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. hopelessness,
despair,
desperation,
despondency, depression,
pessimism,
pessimist, job's comforter, bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen,
abandonment,
desolation,
resignation, surrender, submission, hope deferred, dashed hopes, vain expectation, airy hopes &c, forlorn hope, gone case, dead duck, gone coon*, goner*, bad job, bad business, enfant perdu, gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon, slough of despond, cave of despair, immedicabile vulnus
V. despair, lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope, relinquish all hope, lose the hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the hope of, relinquish the hope of, give up, give over, yield to despair,
falter,
despond, jeter le manche apres la cognee, inspire despair, drive to despair,
disconcert, dash one's hopes, crush one's hopes, destroy one's hopes, hope against hope,
abandon, resign, surrender, submit
Adj. hopeless,
desperate,
despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir,
forlorn,
desolate,
inconsolable, broken hearted, unpromising,
unpropitious,
inauspicious,
ill-omened,
threatening, clouded over, out of the question, not to be thought of, impracticable, past hope, past cure, past mending, past recall, at one's last gasp, given up, given over, incurable, cureless,
immedicable,
remediless, beyond remedy,
incorrigible,
irreparable,
irremediable,
irrecoverable,
irreversible,
irretrievable,
irreclaimable,
irredeemable,
irrevocable, ruined, undone,
immitigable Phr. "lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate", its days are numbered, the worst come to the worst, "no change, no pause, no hope, yet i endure", "o dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon", "mene mene tekel upharson"
N. seclusion,
privacy, retirement,
reclusion,
recess,
snugness,
delitescence,
rustication, rus in urbe,
solitude,
solitariness,
isolation,
loneliness, estrangement from the world, voluntary exile,
aloofness, cell,
hermitage, convent, sanctum sanctorum,
depopulation,
desertion,
desolation, wilderness, howling wilderness, rotten borough, old sarum,
exclusion,
excommunication,
banishment, exile,
ostracism,
proscription, cut, cut direct, dead cut,
inhospitality,
inhospitableness,
dissociability,
domesticity, darby and joan,
recluse,
hermit,
eremite,
cenobite,
anchoret,
anchorite, simon stylites,
troglodyte, timon of athens,
santon,
solitaire,
ruralist, disciple of zimmermann, closet cynic,
diogenes, outcast,
pariah,
castaway,
pilgarlic,
wastrel,
foundling, wilding
V. be secluded, live secluded, keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background, keep snug, shut oneself up, deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner,
rusticate, aller planter ses choux, retire, retire from the world, take the veil,
abandon, sport one's oak*, cut, cut dead, refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge, look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon,
repel,
blackball,
excommunicate,
exclude, exile,
expatriate,
banish, outlaw,
maroon,
ostracize,
proscribe, cut off from, send to coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round,
depopulate, dispeople, unpeople
Adj. secluded,
sequestered, retired,
delitescent, private,
bye, out of the world, out of the way, "the world forgetting by the world forgot",
snug, domestic, stay-at-home,
unsociable, unsocial, dissocial,
inhospitable,
cynical, inconversable|, unclubbable, sauvage,
troglodytic, solitary,
lonely,
lonesome, isolated, single,
estranged, unfrequented, uninhabitable, uninhabited, tenantless, abandoned, deserted, deserted in one's utmost need, unfriended, kithless, friendless, homeless,
lorn,
forlorn,
desolate, unvisited, unintroduced, uninvited,
unwelcome, under a cloud, left to shift for oneself,
derelict, outcast, banished
Phr. noli me tangere, "among them but not of them", "and homeless near a thousand homes i stood", far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, "makes a solitude and calls it peace", magna civitas magna solitudo, "never less alone than when alone", "o sacred solitude! divine retreat!"
