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  • 31heavy-heartedness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits: blues, dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, doldrums, dolefulness, down heartedness, dumps, dysphoria, funk, gloom, glumness, melancholy, mope (used in plural),… …

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  • 32mournfulness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits: blues, dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, doldrums, dolefulness, down heartedness, dumps, dysphoria, funk, gloom, glumness, heavy heartedness, melancholy, mope… …

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  • 33doleful — adjective 1》 sorrowful. 2》 causing grief or misfortune. Derivatives dolefully adverb dolefulness noun …

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  • 34depression — n. 1. Abasement, degradation, deterioration, debasement, perversion, vitiation, depravation. 2. Hollow, hollowness, cavity, concavity, indentation, dent, dint, dimple, excavation, pit. 3. Dejection, dejectedness, sadness, despondency, melancholy …

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  • 35sadness — n. 1. Sorrow, despondency, sorrowfulness, mournfulness, melancholy, depression, dejection. 2. Gloominess, mournfulness, heaviness, grief, sorrow, dolefulness. 3. Seriousness, sedateness, gravity …

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  • 36doleful — adjective very sad: a doleful song about lost love dolefully adverb dolefulness noun (U) …

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  • 37sadness — noun our sadness cannot be measured Syn: unhappiness, sorrow, dejection, depression, misery, despondency, despair, desolation, wretchedness, gloom, gloominess, dolefulness, melancholy, mournfulness, woe, heartache, grief; informal the blues …

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  • 38sorrow — 1. noun 1) he felt sorrow at her death Syn: sadness, unhappiness, misery, despondency, regret, depression, despair, desolation, dejection, wretchedness, gloom, dolefulness, melancholy, woe, heartache, grief; literary dolor …

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  • 39distress — n Distress, suffering, misery, agony, dolor, passion are comparable when denoting the state of one that is in great trouble or in pain of mind or body. Distress commonly implies conditions or circumstances that cause physical or mental stress or… …

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  • 40tirade — tirade, *diatribe, jeremiad, philippic can all mean a violent, often long winded, and usually denunciatory speech or writing. Tirade implies a swift emission of heated language, sometimes critical, sometimes abusive, but usually long continued… …

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