dolefulness
11doleful — adjective Date: 13th century 1. causing grief or affliction < a doleful loss > 2. full of grief ; cheerless < a doleful face > 3. expressing grief ; sad < a doleful melody > • …
12doleful — dolefully, adv. dolefulness, n. /dohl feuhl/, adj. sorrowful; mournful; melancholy: a doleful look on her face. [1225 75; ME dol ful. See DOLE2, FUL] * * * …
13Nikulin, Yury — ▪ 1998 Russian circus clown and comic actor (b. Dec. 18, 1921, Smolensk, Russian S.F.S.R. d. Aug. 21, 1997, Moscow, Russia), captured the hearts of millions around the globe, but especially in his native land, with his portrayal of a… …
14depression — I noun debasement, decline, deflation, dejection, depreciation, despondence, despondency, disheartenment, dispiritedness, dolefulness, economic decline, gloom, lowering, lowness, maeror, sinking, slump, tristitia associated concepts: economic… …
15pessimism — I noun blighted hope, cheerlessness, cynicism, dashed hopes, defeatism, dejectedness, dejection, depression, despair, desperation, despondence, despondency, disconsolation, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, dolefulness, downcastness …
16blues — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. melancholy, despondency. See dejection. II (Roget s IV) pl.n. 1. [A state of despondency; often with the] Syn. depressed spirits, heaviness of heart, melancholy, dejection; see gloom 2 . 2. [Rhythmic… …
17dejection — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Sadness Nouns 1. dejection, dejectedness, depression; lowness or depression of spirits; weight or damp on the spirits; low, bad, drooping, or depressed spirits; sinking heart, heaviness of heart;… …
18doldrums — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. pl. lull, calm; depression, despondency, dejection; blues, dumps. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. listlessness, depression, *blahs, malaise, boredom, *blues, *dumps, *blue funk, slump, torpor, tedium …
19gloom — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. dejection, sadness, dole fulness, melancholy; shadow, shade, dimness, darkness, obscurity; pessimism. Ant., cheerfulness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Heavy shade] Syn. shadow, murk, dimness, dark; see… …
20melancholy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. dejected, dispirited, sad, depressed, blue (inf.). See dejection. Ant., happy. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Sad; said of persons ] Syn. depressed, unhappy, dispirited; see sad 1 . 2. [Depressing; said …
