| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. In low spirits: blue, dejected, depressed, desolate, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, dull, dysphoric, gloomy, heavy-hearted, low, melancholic, melancholy, spiritless, tristful, unhappy, wistful. Idioms: down at (or in) the mouth. See HAPPY. 2. Tending to cause sadness or low spirits: blue, cheerless, depressing, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, joyless, melancholy. See HAPPY. 3. Causing sorrow or regret: deplorable, doleful, dolorous, grievous, lamentable, mournful, regrettable, rueful, sorrowful, woeful. See HAPPY. 4. Full of or expressive of sorrow: doleful, dolorous, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, rueful, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful. See HAPPY.
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