CELEBRATIVE Antonyms

• lower than previously

• flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• being or moving lower in position or less in some value

• soft fine feathers

• English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

• (American football) a complete play to advance the football

• (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

• fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

• spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

• away from a more central or a more northerly place

• paid in cash at time of purchase

• from an earlier time

• to a lower intensity

• in an inactive or inoperative state

• extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

• becoming progressively lower

• being put out in a game of baseball

• understood perfectly

• lower than previously

• shut

• not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• drink down entirely

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• bring down or defeat (an opponent)

• shoot at and force to come down

• cause to come or go down

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

• a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine

• directed downward

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• marked by or showing hopelessness

• depressingly dark

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• not experiencing or inspiring joy

• someone subject to melancholia

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• 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

• expressing sorrow

• filled with or evoking sadness

• expecting the worst possible outcome

• concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities

• completely lacking in playfulness

• of great consequence

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• appealing to the mind

• requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve

• dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

• characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions

• lacking brightness or color; dull

• grave or even gloomy in character

• experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss

• in a softened tone

• restrained in style or quality

• quieted and brought under control

• not brilliant or glaring

• lacking in light; not bright or harsh

• of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy

• very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction