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  • 91dejection — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Sadness Nouns 1. dejection, dejectedness, depression; lowness or depression of spirits; weight or damp on the spirits; low, bad, drooping, or depressed spirits; sinking heart, heaviness of heart;… …

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  • 92sad — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sorrowful, downcast, dejected, unhappy, woeful, woebegone, depressed, disconsolate, blue (inf.), down (inf.); melancholy, gloomy, cheerless, somber, dismal; heavy[ hearted]; regrettable, shameful.… …

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  • 93Dejection — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Dejection >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 dejection dejection Sgm: N 1 dejectedness dejectedness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 depression depression prosternation| Sgm: N 1 lowness of spirits lowness of spirits depression of… …

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  • 94atrocious — [17] Traced back to its ultimate source, atrocious meant something not too dissimilar to ‘having a black eye’. Latin āter was ‘black, dark’ (it occurs also in English atrabilious ‘melancholic’ [17] – Greek mélās meant ‘black’), and the stem * oc …

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  • 95atrabiliar — a.; (also atrabiliary) Melancholy. See atrabilious …

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  • 96melancholy — I. n. Dejection, depression, gloominess, sadness, gloom, despondency, hypochondria, blues, blue devils, dumps, vapors, low spirits, depression of spirits. II. a. 1. Dejected, dispirited, depressed, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, disconsolate, doleful,… …

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  • 97melancholy — 1. adjective a melancholy expression Syn: sad, sorrowful, unhappy, desolate, mournful, lugubrious, gloomy, despondent, dejected, depressed, downhearted, downcast, disconsolate, glum, miserable, wretched, dismal, morose …

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  • 98blithe — jocund, *merry, jovial, jolly Analogous words: gay, *lively, animated, vivacious, sprightly: joyful, joyous, lighthearted, *glad, happy, cheerful: buoyant, effervescent, volatile (see ELASTIC) Antonyms: morose: atrabilious Contrasted words: sad,… …

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  • 99despairing — adj hopeless, desperate, *despondent, forlorn Analogous words: melancholy, *me!anchoIic, atrabilious: pessimistic, misanthropic, *cynical: depressed, weighed down (see DEPRESS) Antonyms: hopeful Contrasted words: optimistic, roseate, rose colored …

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  • 100hypochondriac — *melancholic, melancholy, atrabilious …

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