Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, nasty, sickly |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, ailing, brooding, dark, deadly, depressed, despondent, diseased, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrid, infected, irascible, macabre, malignant, melancholy, monstrous, moody, pessimistic, saturnine, sick, somber, sullen, unhealthy, unnatural, unsound, unusual, unwholesome |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, healthy, pleased, sound |
| Main Entry: | sad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy, depressed |
| Synonyms: | bereaved, bitter, blue*, cheerless, dejected, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, down, down in dumps, down in mouth, downcast, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieved, heartbroken, heartsick, heavyhearted, hurting, in doldrums, in grief, in the dumps, languishing, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, melancholy, morbid, morose, mournful, out of sorts, pensive, pessimistic, sick at heart, somber, sorrowful, sorry, troubled, weeping, wistful, woebegone |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, glad, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | saturnine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy |
| Synonyms: | blue*, cheerless, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, dispirited, dour, down, down in the dumps, forlorn, glum, grave, hopeless, in low spirits, in the dumps, low, melancholy, miserable, moping, morose, sad, solemn, sorrowful, sulky, sullen, unhappy, woebegone, woeful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spiritless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, blah*, blue*, broken, cast down, dejected, despondent, disconsolate, dispirited, dopey, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, draggy, drippy, droopy, dull, enervated, flat tire, flat*, inanimate, indifferent, lackadaisical, lackluster, languid, languishing, languorous, lifeless, limp, listless, low, melancholic, melancholy, mopy, slothful, subdued, submissive, tame, torpid, unconcerned, unenthusiastic, unmoved, zero* |
| Antonyms: | energetic, happy, lively, spirited, uplifted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unhappy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sad |
| Synonyms: | bleak, bleeding, blue*, bummed out, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, down and out, down in the mouth, down*, downbeat, downcast, dragged, dreary, gloomy, grim, heavy-hearted, hurting, in a blue funk, in pain, in the dumps, let-down, long-faced, low, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, mournful, oppressive, put away, ripped, saddened, sorrowful, sorry, teary, troubled |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, glad, happy, joyous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | woebegone |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, troubled |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, blue*, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, doleful, down, down-in-the-mouth, downcast, downhearted, dreary, forlorn, gloomy, grief-stricken, grim, hangdog, hurting, in pain, long-faced, low, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, shot down, sorrowful, unhappy, woeful, wretched |
| Antonyms: | enthused, excited, happy, untroubled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heavyhearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | saddened |
| Synonyms: | dejected, depressed, despondent, doleful, melancholy, sad, unhappy |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, lighthearted |
| Main Entry: | heavy-hearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed |
| Synonyms: | at, bad, bleeding, blue*, bummed out, cast-down, crestfallen, crummy, dejected, desolate, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, dispirited, down, down and out, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, dragged, dull, dysphoric, fe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irremediable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless |
| Synonyms: | bad, beyond recall, cureless, cynical, dejected, demoralized, despairing, desperate, despondent, disconsolate, discouraging, downhearted, fatal, forlorn, gone*, goner, helpless, ill-fated, impossible, impracticable, in despair, incurable, irredeemable, irreparable, irreversible, irrevocable, lost, menacing, no-win, past hope, pointless, sad, shot down, sinister, sunk, threatening, tragic, unachievable, unavailing, unfortunate, unmitigable, up the creek, useless, vain, woebegone, worsening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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