| Main Entry: | desperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hopelessness |
Synonyms: |
agony, anguish, anxiety, concern, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, disconsolateness, distraction, distress, fear, gloom, grief, heartache, melancholy, misery, pain, pang, sorrow, torture, trouble, unhappiness, worry |
Antonyms: |
confidence, contentment, security |
| Main Entry: | desperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rashness |
Synonyms: |
carelessness, defiance, foolhardiness, frenzy, heedlessness, impetuosity, madness, recklessness |
Antonyms: |
calm, cautiousness, collectedness, peace, peacefulness |
| Main Entry: | depression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | low spirits; despair |
Synonyms: |
abasement, abjection, abjectness, blahs, bleakness, blue funk, bummer, cheerlessness, dejection, desolation, desperation, despondency, disconsolation, discouragement, dispiritedness, distress, dole, dolefulness, dolor, downheartedness, dreariness, dullness, dumps, ennui, gloom, gloominess, heaviness of heart, heavyheartedness, hopelessness, lowness, lugubriosity, melancholia, melancholy, misery, mortification, qualm, sadness, sorrow, the blues, trouble, unhappiness, vapors, woefulness, worry |
Antonyms: |
cheerfulness, encouragement, happiness, hope, hopefulness |
| Main Entry: | despair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression, hopelessness |
Synonyms: |
anguish, dashed hopes, dejection, desperation, despondency, discouragement, disheartenment, forlornness, gloom, melancholy, misery, ordeal, pain, sorrow, trial, tribulation, wretchedness |
Antonyms: |
cheer, cheerfulness, confidence, faith, happiness, hopefulness, joy, joyfulness, trust |
| Main Entry: | melancholy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression, sadness |
Synonyms: |
blahs, blue devils, blue funk, blues, boredom, bummer, dejection, despair, desperation, despondency, dismals, dolefuls, dolor, down trip, downer, dumps, ennui, funk, gloom, gloominess, grief, letdown, low spirits, miserableness, misery, mopes, mournfulness, pensiveness, sorrow, tedium, unhappiness, wistfulness, woe, wretchedness |
Antonyms: |
cheer, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | recklessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carelessness |
Synonyms: |
abandon, desperation, disregard, foolhardiness, temerity |
Antonyms: |
carefulness |
| Main Entry: | urgency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance |
Synonyms: |
criticality, desperation, exigency, imminence, importunity, incitement, insistence, instancy, necessity, need, pressure, seriousness, stress |
| Main Entry: | desperateness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | despair |
Synonyms: |
desperation, despond, despondence, despondency, discouragement, gloom, hopelessness |
| Main Entry: | despond |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | despair |
Synonyms: |
desperateness, desperation, despondence, despondency, discouragement, gloom, hopelessness |
| Main Entry: | despondence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sadness |
Synonyms: |
blues, dejection, depression, desperateness, desperation, despond, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, dolefulness, downheartedness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, hopelessness, melancholy, mournfulness, unhappiness |