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dejected
adj. affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"
Fuzzynyms (61)
woeful
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
miserable, wretched
adj. very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
blue, heavyhearted, heavy-hearted
adj. depressed
discouraged, demoralized, disheartened
adj. made less hopeful or enthusiastic; "desperate demoralized people looking for work"; "felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem"; "the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest"
melancholy, melancholic
adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
desolate, forlorn, godforsaken, lorn, sad
adj. marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"
disconsolate, inconsolable, unconsolable
adj. sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died"
heartsick, brokenhearted, heartbroken
adj. full of sorrow
gloomy, dismal, sorry
adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
deadening, boring, dreary, tedious, ho-hum, irksome, tiresome, wearisome
adj. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
sorrowful
adj. experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13
grubby, begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy
adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
overcast, cloud-covered, clouded, sunless
adj. filled or abounding with clouds
desperate, forlorn
adj. "a hopeless attempt"
self-destructive, suicidal
adj. dangerous to yourself or your interests; "suicidal impulses"; "a suicidal corporate takeover strategy"; "a kamikaze pilot"
miserable, wretched, execrable, deplorable, woeful
adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
unhappy, saddening, doleful
adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
gloomy, funereal, sepulchral
adj. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"
woeful, mournful, woebegone
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
Synonyms (5)
distressed, dysphoric, unhappy
adj. generalized feeling of distress
unhappy, sad
adj. experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad"
Antonyms (1)
elated
adj. exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits; "the elated winner"; "felt elated and excited"
dejected
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