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| Main Entry: | sad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy, depressed |
| Synonyms: | bitter, blue*, cheerless, dejected, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, down, downcast, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, heartbroken, heartsick, heavyhearted, languishing, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, melancholy, morbid, morose, mournful, out of sorts*, pensive, pessimistic, somber, sorrowful, sorry, troubled, weeping, wistful, woebegone, bereaved, down in dumps, down in mouth, grieved, hurting, in doldrums, in grief, in the dumps, sick at heart |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, glad, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, distressing |
| Synonyms: | bad, calamitous, dark, deplorable, depressing, disastrous, discouraging, dismal, dreary, funereal, grave, grievous, hapless, joyless, lachrymose, lamentable, lugubrious, miserable, moving, oppressive, pathetic, pitiful, poignant, regrettable, serious, shabby, sorry, tearful, tragic, unhappy, unsatisfactory, wretched, dejecting, discomposing, disheartening, dispiriting, heart-rending, melancholic, pitiable, saddening, tear-jerking, upsetting |
| Antonyms: | fortunate, great, happy, lucky |
| Main Entry: | cabin fever |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxiety caused by living in isolation or indoors for a long period of time |
| Synonyms: | SAD, distress, neurosis, restlessness, seasonal affective disorder, claustrophobia, climbing the walls, climbing the walls, temporary insanity, winter blues |
| Main Entry: | cheerless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressing, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | austere, black, bleak, blue, dark, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dolorous, drab, dreary, dull, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, grim, jarring, joyless, melancholy, miserable, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, sorrowful, sullen, uncomfortable, wintry, woebegone, woeful, comfortless, dejecting, dispiriting, draggy, drearisome, in the dumps, mopey, tenebrific |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, uplifting |
| Main Entry: | contemptible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | despicable, shameful |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abject, abominable, bad, base, beggarly, cheap, crass, degenerate, detestable, dirty, disgusting, hateful, heel, ignoble, ignominious, inferior, low, lowest, mean, odious, outcast, paltry, pitiful, poor, sad, shabby, sordid, sorry*, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched, currish, despisable, low-down*, pitiable, scummy, scurvy, swinish |
| Notes: | contemptible means deserving contempt, while contemptuous means bestowing contempt; the first sense of contemptuous was 'despising law and order' |
| Antonyms: | admirable, good, honorable, loved, respectable, worthy, admired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crestfallen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disappointed |
| Synonyms: | blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, discouraged, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, inconsolable, low, sad, ass in a sling, cast down, chapfallen, disheartened, down in the dumps, in a funk, singing the blues, taken down |
| Antonyms: | elated, encouraged, excited, happy, cheered, hearted, inspirited |
| Main Entry: | dejected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, blue |
| Synonyms: | abject, black, bleak, cheerless, crestfallen, despondent, disconsolate, discouraged, dismal, dispirited, doleful, down, down in the mouth*, downcast, downhearted, drooping, droopy, gloomy, glum, heavyhearted, low, low-spirited, melancholy, miserable, moody, morose, sad, spiritless, woebegone, wretched, all torn up, atrabilious, broody, bummed out, cast down, clouded, dampened, dashed, disheartened, down in the dumps, dragged, hurting, in the pits, mopey, mopish, sagging, shot down |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, encouraged, happy, joyous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deplorable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, shameful |
| Synonyms: | awful, blameworthy, bummer*, calamitous, dire, dirty, disastrous, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, distressing, dolorous, downer*, dreadful, execrable, faulty, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, heartrending, intolerable, lamentable, lousy, melancholy, miserable, mournful, opprobrious, overwhelming, poor, regrettable, reprehensible, rotten, sad, scandalous, sickening, stinking, terrible, tragic, unbearable, unsatisfactory, woeful, wretched, afflictive, godawful, horrifying, pitiable |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, delightful, excellent, good, happy, shameless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | depressing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | discouraging, upsetting |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, dismal, distressing, dreary, funereal, gloomy, heartbreaking, hopeless, joyless, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, daunting, dejecting, disheartening, dispiriting, melancholic, saddening |
| Antonyms: | cheering, encouraging, happy |
| 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: | despondent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed |
| Synonyms: | blue*, dejected, despairing, disconsolate, discouraged, dispirited, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, gloomy, glum, hopeless, low, low-spirited, melancholy, miserable, morose, mourning, sad, sorrowful, woebegone, wretched, all torn up, bummed-out, cast-down, disheartened, griefstricken, grieving, in a blue funk, in despair, in the pits, shot down |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, elated, happy, hopeful, spirited, up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disconsolate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | bad, black, blue, cheerless, cold, crestfallen, dark, dejected, desolate, despairing, destroyed, dispirited, distressed, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, dreary, forlorn, gloomy, grief-stricken, heartbroken, hopeless, inconsolable, low, melancholy, miserable, sad, somber, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful, wretched, comfortless, crushed, hurting, in pain, in the pits, ripped, torn-up |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, consoled, solaced, soothed |
| Main Entry: | discouraged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disheartened |
| Synonyms: | beat, blue, crestfallen, depressed, dispirited, down, downbeat, downcast, glum*, pessimistic, sad, beat-down, caved-in, come-apart, dashed, daunted, deterred, dismayed, down-in-mouth, gone to pieces, in a funk, in blue funk, in the dumps, lost momentum |
| Antonyms: | encouraged, inspired, heartened |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dismal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleak, dreary, gloomy |
| Synonyms: | black, boring, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dim, dingy, disagreeable, discouraging, doleful, dolorous, dull, forlorn, frowning, funereal, ghastly, gruesome, hopeless, horrible, inauspicious, joyless, lonesome, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, monotonous, morbid, murky, oppressive, overcast, sad, shadowy, somber, sorrowful, tedious, tenebrous, troublesome, unfortunate, unhappy, afflictive, disheartening, dispiriting, horrid, in the pits |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, glad, happy, hopeful, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | doleful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressing |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, dismal, dispirited, distressing, dolorous, down, down in the mouth*, downcast, downhearted, dreary, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, painful, piteous, pitiful, plaintive, rueful, sad, somber, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful, wretched, cast down, dirgeful, dolent, grieving |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, elated, glad, gleeful, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dolorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | miserable, anguished |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, calamitous, deplorable, dire, distressing, doleful, grievous, harrowing, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, painful, plaintive, regrettable, rueful, sad, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful, wretched, afflictive, dolent, dolesome, dolorific, heart-rending, ruthful |
| Antonyms: | cheery, happy, hopeful |
| Main Entry: | downcast |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | bad, blue, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, despondent, disappointed, disconsolate, discouraged, dispirited, distressed, doleful, down, downhearted, droopy, dull, forlorn, gloomy, glum, heartsick, listless, low, low-spirited, miserable, moody, morose, oppressed, sad, troubled, woebegone, brooding, bummed out, cast down, chapfallen, daunted, disheartened, dismayed, down in the dumps, down-in-the-mouth, dragged, in pain, mopey, shot down, singing the blues, sunk, weighed down |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, elated, glad, happy, satisfied, heartened |
| Main Entry: | downhearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | blue*, crestfallen, dejected, despondent, disconsolate, discouraged, dispirited, down, downcast, low, low-spirited, sad, sorrowful, spiritless, woebegone, chapfallen, disheartened, dismayed |
| Antonyms: | happy, cheered, heartened, uplifted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dreary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, lifeless |
| Synonyms: | black, blah, bleak, boring, cheerless, colorless, damp, depressing, dingy, dismal, doleful, downcast, drab, dull, forlorn, funereal, glum, humdrum, joyless, lonely, lonesome, melancholy, monotonous, mournful, oppressive, pedestrian, raw, routine, sad, somber, sorrowful, tedious, uneventful, uninteresting, wearisome, windy, wintry, wretched, comfortless, depressive, dispiriting |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, happy, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | elegiac |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lamenting |
| Synonyms: | doleful, funereal, melancholy, mournful, sad, sorrowful, threnodial |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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