MALAISE Synonyms

• 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

• feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable

• physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)

• embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you

• the trait of seeming ill at ease

• inability to rest or relax or be still

• the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)

• 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 tense and feeling pain

• an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress

• temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work

• used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress

• (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something

• labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on)

• lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

• exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

• a relaxed comfortable feeling

• oppressively still air

• a feeling of lack of interest or energy

• inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy

• a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)

• weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy

• inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy

• a feeling of lack of interest or energy

• inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy

• the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active

• a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay

• a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion

• inability to rest or relax or be still

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

• the state of being sad

• the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

• a flaw or weak point

• powerlessness revealed by an inability to act

• the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain

• the condition of being financially weak

• a penchant for something even though it might not be good for you

• temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work

• an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom

• a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)

• a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific

• sadness on thinking about the evils of the world

• socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner