DISHEARTENMENT Synonyms

• the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles

• fear resulting from the awareness of danger

• lower someone's spirits; make downhearted

• fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised

• a state of melancholy depression

• solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

• a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

• a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

• a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

• a sunken or depressed geological formation

• sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

• an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation

• a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

• a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

• angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

• pushing down

• feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless

• a state of partial or total darkness

• a feeling of melancholy apprehension

• an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

• an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

• a gloomy ill-tempered feeling

• the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success

• a feeling of thoughtful sadness

• a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

• a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• grave or even gloomy in character

• emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being

• the state of being sad

• the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

• emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being

• state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief