DOLEFULNESS Synonyms

• 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

• the state of being decayed or destroyed

• a bleak and desolate atmosphere

• sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned

• an event that results in total destruction

• a state in which all hope is lost or absent

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

• abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart

• a feeling of low spirits

• a feeling of low spirits

• 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 feeling of melancholy apprehension

• the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

• The property of having a frowning or scowling appearance.

• intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)

• 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

• a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

• a feeling of intense unhappiness

• a state of gloomy sorrow

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

• the state of being sad

• the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

• an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement

• sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

• something that causes great unhappiness

• the state of being sad

• feel grief

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

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

• a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

• the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant

• the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry