anguished

Synonyms

aching, agonized, bemoaning, bewailing, bitter, deploring, doleful, dolorous, funeral, grieving, heartbroken, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, plangent, regretful, rueful, sorrowful, sorry, wailing, weeping, woeful;

Near Antonyms

delighted, exulting, glorying, happy, joyful, rejoicing, triumphant;

bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery;

laughing, smiling;

blissful, blithe, blithesome, buoyant, jocund, jolly, joyous, lighthearted, merry, mirthful;

encouraging, hopeful, optimistic;

ecstatic, elated, euphoric, exhilarated, giddy, heady, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical);

Related Words

elegiac (also elegiacal), melancholy;

dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, dispirited, downcast, downhearted, heartsick, heartsore, inconsolable, tearful;

brokenhearted, careworn, crestfallen, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, gloomy, glum, low-spirited, miserable, sad, triste, unhappy, woebegone;

bawling, crying, groaning, howling, keening, moaning, yammering;

black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, darkening, desolate, dismal, dreary, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray (also grey), joyless, low, miserable, moody, morbid, morose, pathetic, pessimistic, piteous, saturnine, somber (or sombre), sullen;