N. dejection,
dejectedness, depression, prosternation|, lowness of spirits, depression of spirits, weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits, low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits, heart sinking, heaviness of heart, failure of heart,
heaviness,
infestivity,
gloom,
weariness, taedium vitae, disgust of life, mal du pays, anhedonia,
melancholy,
sadness, il penseroso,
melancholia, dismals, blues, lachrymals,
mumps, dumps, blue devils,
doldrums, vapors, megrims,
spleen, horrors,
hypochondriasis,
pessimism, la maladie sans maladie,
despondency, slough of despond,
disconsolateness, hope deferred, blank despondency, voiceless woe, prostration of soul, broken heart,
despair, cave of despair, cave of trophonius demureness, gravity,
solemnity, long face, grave face,
hypochondriac, seek sorrow,
self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos, malade imaginaire, medecin tant pis,
croaker,
pessimist,
mope,
mopus,
affliction, sorry sight, memento mori, damper, wet blanket, job's comforter
V. be dejected,
grieve,
mourn, take on, give way, lose heart,
despond,
droop, sink, lower, look downcast,
frown,
pout, hang down the head, pull a long face, make a long face, laugh on the wrong side of the mouth, grin a ghastly smile, look blue, look like a drowned man, lay to heart, take to heart,
mope, brood over,
fret,
sulk, pine, pine away,
yearn, repine,
despair, refrain from laughter, keep one's countenance, be grave, look grave, repress a smile,
depress, discourage,
dishearten,
dispirit, damp, dull,
deject, lower, sink,
dash, knock down, unman,
prostrate, break one's heart, frown upon, cast a gloom, cast a shade on,
sadden, damp one's hopes, dash one's hopes, wither one's hopes, weigh on the mind, lie heavy on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the spirits, prey on the spirits, damp the spirits, depress the spirits
Adj. cheerless, joyless, spiritless,
uncheerful,
uncheery, unlively, unhappy,
melancholy,
dismal,
somber, dark,
gloomy,
triste, clouded,
murky, lowering,
frowning,
lugubrious,
funereal,
mournful,
lamentable,
dreadful,
dreary, flat, dull, dull as a beetle, dull as ditchwater,
depressing, "melancholy as a gib cat", oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy,
downcast,
downhearted, down in the mouth, down in one's luck, heavy-hearted, in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums, in doleful dumps, in bad humor,
sullen,
mumpish,
dumpish,
mopish,
moping,
moody,
glum,
sulky, out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits, ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low,
weary, discouraged,
disheartened,
desponding,
chapfallen,
chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen,
sad,
pensive, penseroso, tristful,
dolesome,
doleful, woebegone,
lacrymose,
lachrymose, in tears,
melancholic, hypped,
hypochondriacal,
bilious,
jaundiced,
atrabilious,
saturnine,
splenetic,
lackadaisical, serious,
sedate,
staid, stayed, grave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard pot,
sober, sober as a judge, solemn,
demure,
grim,
grim-faced,
grim-visaged,
rueful,
wan, long-faced,
disconsolate, unconsolable,
inconsolable,
forlorn, comfortless,
desolate, desole, sick at heart, soul sick, heart sick, au desespoir, in despair, lost, overcome, broken down, borne down, bowed down,
heartstricken, cut up,
dashed, sunk, unnerved,
unmanned, down fallen,
downtrodden,
broken-hearted,
careworn Adv. with a long face, with tears in one's eyes,
sadly Phr. the countenance falling, the heart failing, the heart sinking within one, "a plague of sighing and grief", "thick-ey'd musing and curs'd melancholy", "the sickening pang of hope deferred"
N. resentment, displeasure,
animosity, anger, wrath,
indignation,
exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation,
pique,
umbrage,
huff,
miff,
soreness,
dudgeon,
acerbity,
virulence, bitterness,
acrimony,
asperity,
spleen, gall,
heart-burning, heart- swelling,
rankling, ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad temper,
irascibility, ill blood,
revenge, excitement,
irritation,
warmth,
bile,
choler,
ire,
fume,
pucker,
dander,
ferment,
ebullition, towering passion,
acharnement, angry mood, taking,
pet,
tiff, passion, fit, tantrums,
burst,
explosion,
paroxysm, storm,
rage,
fury,
desperation, violence, fire and fury, vials of wrath, gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words,
scowl,
sulks,
affront,
provocation,
offense, indignity,
grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli, ill turn,
outrage,
furies,
eumenides,
buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles
V. resent, take amiss, take ill, take to heart, take offense, take umbrage, take huff, take exception, take in ill part, take in bad part, take in dudgeon, ne pas entendre raillerie, breathe revenge, cut up rough, fly into a rage, fall into a rage, get into a rage, fly into a passion, bridle up, bristle up, froth up, fire up, flare up, open the vials of one's wrath, pour out the vials of one's wrath,
pout, knit the brow,
frown,
scowl, lower,
snarl,
growl,
gnarl,
gnash,
snap,
redden, color, look black, look black as thunder, look daggers, bite one's thumb, show one's teeth, grind one's teeth, champ the bit, champ at the bit,
chafe,
mantle,
fume,
kindle, fly out, take fire,
boil, boil over, boil with indignation, boil with rage,
rage, storm,
foam, vent one's rage, vent one's spleen, lose one's temper, stand on one's hind legs, stamp the foot, stamp with rage, quiver with rage, swell with rage, foam with rage, burst with anger, raise cain, have a fling at, bear malice, cause anger, raise anger,
affront,
offend, give offense, give umbrage, anger, hurt the feelings,
insult,
discompose,
fret,
ruffle,
nettle,
huff,
pique, excite,
irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile,
sting, sting to the quick,
rile,
provoke,
chafe, wound, incense, inflame,
enrage,
aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach,
envenom,
embitter,
exasperate,
infuriate, kindle wrath, stick in one's gizzard, rankle &e, 919, hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw, put out of countenance, put out of humor, put one's monkey up, put one's back up, raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler, work up into a passion, make one's blood boil, make the ears tingle, throw, into a ferment,
madden, drive one mad, lash into fury, lash into madness, fool to the top of one's bent, set by the ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears
Adj. angry, wrath,
irate,
ireful, wrathful, cross,
achillean,
sulky,
&c. 901a, bitter,
virulent, acrimonious &c. (discourteous), violent, warm, burning, boiling, boiling over,
fuming,
raging,
foaming, foaming at the mouth, convulsed with rage,
offended,
waxy, acharne, wrought, worked up,
indignant,
hurt,
sore, set against, fierce, wild,
rageful,
furious, mad with rage,
fiery,
infuriate,
rabid, savage, relentless, flushed with anger, flushed with rage, in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way, on one's high ropes, up in arms, in high dudgeon
Adv. angrily, in the height of passion, in the heat of passion, in the heat of the moment
Int. tantaene animis coelestibus irae, marry come up,
zounds,
'sdeath, phr, one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up, fervens difficili bile jecur, the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire, the blood rising, the blood boiling, haeret lateri lethalis arundo, "beware the fury of a patient man", furor arma ministrat, ira furor brevis est, quem jupiter vult perdere dementat prius, "what, drunk with choler?"
N. sullenness,
morosity,
spleen,
churlishness,
irascibility,
moodiness,
perversity,
obstinacy, torvity|,
spinosity,
crabbedness, ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor,
sulks,
dudgeon,
mumps, dumps,
doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie, black looks,
scowl, grouch,
huff Adj. sullen,
sulky,
ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill- disposed,
grouty, in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor, out of temper, out of humor,
knaggy,
torvous,
crusty,
crabbed,
sour, sour as a crab, surly,
moody,
spleenish, spleenly,
splenetic,
cankered, cross,
crossgrained,
perverse,
wayward,
humorsome, restiff, restive,
cantankerous, intractable,
exceptious,
sinistrous, deaf to reason,
unaccommodating,
rusty,
froward, cussed,
dogged,
grumpy,
glum,
grim,
grum,
morose,
frumpish, in the sulks, out of sorts,
scowling,
glowering,
growling, grouchy,
peevish