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Synonyms for mournfulness
noun gloom- anguish
- bitterness
- blues
- catatonia
- chagrin
- cheerlessness
- 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
- blue devils
- blue funk
- dismals
- heavy-heartedness
- low spirits
- saturninity
Antonyms for mournfulness
- advantage
- benefit
- cheer
- cheerfulness
- comfort
- confidence
- contentment
- delight
- encouragement
- gladness
- happiness
- hopefulness
- joy
- joyfulness
- miracle
- pleasure
- trust
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
despondence
noun. sadness
downheartedness
noun. gloom
grief
noun. mental suffering
- affliction
- agony
- anguish
- bemoaning
- bereavement
- bewailing
- care
- dejection
- deploring
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- despondency
- discomfort
- disquiet
- distress
- dole
- dolor
- gloom
- grievance
- harassment
- heartache
- heartbreak
- infelicity
- lamentation
- lamenting
- malaise
- melancholy
- misery
- mortification
- mournfulness
- mourning
- pain
- purgatory
- regret
- remorse
- repining
- rue
- sadness
- sorrow
- torture
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unhappiness
- vexation
- woe
- worry
- wretchedness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.