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| Main Entry: | sorrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme upset, grief |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, bad news*, blow, blues*, care, catastrophe, dejection, depression, distress, dolor, hardship, heartache, heartbreak, lamenting, melancholy, misery, misfortune, mourning, pain, rain*, regret, remorse, repentance, rue, sadness, suffering, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, weeping, woe, worry, wretchedness, big trouble, grieving |
| Antonyms: | happiness, joy, relief |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sorrow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be very upset, grieved |
| Synonyms: | agonize, bemoan, bewail, carry on, deplore, grieve, groan, lament, moan, mourn, regret, sob, take on*, weep, be sad, cry a river, eat heart out, hang crepe, sing the blues |
| Antonyms: | delight, relieve, be happy, be joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adversity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad luck, situation |
| Synonyms: | affliction, bummer*, calamity, can of worms*, catastrophe, clutch, contretemps, crunch*, difficulty, disaster, distress, downer*, drag*, evil eye*, hard knocks*, hardship, jam, jinx, kiss of death*, misery, misfortune, mishap, pain in the neck*, poison*, reverse, sorrow, suffering, trial, trouble, bad break, hard times, hurting, ill fortune, on the skids, the worst, tough luck |
| Antonyms: | aid, encouragement, favor, fortune, good luck, help, prosperity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affliction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hurt condition; something that causes hurt |
| Synonyms: | adversity, anguish, calamity, cross, crux, depression, difficulty, disease, disorder, distress, grief, hardship, illness, infirmity, misery, misfortune, ordeal, pain, plague, plight, scourge, sickness, sorrow, suffering, torment, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe |
| Antonyms: | aid, comfort, consolation, health, help, relief |
| Main Entry: | anguish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severe upset or pain |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, distress, dole, dolor, grief, heartache, heartbreak, misery, pang, rue, sorrow, suffering, throe, torment, torture, woe, wretchedness, hurting |
| Antonyms: | comfort, contentment, happiness, joy, solace, joyfulness |
| Main Entry: | bereavement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death; loss |
| Synonyms: | affliction, deprivation, distress, misfortune, sorrow, tribulation |
| Main Entry: | burden |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental weight; stress |
| Synonyms: | Herculean task, accountability, affliction, albatross*, anxiety, ball and chain, blame, care, charge, clog, concern, deadweight, difficulty, duty, encumbrance, excess baggage, grievance, hardship, hindrance, load, millstone, misfortune, mishap, obstruction, onus, punishment, responsibility, sorrow, strain, task, tax, thorn in one's side, trial, trouble, weary load, work, worry |
| Antonyms: | aid, help, relief |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal interest, concern |
| Synonyms: | affliction, aggravation, alarm, anguish, annoyance, anxiety, apprehension, bother, burden, chagrin, charge, consternation, dismay, disquiet, distress, disturbance, encumbrance, exasperation, fear, foreboding, handicap, hardship, hindrance, impediment, incubus, load, misgiving, nuisance, onus, oppression, pressure, responsibility, solicitude, sorrow, stew, strain, stress, sweat, tribulation, trouble, uneasiness, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry, discomposure, fretfulness, perplexity |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, disregard, ignorance, inattention, neglect, negligence, oversight, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | compassion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tender feeling |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, charity, clemency, commiseration, compunction, condolence, consideration, empathy, fellow feeling, grace, heart, humanity, kindness, mercy, softness, sorrow, sympathy, tenderness, yearning, humaneness, lenity, softheartedness, tenderheartedness |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, harshness, hatred, indifference, meanness, tyranny, mercilessness |
| Main Entry: | contrition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regret |
| Synonyms: | attrition, compunction, humiliation, penance, penitence, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, sorrow, contriteness, penitency, self-reproach |
| Antonyms: | indifference, meanness, hurtfulness |
| Main Entry: | cry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | weep and make sad sounds |
| Synonyms: | bawl, bemoan, bewail, blubber, caterwaul, choke up, complain, crack up*, deplore, fret, grieve, groan, howl, keen, lament, moan, mourn, regret, sigh, sniff, snivel, sob, sorrow, squall, wail, weep, whimper, whine, yammer, yowl, blub, boohoo*, break down, burst into tears, dissolve in tears, let go, let it all out, mewl, put on the weeps, ring the blues, shed bitter tears, shed tears, turn on waterworks |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | depression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | low spirits; despair |
| Synonyms: | abasement, blue funk, bummer, dejection, desolation, desperation, despondency, discouragement, distress, dole, dolor, dullness, dumps, ennui, gloom, melancholy, misery, mortification, qualm, sadness, sorrow, trouble, unhappiness, worry, abjection, abjectness, blahs, bleakness, cheerlessness, disconsolation, dispiritedness, dolefulness, downheartedness, dreariness, gloominess, heaviness of heart, heavyheartedness, hopelessness, lowness, lugubriosity, melancholia, the blues, vapors, woefulness |
| Antonyms: | cheerfulness, encouragement, happiness, hope, hopefulness |
| Main Entry: | desolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distress, unhappiness |
| Synonyms: | anguish, dejection, despair, gloom, loneliness, melancholy, misery, mourning, sadness, sorrow, woe, wretchedness, gloominess |
| Antonyms: | cheer, comfort, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | despair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression, hopelessness |
| Synonyms: | anguish, dejection, desperation, despondency, discouragement, gloom, melancholy, misery, ordeal, pain, sorrow, trial, tribulation, wretchedness, dashed hopes, disheartenment, forlornness |
| Antonyms: | cheer, cheerfulness, confidence, faith, happiness, joy, trust, hopefulness, joyfulness |
| Main Entry: | desperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hopelessness |
| Synonyms: | agony, anguish, anxiety, concern, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, distraction, distress, fear, gloom, grief, heartache, melancholy, misery, pain, pang, sorrow, torture, trouble, unhappiness, worry, disconsolateness |
| Antonyms: | confidence, contentment, security |
| Main Entry: | distress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pain, agony |
| Synonyms: | ache, affliction, anguish, anxiety, bad news*, blues*, care, concern, cross, dejection, desolation, disappointment, discomfort, disquietude, dolor, embarrassment, grief, headache, heartache, heartbreak, irritation, malaise, misery, mortification, ordeal, pang, sadness, shame, sorrow, stew, suffering, throe, torment, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, twinge, unhappiness, vexation, visitation, woe, worry, wretchedness, perplexity, unconsolability, worriment |
| Antonyms: | comfort, happiness, health, pleasure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dolor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misery, anguish |
| Synonyms: | agony, distress, grief, heartache, heartbreak, passion, ruth, sadness, sorrow, suffering |
| Antonyms: | cheer, happiness, hopefulness |
| Main Entry: | emotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental state |
| Synonyms: | affect, affection, agitation, anger, ardor, commotion, concern, desire, despair, despondency, disturbance, drive, ecstasy, elation, empathy, excitement, feeling, fervor, grief, gut reaction, happiness, inspiration, joy, love, melancholy, passion, perturbation, pride, rage, remorse, sadness, satisfaction, sensation, sensibility, sentiment, shame, sorrow, sympathy, thrill, tremor, vehemence, warmth, zeal, affectivity, excitability, responsiveness, sensitiveness, vibes |
| Antonyms: | physicality |
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | badness, immorality; disaster |
| Synonyms: | affliction, baseness, blow, calamity, catastrophe, corruption, crime, curse, debauchery, depravity, diablerie, harm, hatred, hurt, ill, impiety, indecency, infamy, iniquity, injury, lewdness, malevolence, meanness, mischief, misery, misfortune, obscenity, outrage, pain, ruin, sin, sorrow, suffering, turpitude, vice, villainy, wickedness, woe, wrong, wrongdoing, criminality, devilry, diabolism, heinousness, knavery, licentiousness, looseness, malignity, perversity, sinfulness, viciousness, vileness |
| Antonyms: | good, goodness, morality, virtue |
| Main Entry: | gloom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | melancholy, depression |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bitterness, blue devils, blue funk, blues*, chagrin, dejection, desolation, despair, despondency, discouragement, distress, doldrums, dolor, dullness, dumps*, foreboding, grief, heaviness, horror, malaise, misery, misgiving, mourning, oppression, pessimism, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, vexation, weariness, woe, catatonia, cheerlessness, disconsolateness, dismals, downheartedness, heavy-heartedness, low spirits, mopes, morbidity, pensiveness, saturninity |
| Antonyms: | animation, cheer, encouragement, happiness, joy, sparkle, contentedness, vivaciousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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