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n. a feeling of thoughtful sadness

n. a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"

despair

n. the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well

dolor, dolour

n. (poetry) painful grief

discouragement, disheartenment, dismay

n. the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles

sorrow

n. an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement; "he tried to express his sorrow at her loss"

pall, chill

n. a sudden numbing dread

oppression, oppressiveness

n. a feeling of being oppressed

dejected

adj. affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"

depressed, despairing, despondent, heartsick

adj. without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"

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"

down, downcast, low, depressed, dispirited, downhearted, low-spirited

adj. low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

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"

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

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"

low

adj. less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low"

lugubrious

adj. excessively mournful

dreary, disconsolate, drear, joyless

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"

sour, sullen, glum, moody, dour, glowering, morose, saturnine

adj. showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

temperamental

adj. relating to or caused by temperament; "temperamental indifference to neatness"; "temperamental peculiarities"

somber, sombre

adj. grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"

bittersweet

adj. tinged with sadness; "a movie with a bittersweet ending"

blue, heavyhearted, heavy-hearted

adj. depressed

depressive, gloomy, depressing, unhappy, saddening

adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"

pensive, wistful

adj. showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

tragic

adj. very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident"

tragicomic, tragicomical

adj. manifesting both tragic and comic aspects; "the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments"- B.R.Redman

yearning, wistful

adj. showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

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