| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits. Used in plural: blues, dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dumps, dysphoria, funk, gloom, glumness, heavy-heartedness, melancholy, mournfulness, sadness, unhappiness. See FEELINGS, HAPPY. | | VERB: | 1. To focus the attention on something moodily and at length: brood, cark, dwell, fret, worry. Informal : stew. See CONCERN, THOUGHTS. 2. To be sullenly aloof or withdrawn, as in silent resentment or protest: pet2, pout, sulk. See HAPPY.
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