side, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, dim view, distrust, dyspepsia, expectation of worst, gloom, gloominess, gloomy outlook, glumness, grief, hopelessness, low spirits, melancholy, sadness, unhappiness |
| Antonyms: | confidence, optimism, trust |
| Main Entry: | pity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling of mercy toward another |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, charity, clemency, comfort, commiseration, compassion, compunction, condolement, condolence, dejection, distress, empathy, favor, forbearance, goodness, grace, humanity, kindliness, kindness, lenity, melancholy, mercy, philanthropy, quarter, rue, ruth, sadness, solace, sorrow, sympathy, tenderness, understanding, warmth |
| Antonyms: | disdain, malevolence, mercilessness |
| Main Entry: | sadness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unhappiness, depression |
| Synonyms: | anguish, blahs, bleakness, blue devils, blue funk, broken heart, bummer, cheerlessness, dejection, despondency, disconsolateness, dismals, dispiritedness, distress, dolefulness, dolor, downcastness, downer, dysphoria, forlornness, funk, gloominess, grief, grieving, heartache, heartbreak, heavy heart, hopelessness, letdown, listlessness, melancholy, misery, moodiness, mopes, mournfulness, mourning, poignancy, sorrow, sorrowfulness, the blues, the dumps, tribulation, woe |
| Antonyms: | cheer, gladness, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | sorrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme upset, grief |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, bad news, big trouble, blow, blues, care, catastrophe, dejection, depression, distress, dolor, grieving, hardship, heartache, heartbreak, lamenting, melancholy, misery, misfortune, mourning, pain, rain*, regret, remorse, repentance, rue, sadness, suffering, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, weeping, woe, worry, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | happiness, joy, relief |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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