Thesaurus / in the dumps
other words for in the dumps
MOST RELEVANT
- bitter
- dismal
- heartbroken
- melancholy
- mournful
- pessimistic
- somber
- sorrowful
- sorry
- wistful
- bereaved
- blue
- cheerless
- dejected
- despairing
- despondent
- disconsolate
- distressed
- doleful
- down
- down in dumps
- down in mouth
- downcast
- forlorn
- gloomy
- glum
- grief-stricken
- grieved
- heartsick
- heavyhearted
- hurting
- in doldrums
- in grief
- languishing
- low
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- morbid
- morose
- out of sorts
- pensive
- sick at heart
- troubled
- weeping
- woebegone
opposites of in the dumps
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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!
The commander-in-chief still kept him attached to the headquarter staff, and constantly employed him on special service.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
So far Murat had always held subordinate commands; his great ambition was to become the commander-in-chief of an independent army.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
Their jurisdictions overlapped and the Gascon would play second fiddle to no one save to his great brother-in-law.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
You never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
But the novel disappeared under the clothes with amazing celerity as the voice of her sister-in-law demanded admission.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
Her sister-in-law pointed out to her that old Mr. Warrender had been very attentive lately.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
Mr. Slocum was not educated in a university, and his life has been in by-paths, and out-of-the-way places.
I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
WORDS RELATED TO IN THE DUMPS
- austere
- black
- bleak
- blue
- comfortless
- dark
- dejected
- depressed
- desolate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dispiriting
- dolorous
- drab
- draggy
- drearisome
- dreary
- dull
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- grim
- in the dumps
- jarring
- joyless
- melancholy
- miserable
- mopey
- mournful
- oppressive
- sad
- somber
- sorrowful
- sullen
- tenebrific
- uncomfortable
- wintry
- woebegone
- woeful
- bad
- bleeding
- blue
- bummed out
- cast-down
- crestfallen
- crummy
- dejected
- despondent
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- dispirited
- down
- down and out
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- dragged
- fed up
- glum
- grim
- hurting
- in a blue funk
- in pain
- in the dumps
- in the pits
- in the toilet
- let down
- low
- low-down
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- moody
- morose
- on a downer
- pessimistic
- ripped
- sad
- sob story
- spiritless
- taken down
- torn up
- unhappy
- weeping
- woebegone
- anxious
- blue
- brokenhearted
- cynical
- dejected
- depressed
- desperate
- disconsolate
- downcast
- forlorn
- frantic
- grief-stricken
- hopeless
- in pain
- in the dumps
- in the pits
- in the soup
- inconsolable
- melancholic
- melancholy
- miserable
- no-win
- not a prayer
- oppressed
- pessimistic
- sad
- shot down
- strabilious
- suicidal
- sunk
- weighed down
- wretched
- abandoned
- alone
- bereft
- blue
- cheerless
- comfortless
- cynical
- defenseless
- depressed
- deserted
- desolate
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- destitute
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- down and out
- dragging
- forgotten
- forsaken
- friendless
- fruitless
- futile
- godforsaken
- helpless
- homeless
- in the dumps
- lonely
- lonesome
- lost
- miserable
- oppressed
- pathetic
- pessimistic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- solitary
- tragic
- unhappy
- vain
- weighed down
- woebegone
- wretched
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