WEEPINESS Synonyms

• the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)

• demanding attention

• conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

• 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

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

• a feeling of intense unhappiness

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

• the state of being sad

• the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

• convulsive gasp made while weeping