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41dejection — n disheartenment, dispiritedness, low spiritedness, downheartedness, low spirits, downcastness; discouragement, disappointment, crestfallenness, broken heartedness, heartsickness; unhappiness, cheerlessness, glumness, gloominess, dolefulness,… …
42desolation — n 1. destruction, ruination, holocaust, demolition, ruin, havoc; spoliation, despoliation, despoilment, ravage, pillage, plunder, sack; rapine, ravishment, predation, depredation; depopulation, unpeopling. 2. devastation, waste, wreckage,… …
43letdown — n 1. decrease, decline, declension, gradual loss; wane, ebb, reflux, fall, falling off, slowdown, depreciation, shrinkage; reduction, cutback, cutting down, retrenchment; curtailment, abridgment, shortening, dwindling; abatement, lessening, letup …
44moroseness — n sullenness, saturnineness, saturnity, morosity, somberness, soberness, austerity, severity, acerbity, taciturnity, silence; glumness, gloominess, grumness, grimness, bleakness, darkness, black looks; lugubriousness, atrabiliousness, morbidity,… …
45sadness — n 1. unhappiness, joylessness, cheerlessness, uncheerfulness; discouragement, disheartenment, downheartedness; dolefulness, grievousness, plaintiveness; gloominess, bleakness; sorrowfulness, wretchedness, miserableness, woefulness. 2. dejection,… …
46sullenness — n 1. crossness, angriness, anger; ill or bad temper, ill or bad humor, ill or bad mood, sulk, sulks. 2. sulkiness, moroseness, mumpishness, glumness, moodiness; resentfulness, bitterness, embitteredness; acrimoniousness, acerbity, choler, spleen …
47doleful — /ˈdoʊlfəl / (say dohlfuhl) adjective full of grief; sorrowful; gloomy. –dolefully, adverb –dolefulness, noun …
48depression — [n1] low spirits; despair abasement, abjection, abjectness, blahs*, bleakness, blue funk*, bummer, cheerlessness, dejection, desolation, desperation, despondency, disconsolation, discouragement, dispiritedness, distress, dole, dolefulness, dolor …
49sadness — [n] unhappiness, depression anguish, blahs*, bleakness, blue devils*, blue funk*, broken heart*, bummer, cheerlessness, dejection, despondency, disconsolateness, dismals*, dispiritedness, distress, dolefulness, dolor, downcastness, downer*,… …
50doleful — [dōl′səmdōl′fəl] adj. [ME dolful < dol, grief (< OFr doel < VL dolus, grief, pain < L dolere, to suffer < IE base * del , *dol , to split, cut) + ful, FUL] full of or causing sorrow or sadness; mournful; melancholy: also Rare… …
