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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sadness, time of sadness |
| Synonyms: | aching, bereavement, blackness, crying, darkness, grief, grieving, keening, lamentation, lamenting, languishing, moaning, pining, repining, sorrowing, wailing, weeping, woe |
| Antonyms: | cheer, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | cry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weeping and making sad sounds |
| Synonyms: | bawl, bawling, bewailing, blubber, blubbering, howl, howling, keening, lament, lamentation, mourning, shedding tears, snivel, snivelling, sob, sobbing, sorrowing, tears, the blues, wailing, weep, whimpering, yowl |
| Main Entry: | desolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distress, unhappiness |
| Synonyms: | anguish, dejection, despair, gloom, gloominess, loneliness, melancholy, misery, mourning, sadness, sorrow, woe, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | cheer, comfort, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | despondent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed |
| Synonyms: | all torn up, blue*, bummed-out, cast-down, dejected, despairing, disconsolate, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, gloomy, glum, griefstricken, grieving, hopeless, in a blue funk, in despair, in the pits, low, low-spirited, melancholy, miserable, morose, mourning, sad, shot down, sorrowful, woebegone, wretched |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, elated, happy, hopeful, spirited, up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | grief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental suffering |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, bemoaning, bereavement, bewailing, care, dejection, deploring, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, disquiet, distress, dole, dolor, gloom, grievance, harassment, heartache, heartbreak, infelicity, lamentation, lamenting, malaise, melancholy, misery, mortification, mournfulness, mourning, pain, purgatory, regret, remorse, repining, rue, sadness, sorrow, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | delight, ecstasy, exhilaration, happiness |
| Main Entry: | lament/lamentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grief, complaint |
| Synonyms: | complaining, dirge, elegy, grieving, jeremiad, keen, keening, lament, moan, moaning, mourning, plaint, requiem, sob, sobbing, sorrow, tears, threnody, ululation, wail, wailing, weeping |
| Antonyms: | celebration, enjoyment, praise |
| 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: | sorrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme upset, grief |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, bad news, big trouble, blow, blues, care, catastrophe, dejection, depression, distress, dolor, grieving, hardship, heartache, heartbreak, lamenting, melancholy, misery, misfortune, mourning, pain, rain*, regret, remorse, repentance, rue, sadness, suffering, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, weeping, woe, worry, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | happiness, joy, relief |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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