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doldrums
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of mind |
| Synonyms: | affection, air, atmosphere, attitude, aura, bent*, blues, caprice, character, color*, condition, crotchet, cue, depression, desire, disposition, doldrums, dumps, emotion, fancy, feel*, feeling, frame of mind, high spirits, humor, inclination, individuality, low spirits, melancholy, mind, personality, pleasure, propensity, response, scene, semblance, soul, spirit, strain, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, timbre, vagary, vein, whim, wish |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tedium |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness, monotony |
| Synonyms: | banality, boredom, deadness, doldrums, drabness, dreariness, ennui, irksomeness, lack of interest, lifelessness, routine, sameness, tediousness, tiresomeness, wearisomeness, yawn |
| Antonyms: | diversion, entertainment, excitement |
| Main Entry: | inaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of doing nothing |
| Synonyms: | acedia, deferral, deliquescence, depression, doldrums, dormancy, ennui, fecklessness, idleness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, lassitude, lethargy, otiosity, passivity, quiescence, quietude, slothfulness, stagnation, stasis, suspension, torpidity, torpor |
| Antonyms: | action |
| Main Entry: | dolefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sadness |
| Synonyms: | anguish, blues, dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, doldrums, downheartedness, dumps, gloom, glumness, grief, heartache, heavy-heartedness, melancholy, mournfulness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
| Main Entry: | downheartedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gloom |
| Synonyms: | blues, dejection, depression, desolation, despondence, despondency, dispiritedness, doldrums, dolefulness, dumps, forlornness, funk, gloominess, glumness, low-spiritedness, melancholy, mournfulness, sadness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | glumness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gloom |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bitterness, blue devils, blue funk, blues, catatonia, chagrin, cheerlessness, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, dismals, distress, doldrums, dolefulness, dolor, downheartedn |
| Main Entry: | heavy-heartedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gloom |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bitterness, blue devils, blue funk, blues, catatonia, chagrin, cheerlessness, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, dismals, distress, doldrums, dolefulness, dolor, downheartedn |
| Main Entry: | mournfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gloom |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bitterness, blue devils, blue funk, blues, catatonia, chagrin, cheerlessness, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, dismals, distress, doldrums, dolefulness, dolor, downheartedness, dullness, dumps, dysphoria, foreboding, funk, glumness, grief, heaviness, heavy-heartedness, horror, low spirits, malaise, melancholy, misery, misgiving, mope, mopes, morbidity, mourning, oppression, pensiveness, pessimism, sadness, saturninity, sorrow, unhappiness, vexation, weariness, woe |
| Main Entry: | peacefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calm |
| Synonyms: | calmness, dispassion, doldrums, hush, impassivity, imperturbation, lull, patience, peace, peace of mind*, placidity, placidness, quiet, quietude, repose, rest, restraint, serenity, silence, stillness, stoicism, tranquility, tranquillity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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