Depression words - Cia

mr. L. (Canada)
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  1. heartsickness
    feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
  2. despondency
    feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
  3. melancholy
    a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
  4. pitiful
    deserving or inciting compassion
  5. plaintive
    expressing sorrow
  6. mournful
    expressing sorrow
  7. heartbroken
    full of sorrow
  8. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  9. lamenting
    vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression
  10. lachrymose
    showing sorrow
  11. dolourous
    showing sorrow
  12. uncheerful
    causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
  13. sorrowful
    experiencing or marked by or expressing sadness
  14. joyless
    not experiencing or inspiring joy
  15. woebegone
    affected by or full of grief
  16. heartbreaking
    causing or marked by grief or anguish
Created on Wed Jun 09 13:31:26 EDT 2010

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