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cheerlessness
noun as in depression
Strong matches
- abasement
- abjection
- blahs
- bleakness
- bummer
- dejection
- desolation
- desperation
- despondency
- discouragement
- dispiritedness
- distress
- dole
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dreariness
- dullness
- dumps
- ennui
- gloom
- gloominess
- heavyheartedness
- hopelessness
- lowness
- melancholia
- melancholy
- misery
- mortification
- qualm
- sadness
- sorrow
- trouble
- unhappiness
- vapors
- woefulness
- worry
noun as in dumps
noun as in gloom
Strongest matches
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noun as in glumness
noun as in heavy-heartedness
noun as in mournfulness
Strong matches
- anguish
- bitterness
- blues
- catatonia
- chagrin
- dejection
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- despondence
- despondency
- disconsolateness
- discouragement
- distress
- doldrums
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dullness
- dumps
- dysphoria
- foreboding
- funk
- glumness
- grief
- heaviness
- horror
- malaise
- melancholy
- misery
- misgiving
- mope
- mopes
- morbidity
- mourning
- oppression
- pensiveness
- pessimism
- sadness
- sorrow
- unhappiness
- vexation
- weariness
- woe
noun as in sadness
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Example Sentences
Moved by his unexpected leniency and the aspect of his cheerlessness, she immediately repented of her response.
My feeling of cheerlessness was not dispelled even by the warmth and comfort of the little inn.
Consider the change from comfort in the country to circumstances of cheerlessness in the city.
Nothing could exceed the apparent barrenness of these plains, or the cheerlessness of the landscape.
They looked in at the open door and snorted at the cheerlessness of the place.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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