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anguished
Synonyms and Antonyms of anguished
- an anguished cry
- the military's explanation of the accident did nothing to console the anguished widow
dirgelike, 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, wretched
delighted, exulting, glorying, happy, joyful, rejoicing, triumphant
bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery
blissful, blithe, blithesome, buoyant, jocund, jolly, joyous, lighthearted, merry, mirthful
encouraging, hopeful, optimistic
ecstatic, elated, euphoric, exhilarated, giddy, heady, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical)
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