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weighed down

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Main Entry: weigh down
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: depress

Synonyms:

bear down, burden, cumber, get down, hold down, oppress, overburden, overload, press, press down, prey on, pull down, sadden, task, trouble, weigh upon, weight, worry

Antonyms:

cheer, delight, please
Main Entry: bear down
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: close in on

Synonyms:

advance on, approach, converge on, near, press, weigh down
Main Entry: burden
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: encumber, strain

Synonyms:

afflict, bear down on, bother, crush, cumber, depress, dish it out, dish out, dump on, encumber, give it to, hamper, handicap, hinder, impede, lade, load, make heavy, obligate, oppress, overcharge, overload, overwhelm, pile, press, saddle with, snow under, snow*, stick it to, strain, tax, trouble, try, vex, weigh down, worry

Antonyms:

aid, help, relieve
Main Entry: depress
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deject, make despondent; exhaust

Synonyms:

abase, afflict, ail, bear down, beat, beat down, bother, bug*, bum out, cast down, chill*, cow*, damp, dampen, darken, daunt, debase, debilitate, degrade, desolate, devitalize, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, distress, disturb, drag*, drain, dull, enervate, faze, keep under, lower, mock, mortify, oppress, perturb, press, put down*, reduce, reduce to tears, run down, sadden, sap*, scorn, slow, throw cold water on, torment, trouble, try, turn one off, upset, weaken, weary, weigh down

Antonyms:

cheer, comfort, encourage, excite, lift, make happy, stimulate
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: downcast
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: depressed, unhappy

Synonyms:

bad, blue, brooding, bummed out, cast down, chapfallen, cheerless, crestfallen, daunted, dejected, despondent, disappointed, disconsolate, discouraged, disheartened, dismayed, dispirited, distressed, doleful, down, down in the dumps, down-in-the-mouth, downhearted, dragged, droopy, dull, forlorn, gloomy, glum, heartsick, in pain, listless, low, low-spirited, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, oppressed, sad, shot down, singing the blues, sunk, troubled, weighed down, woebegone

Antonyms:

cheerful, elated, glad, happy, heartened, satisfied
Main Entry: encumber
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bother, burden

Synonyms:

block, charge, clog, cramp, discommode, embarrass, hamper, handicap, hang up, hinder, hog-tie, hold up, impede, incommode, inconvenience, lade, load, make difficult, obstruct, oppress, overburden, overload, retard, saddle, saddle with, slow down, tax, trammel, weigh down, weight

Antonyms:

aid, assist, help
Main Entry: forlorn
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hopeless, inconsolable

Synonyms:

abandoned, alone, bereft, blue*, cheerless, comfortless, cynical, defenseless, depressed, deserted, desolate, despairing, desperate, despondent, destitute, destroyed, disconsolate, down and out, dragging, forgotten, forsaken, friendless, fruitless, futile, godforsaken, helpless, homeless, in the dumps, lonely, lonesome, lost, miserable, oppressed, pathetic, pessimistic, pitiable, pitiful, solitary, tragic, unhappy, vain, weighed down, woebegone, wretched
Notes: lonely adds to solitary a suggestion of longing for companionship, while lonesome heightens the suggestion of sadness; forlorn and desolate are even more isolated and sad

Antonyms:

cheerful, comforted, consolable, happy, hopeful, joyful, pleased
Main Entry: laden
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: loaded down

Synonyms:

burdened, charged, encumbered, fraught, full, hampered, oppressed, taxed, weighed down, weighted

Antonyms:

empty, light, unladen, unloaded
Main Entry: load
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: burden, saddle

Synonyms:

arrange, ballast, bear, carry, charge, chock, choke, containerize, cram, fill, flood, freight, glut, gorge, heap, heap up, jam*, lade, lumber, mass, oversupply, pack, pile, pile it on, pile up, place, pour in, put aboard, ram in, stack, store, stow, stuff, surfeit, swamp, top, top off, weigh, weigh down, weight

Antonyms:

aid, assist, benefit, bless, help
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