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HAPPINESS Antonyms

There are 18 antonyms of the word happiness. (opposite meanings)
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sadness
nounn
noun

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

• the state of being sad

• the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

suffering
nounn
noun

• a state of acute pain

• misery resulting from affliction

• psychological suffering

• feelings of mental or physical pain

adjective satellite

• troubled by pain or loss

• very unhappy; full of misery

agony
nounn
noun

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

• a state of acute pain

anguish
nounn
noun

• extreme mental distress

• extreme distress of body or mind

verb

• suffer great pains or distress

• cause emotional anguish or make miserable

dejection
nounn
noun

• a state of melancholy depression

• solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

depression
nounn
noun

• 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

desolation
nounn
noun

• 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

despair
nounn
noun

• a state in which all hope is lost or absent

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

verb

• abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart

dismay
verbv
noun

• the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles

• fear resulting from the awareness of danger

verb

• lower someone's spirits; make downhearted

• fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised

gloom
nounn
noun

• a state of partial or total darkness

• a feeling of melancholy apprehension

• an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

grief
nounn
noun

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

• something that causes great unhappiness

heartache
nounn
noun

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

melancholy
noun, adjectiven, adj
noun

• 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

adjective satellite

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• grave or even gloomy in character

misery
nounn
noun

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

• a feeling of intense unhappiness

sorrow
nounn
noun

• 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

verb

• feel grief

wretchedness
nounn
noun

• 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

unhappiness
nounn
noun

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

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

haplessness
nounn
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