GLEEFULNESS Antonyms

• 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

• feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless

• a state of partial or total darkness

• a feeling of melancholy apprehension

• an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

• 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

• 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