JOYOUS Antonyms

• causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

• brought low in spirit

• affected or marked by low spirits

• lower than previously

• flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• crushed by grief

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• reduce in population

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• without or almost without hope

• made less hopeful or enthusiastic

• marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine

• directed downward

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• marked by or showing hopelessness

• depressingly dark

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• moody and melancholic

• showing a brooding ill humor

• someone subject to melancholia

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• very unhappy; full of misery

• deserving or inciting pity

• of the most contemptible kind

• of very poor quality or condition

• characterized by physical misery

• contemptibly small in amount

• expressing sorrow

• filled with or evoking sadness

• experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

• of things that make you feel sad

• bad; unfortunate

• lacking brightness or color; dull

• grave or even gloomy in character

• experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss

• experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent

• generalized feeling of distress

• causing discomfort

• marked by or producing unhappiness

• of very poor quality or condition

• characterized by physical misery

• very unhappy; full of misery

• morally reprehensible

• deserving or inciting pity