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dejection

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Synonyms and Antonyms of dejection

a state or spell of low spirits

I find that ice cream often works wonders when trying to overcome dejection

Synonyms of dejection

blue devils, blues, depression, desolation, despond, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, mopes, mournfulness, oppression, sadness, sorrowfulness, unhappiness

Words Related to dejection

melancholia, self-pity

anguish, dolor, grief, mourning, somberness, sorrow, woefulness

agony, distress, pain

misery, woe, wretchedness

discouragement, disheartenment

despair, desperation, hopelessness, self-despair

boredom, ennui, tedium

dismalness, drear, morbidness, moroseness, morosity

Near Antonyms of dejection

gaiety (also gayety), gayness, glee, gleefulness, humor, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, mirthfulness

cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, hopefulness, optimism, sunniness

content, contentedness, contentment, satisfaction

delight, gratification

Antonyms of dejection

bliss, blissfulness, ecstasy, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, gladness, gladsomeness, happiness, heaven, intoxication, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, rapture, rapturousness

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