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downheartedness
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| 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 |
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| Main Entry: | discouragement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | despondency |
| Synonyms: | cold feet, dejection, depression, despair, disappointment, discomfiture, dismay, downheartedness, hopelessness, loss of confidence, low spirits, melancholy, pessimism, sadness, the blues |
| Antonyms: | cheerfulness, happiness, hopefulness |
| 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: | baby blues |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | postnatal depression |
| Synonyms: | depression, downheartedness, dumps, eyes, heaviness of heart, low spirits, lowness, melancholy, peepers, postpartum depression |
| Main Entry: | despondence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sadness |
| Synonyms: | blues, dejection, depression, desperateness, desperation, despond, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, dolefulness, downheartedness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, hopelessness, melancholy, mournfulness, unhappiness |
| 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: | 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Depression. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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-nouns
lowering; depression; dip (concavity); abasement; detrusion; reduction., overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation., bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam.
-verbs
depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate., overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears., sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline (be horizontal).
-adjectives
depressed; at a low ebb; prostrate (horizontal); detrusive.
-phrases
facinus quos inquinat aequat [Lucan].
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| Antonyms: | elevation |
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