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forlornness
[fawr-lawrn] 
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desolation
[des-uh-ley-shuhn]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uninhabitated area; barrenness |
| Synonyms: | bareness, bleakness, desert, devastation, dissolution, extinction, forlornness, isolation, loneliness, ruin, solitariness, solitude, waste, wildness, wreck |
| Antonyms: | civilization |
| Main Entry: | loneliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | isolation |
| Synonyms: | alienation, aloneness, desolation, forlornness, friendlessness, heartache, lonesomeness, remoteness, seclusion, solitariness, solitude, withdrawal |
| 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: | 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: | dreariness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gloominess |
| Synonyms: | blandness, boringness, colorlessness, depression, drabness, dryness, dullness, flatness, flavorlessness, forlornness, gloom, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, joylessness, lifelessness, melancholy, sadness, vapidity, vapidness |
| Main Entry: | hopelessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | despair |
| Synonyms: | anguish, dashed hopes, dejection, desperateness, desperation, despond, despondence, despondency, discouragement, disheartenment, forlornness, gloom, melancholy, misery, ordeal, pain, sorrow, trial, tribulation, wretchedness |
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| Main Entry: | hopelessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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at one's last gasp, beyond remedy, broken, despairing, forlorn, given over, given up, hopeless, ill, impracticable, in despair, inauspicious, inconsolable, incorrigible, incurable, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, not to be thought of, out of the question, past cure, past hope, past mending, past recall, remediless, ruined, threatening, undone, unpromising, unpropitious
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| Concept: | [Absence, want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness. |
| Category: | 3. Prospective Affections |
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-nouns
hopelessness; despair, desperation; despondency (dejection); pessimism, pessimist; Job's comforter; bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen., hope deferred, dashed hopes; vain expectation (disappointment)., airy hopes; forlorn hope; gone case; goner; bad job, bad business; enfant perdu; gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon; slough of Despond, cave of Despair; immedicabile vulnus.
-verbs
despair; lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope, relinquish all hope, lose the hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the hope of, relinquish the hope of; give up, give over; yield to despair; falter; despond (be dejected); jeter le manche apres la cognee., inspire despair, drive to despair; disconcert; dash one's hopes, crush one's hopes, destroy one's hopes; hope against hope.
-adjectives
hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir, forlorn; inconsolable (dejected); brokenhearted., out of the question, not to be thought of; impracticable; past hope, past cure, past mending, past recall; at one's last gasp (death) [more]; given up, given over., incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy; incorrigible; irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irrevocable; ruined, undone; immitigable., unpromising, unpropitious; unauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over.
-phrases
"lasciate ogni speranza voi ch' entrate" [Dante]; its days are numbered; the worst come to the worst; "no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure" [Shelley];
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| Antonyms: | hope |
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