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unhappiness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of unhappiness

a state or spell of low spirits

with time the young woman got over the unhappiness caused by the breakup

Synonyms of unhappiness

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, sorrowfulness

Words Related to unhappiness

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 unhappiness

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 unhappiness

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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