mournfulness
41poignancy — Synonyms and related words: acerbity, acidity, acidulousness, acridity, acrimony, asperity, astringency, bite, bitingness, bitterness, bleakness, causticity, cheerlessness, comfortlessness, cuttingness, dash, depression, discomfort, dismalness,… …
42regret — Synonyms and related words: abject apology, acknowledgment, affliction, anguish, apologies, apology, attrition, ayenbite of inwit, be sorry for, bemoan, bewail, bitterness, breast beating, care, compunction, confession, contriteness, contrition,… …
43sadness — Synonyms and related words: aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, bale, beggarliness, bitterness, blackishness, bleakness, bleeding heart, blue devils, blues, broken heart, cheapness, cheerlessness, comfortlessness, contemptibleness,… …
44sharpness — Synonyms and related words: Italian hand, abruptness, absolute zero, acerbity, acidity, acidness, acidulousness, acridity, acridness, acrimony, acuity, acuteness, adroitness, aggressiveness, agility, alacrity, alertness, algidity, animality,… …
45blues — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. melancholy, despondency. See dejection. II (Roget s IV) pl.n. 1. [A state of despondency; often with the] Syn. depressed spirits, heaviness of heart, melancholy, dejection; see gloom 2 . 2. [Rhythmic… …
46dejection — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Sadness Nouns 1. dejection, dejectedness, depression; lowness or depression of spirits; weight or damp on the spirits; low, bad, drooping, or depressed spirits; sinking heart, heaviness of heart;… …
47depression — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. recession, slowdown. II Pressing downward Nouns 1. depression, lowering; dip (see concavity); abasement, debasement; reduction. 2. overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion,… …
48doldrums — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. pl. lull, calm; depression, despondency, dejection; blues, dumps. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. listlessness, depression, *blahs, malaise, boredom, *blues, *dumps, *blue funk, slump, torpor, tedium …
49gloom — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. dejection, sadness, dole fulness, melancholy; shadow, shade, dimness, darkness, obscurity; pessimism. Ant., cheerfulness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Heavy shade] Syn. shadow, murk, dimness, dark; see… …
50melancholy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. dejected, dispirited, sad, depressed, blue (inf.). See dejection. Ant., happy. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Sad; said of persons ] Syn. depressed, unhappy, dispirited; see sad 1 . 2. [Depressing; said …
