Nearby Words
in the dumps
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressing, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | austere, black, bleak, blue, comfortless, dark, dejected, dejecting, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, dolorous, drab, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dull, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, grim, in the dumps, jarring, joyless, melancholy, miserable, mopey, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, sorrowful, sullen, tenebrific, uncomfortable, wintry, woebegone, woeful |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, uplifting |
| Main Entry: | despairing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upset, despondent |
| Synonyms: | anxious, at end of one's rope, blue, brokenhearted, can't win, cynical, dejected, depressed, desperate, disconsolate, downcast, forlorn, frantic, grief-stricken, hopeless, in pain, in the dumps, in the pits, in the soup, inconsolable, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, no-win, not a prayer, oppressed, pessimistic, sad, shot down, strabilious, suicidal, sunk, weighed down, wretched |
| Antonyms: | confident, encouraged, expectant, hopeful |
| Main Entry: | discouraged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disheartened |
| Synonyms: | beat, beat-down, blue, caved-in, come-apart, crestfallen, dashed, daunted, depressed, deterred, dismayed, dispirited, down, down-in-mouth, downbeat, downcast, glum*, gone to pieces, in a funk, in blue funk, in the dumps, lost momentum, pessimistic, sad |
| Antonyms: | encouraged, heartened, inspired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forlorn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, inconsolable |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, alone, bereft, blue*, cheerless, comfortless, cynical, defenseless, depressed, deserted, desolate, despairing, desperate, despondent, destitute, destroyed, disconsolate, down and out, dragging, forgotten, forsaken, friendless, fruitless, futile, godforsaken, helpless, homeless, in the dumps, lonely, lonesome, lost, miserable, oppressed, pathetic, pessimistic, pitiable, pitiful, solitary, tragic, unhappy, vain, weighed down, woebegone, wretched |
| Notes: | lonely adds to solitary a suggestion of longing for companionship, while lonesome heightens the suggestion of sadness; forlorn and desolate are even more isolated and sad |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, comforted, consolable, happy, hopeful, joyful, pleased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gloomy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | feeling down, blue |
| Synonyms: | blue funk, broody, chapfallen, cheerless, crabbed, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, dour, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, dragged, forlorn, glum, in low spirits, in the dumps, joyless, low, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moody, moping, mopish, morose, mournful, oppressed, pessimistic, sad, saturnine, solemn, sulky, sullen, surly, ugly, unhappy, weary, woebegone, woeful |
| Antonyms: | animated, cheerful, content, encouraged, happy, joyful, sparkling, vivacious |
| 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: | 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: | down in the mouth |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | feeling dejected or sad |
| Synonyms: | chapfallen, dejected, depressed, discouraged, down in the dumps, in the doldrums, in the dumps, low in spirits, low-spirited, sad |
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