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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep sadness |
| Synonyms: | desolation, emotion, feeling, passion, pitiableness, pitifulness, plaintiveness, poignance, poignancy, sentiment |
| Notes: | bathos is an abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace while pathos is a quality that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow |
| Antonyms: | cheer, glee, happiness, joy |
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| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a state of mind, often strong |
| Synonyms: | action, affection, appreciation, ardor, behavior, capacity, compassion, concern, cultivation, culture, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, emotion, empathy, faculty, fervor, fondness, heat, imagination, impression, intelligence, intensity, intuition, judgment, keenness, palpability, passion, pathos, pity, reaction, refinement, sensibility, sensitivity, sentiment, sentimentality, sharpness, spirit, sympathy, tangibility, taste, tenderness, understanding, warmth |
| Main Entry: | heavy heart |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sad heart |
| Synonyms: | aching heart, agony of mind, bathos, bleeding heart, broken heart, heartache, heaviness of heart, pathos |
| Main Entry: | sob story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard luck story |
| Synonyms: | emotional appeal, hardship tale, heartbreaker, human interest, maudlin plea, pathos, schmaltz, sentimentalism, tale of woe, tearjerker |
| Main Entry: | poignancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emotion |
| Synonyms: | feeling, pathos, sadness, sentimentality, unhappiness |
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| Main Entry: | descent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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deciduous, declivous, decurrent, decursive, defluous, demersal, descendent, descending, downgyred, labent, nodding to its fall, stillatitious
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| Concept: | [Motion downwards] Descent. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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-nouns
descent, descension, declension, declination; fall; falling: slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; titubation, stumble; fate of Icarus., avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide., declivity, dip, hill.
-verbs
descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump., dismount, alight, light, get down; swoop; stoop; fall prostrate, precipitate oneself; let fall., tumble, trip, stumble, titubate, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper.
-adjectives
descending; descendent; decurrent, decursive; labent, deciduous; nodding to its fall.
-adverbs
downhill, downwards.
-phrases
the bottom fell out.
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| Antonyms: | ascent |
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| Concept: | Feeling. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
feeling; suffering; endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response; sympathy (love); impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense., warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence; fervor, fervency; heartiness, cordiality; earnestness, eagerness; empressment, gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism; excitation of feeling; fullness of the heart (disposition); passion (state of excitability); ecstasy, ectasy (pleasure)., blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.
-verbs
feel; receive an impression; be impressed with; entertain feeling, harbor feeling, cherish feeling, respond; catch the flame, catch the infection; enter the spirit of., bear, suffer, support, sustain, endure, thole, aby; abide (be composed); experience (meet with); taste, prove; labor under, smart under; bear the brunt of, brave, stand., swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle; turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter; shake; be agitated, be excited [more]; look blue, look black; wince; draw a deep breath., impress (excite the feelings).
-adjectives
feeling; sentient; sensuous; sensorial, sensory; emotive, emotional; of feeling, with feeling, warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic., impressive, deep, profound, indelible; deep felt, home felt, heartfelt; swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic.
-adverbs
heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, ab imo pectore, at heart, con amore, heartily, devoutly, over head and ears.
-phrases
the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the
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