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sorrowfulness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of sorrowfulness

a state or spell of low spirits

with a sorrowfulness that can only be described as heart-wrenching, she read the elegy

Synonyms of sorrowfulness

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

Words Related to sorrowfulness

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 sorrowfulness

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 sorrowfulness

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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