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JOYFULNESS Antonyms

There are 21 antonyms of the word joyfulness. (opposite meanings)

Best Opposite Words For JOYFULNESS

WordSaveSyns..UsageType
anguish

noun

n

noun

• extreme mental distress

• extreme distress of body or mind

verb

• suffer great pains or distress

• cause emotional anguish or make miserable

bleakness

noun

n

noun

• a bleak and desolate atmosphere

dejection

noun

n

noun

• a state of melancholy depression

• solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

depression

noun

n

noun

• a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

• a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

• a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

• a sunken or depressed geological formation

• sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

• an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation

• a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

• a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

• angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

• pushing down

desolation

noun

n

noun

• the state of being decayed or destroyed

• a bleak and desolate atmosphere

• sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned

• an event that results in total destruction

despair

noun

n

noun

• a state in which all hope is lost or absent

• the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well

verb

• abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart

discontentment

noun

n

noun

• a longing for something better than the present situation

distress

noun

n

noun

• psychological suffering

• a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)

• extreme physical pain

• the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim

verb

• bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

• cause mental pain to

forlornness

noun

n

noun

• sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned

gloom

noun

n

noun

• a state of partial or total darkness

• a feeling of melancholy apprehension

• an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

gloominess

noun

n

noun

• an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

• a feeling of melancholy apprehension

• the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

• The property of having a frowning or scowling appearance.

glumness

noun

n

noun

• an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

• a gloomy ill-tempered feeling

grief

noun

n

noun

• intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)

• something that causes great unhappiness

hopelessness

noun

n

noun

• the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success

melancholy

noun, adjective

n, adj

noun

• a feeling of thoughtful sadness

• a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

• a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

adjective satellite

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• grave or even gloomy in character

misery

noun

n

noun

• a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

• a feeling of intense unhappiness

mournfulness

noun

n

noun

• a state of gloomy sorrow

sadness

noun

n

noun

• emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being

• the state of being sad

• the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

sorrow

noun

n

noun

• an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement

• sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

• something that causes great unhappiness

• the state of being sad

verb

• feel grief

unhappiness

noun

n

noun

• emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being

• state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief

Alternatives for ANGUISH

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Alternatives for BLEAKNESS

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Alternatives for DEJECTION

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Phrases (3)
Abbreviations (1)

Alternatives for DEPRESSION

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Phrases (5)

Alternatives for DESOLATION

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Alternatives for DESPAIR

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Alternatives for DISCONTENTMENT

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Alternatives for DISTRESS

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