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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | daydreaming, longing |
| Synonyms: | contemplative, desirous, disconsolate, dreaming, dreamy, forlorn, hopeless, meditative, melancholy, mournful, musing, nostalgic, pensive, plaintive, reflective, sad, thoughtful, wishful, yearning |
| Antonyms: | uncaring |
| Main Entry: | longing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desirous |
| Synonyms: | anxious, ardent, avid, craving, eager, hungry, languishing, pining, ravenous, wishful, wistful, yearning |
| Antonyms: | despising, hating, loathing |
| Main Entry: | melancholy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, sad |
| Synonyms: | blue*, dejected, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, doleful, dolorous, down and out, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, down*, downbeat, downcast, downhearted, dragged, droopy, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavyhearted, in blue funk, joyless, lachrymose, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, mirthless, miserable, moody, moony, mournful, pensive, saddened, saddening, somber, sorrowful, sorry*, torn up, trite, unhappy, wet blanket, wistful, woebegone, woeful |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nostalgic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | longingly remembering |
| Synonyms: | cornball, down memory lane, drippy, homesick, like yesterday, lonesome, longing, mushy, regretful, sappy*, sentimental, sloppy, syrupy, wistful, yearning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | passionate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sensual, desirous |
| Synonyms: | amorous, ardent, aroused, concupiscent, desirous, erotic, heavy*, hot*, lascivious, libidinous, loving, lustful, prurient, romantic, sexy, steamy, stimulated, sultry, turned-on, wanton, wistful |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, frigid, indifferent, uncaring, unpassionate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meditative, solemn |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, abstracted, attentive, cogitative, contemplative, dreamy, grave, musing, pondering, preoccupied, reflecting, reflective, ruminating, ruminative, serious, sober, speculative, thinking, thoughtful, wistful, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, shallow |
| Main Entry: | plaintive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pathetic, woebegone |
| Synonyms: | beefing, bellyaching, cantankerous, crabby, cranky*, disconsolate, doleful, grief-stricken, grievous, grousing, grumpy*, heartrending, lamenting, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, out of sorts, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, rueful, sad, saddening, sorrowful, wailing, wistful, woeful |
| Notes: | a plaintiff is the party who brings an action in a court of law, while plaintive means expressive of sorrow or melancholy |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | thoughtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemplative, introspective |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, analytical, attentive, brainy, calculating, cerebral, cogitative, deep, deliberative, discerning, earnest, engrossed, farsighted, grave, intellectual, intent, keen, levelheaded, logical, lost in thought, meditative, melancholy, museful, musing, pensive, philosophic, pondering, preoccupied, rapt, rational, reasonable, reasoning, reflecting, reflective, retrospective, ruminative, serious, sober, studious, subjective, thinking, wise, wistful |
| Antonyms: | idiotic, negligent, obtuse, remiss, stupid, thoughtless |
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