All downheartedness synonyms
noun downheartedness
- gloom — total or partial darkness; dimness.
- blues — a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness
- dejection — Dejection is a feeling of sadness that you get, for example, when you have just been disappointed by something.
- depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
- desolation — Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
- despondence — state of being despondent; depression of spirits from loss of courage or hope; dejection.
- despondency — Despondency is a strong feeling of unhappiness caused by difficulties which you feel you cannot overcome.
- dispiritedness — The state or condition of being dispirited.
- doldrums — A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks – so called by sailors.
- dolefulness — The characteristic of being doleful; sadness.
- dumps — an accumulation of discarded garbage, refuse, etc.
- forlornness — desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
- funk — Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1884–1967, U.S. biochemist, born in Poland: discovered thiamine, the first vitamin isolated.
- gloominess — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- glumness — sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
- low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
- melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
- sadness — affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful: to feel sad because a close friend has moved away.
- unhappiness — sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?