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"howling", "keening", "moaning", "yammering", "bleeding", "suffering", "black", "bleak", "cheerless", "comfortless", "dark", "darkening", "desolate", "dismal", "dreary", "funereal", "gloomy", "glum", "gray", "grey", "joyless", "low", "miserable", "moody", "morbid", "morose", "pathetic", "pessimistic", "piteous", "saturnine", "somber", "sombre", "sullen", "wretched" ], "synonyms":[ "aching", "agonized", "anguished", "bemoaning", "bewailing", "bitter", "deploring", "doleful", "dolesome", "dolorous", "funeral", "grieving", "heartbroken", "lamentable", "lugubrious", "mournful", "plaintive", "plangent", "regretful", "rueful", "sorrowful", "sorry", "wailing", "weeping" ] }, "feeling unhappiness":{ "antonyms":[ "blissful", "buoyant", "buoyed", "cheerful", "cheery", "chipper", "delighted", "glad", "gladdened", "gladsome", "gleeful", "happy", "joyful", "joyous", "jubilant", "sunny", "upbeat" ], "examples":[ "never saw a more woeful -looking bunch than those campers sitting there in the drenching rain" ], "near antonyms":[ "ecstatic", "elated", "enraptured", "entranced", "euphoric", "exhilarated", "exuberant", "exultant", "overjoyed", "rapturous", "rhapsodic", "rhapsodical", "blithe", "blithesome", "jocose", "jocular", "jocund", "jolly", "jovial", "lightsome", "merry", "mirthful", "excited", "thrilled", "hopeful", "optimistic", "rosy", "sanguine", "encouraged", "heartened", "animated", "bouncing", "energetic", "frisky", "jaunty", "lively", "peppy", "perky", "spirited", "sprightful", "sprightly", "springy", "vital", "vivacious", "zippy", "content", "gratified", "pleased", "satisfied", "beaming", "grinning", "laughing", "smiling", "boon", "carefree", "careless", "cavalier", "devil-may-care", "easygoing", "happy-go-lucky", "insouciant", "lighthearted", "unconcerned" ], "related":[ "aggrieved", "distressed", "troubled", "uneasy", "unquiet", "upset", "worried", "despairing", "hopeless", "sunk", "disappointed", "discouraged", "disheartened", "dispirited", "suicidal", "dolorous", "lachrymose", "lugubrious", "plaintive", "tearful", "regretful", "rueful", "agonized", "anguished", "grieving", "wailing", "weeping", "black", "bleak", "cheerless", "comfortless", "dark", "darkening", "depressing", "desolate", "dismal", "drear", "dreary", "elegiac", "elegiacal", "funereal", "gray", "grey", "morbid", "morose", "murky", "saturnine", "somber", "sombre", "sullen" ], "synonyms":[ "bad", "blue", "brokenhearted", "cast down", "crestfallen", "dejected", "depressed", "despondent", "disconsolate", "doleful", "down", "down in the mouth", "downcast", "downhearted", "droopy", "forlorn", "gloomy", "glum", "hangdog", "heartbroken", "heartsick", "heartsore", "heavyhearted", "inconsolable", "joyless", "low", "low-spirited", "melancholic", "melancholy", "miserable", "mournful", "sad", "saddened", "sorrowful", "sorry", "unhappy", "woebegone", "wretched" ] }, "of a kind to cause great distress":{ "antonyms":[], "examples":[ "the restaurant patron made the woeful discovery that he had left his wallet at home" ], "near antonyms":[ "gratifying", "pleasing", "rewarding", "satisfying", "comforting", "encouraging", "heartening", "cheering", "heartwarming", "inspiring", "fortunate", "happy", "lucky" ], "related":[ "troublesome", "vexatious", "affecting", "doleful", "moving", "piteous", "poignant", "ruthful", "touching", "awful", "dire", "dreadful", "fearful", "severe", "terrible", "alarming", "disturbing", "perturbing", "traumatic", "unsettling", "crushing", "excruciating", "harrowing", "horrible", "horrifying", "intolerable", "overwhelming", "shocking", "sickening", "unbearable", "miserable", "pitiful", "sad", "wretched", "calamitous", "disastrous", "painful", "raging", "sharp" ], "synonyms":[ "deplorable", "distressful", "distressing", "grievous", "heartbreaking", "heartrending", "lamentable", "regrettable", "tragic", "tragical", "unfortunate", "unlucky" ] }, "type":[ "adjective" ] }, "woe":{ "used to express sorrow or distress":{ "examples":[ "ah, woe , with the death of the last of my siblings I am alone in this world!" ], "synonyms":[ "alack", "alas", "ay", "wirra" ], "near synonyms":[ "ouch", "ow", "aw", "phooey", "rats", "sheesh", "shucks", "bah", "boo", "faugh", "fie", "ho hum", "humph", "pish", "pooh", "pshaw", "tsk", "tush", "tut", "yuck", "yuk" ], "near antonyms":[ "alleluia", "glory", "hallelujah", "ha", "hey", "hooray", "hurrah", "hurray", "hot dog", "wahoo", "whee", "whoopee", "wow", "yahoo", "yippee" ], "antonyms":[] }, "a state of great suffering of body or mind":{ "examples":[ "a tale of misery and woe" ], "synonyms":[ "affliction", "agony", "anguish", "distress", "excruciation", "hurt", "misery", "pain", "rack", "strait(s)", "torment", "torture", "travail", "tribulation" ], "near synonyms":[ "discomfort", "cross", "crucible", "trial", "heartache", "heartbreak", "joylessness", "sadness", "sorrow", "unhappiness", "emergency", "pinch", "asperity", "difficulty", "hardship", "rigor", "ache", "pang", "smarting", "soreness", "stitch", "throe", "twinge", "danger", "jeopardy", "trouble" ], "near antonyms":[ "comfort", "consolation", "solace", "alleviation", "assuagement", "ease", "relief", "peace", "security", "well-being" ], "antonyms":[] }, "deep sadness especially for the loss of someone or something loved":{ "examples":[ "the incessant woe that has haunted her since the death of her husband" ], "synonyms":[ "affliction", "anguish", "dolefulness", "dolor", "grief", "heartache", "heartbreak", "sorriness", "sorrow" ], "near synonyms":[ "agony", "distress", "pain", "suffering", "torment", "blue devils", "blues", "dejection", "depression", "desolateness", "desolation", "despair", "despondence", "despondency", "disconsolateness", "dispiritedness", "distress", "doldrums", "downheartedness", "dreariness", "dumps", "forlornness", "gloom", "gloominess", "glumness", "heartsickness", "joylessness", "melancholy", "miserableness", "misery", "mopes", "oppression", "sorrowfulness", "unhappiness", "woefulness", "wretchedness", "contrition", "guilt", "regret", "remorse", "rue", "self-reproach", "shame", "melancholia", "self-pity" ], "near antonyms":[ "gaiety", "gayety", "gayness", "humor", "jollity", "joviality", "lightheartedness", "merriment", "merrymaking", "mirth", "mirthfulness", "hopefulness", "optimism", "sunniness", "enjoyment", "content", "contentedness", "contentment" ], "antonyms":[ "blessedness", "bliss", "blissfulness", "cheer", "cheerfulness", "cheeriness", "delight", "ecstasy", "elatedness", "elation", "euphoria", "exhilaration", "exuberance", "exultation", "felicity", "gladness", "gladsomeness", "glee", "gleefulness", "happiness", "joy", "joyfulness", "joyousness", "jubilation", "pleasure", "rapture", "rapturousness" ] }, "type":[ "interjection", "noun" ] }, "woefully":{ "with feelings of bitterness or grief":{ "examples":[ "woefully recounted the many injustices that the family had endured at the hands of the dictator" ], "synonyms":[ "agonizingly", "bitterly", "dolefully", "dolorously", "grievously", "hard", "hardly", "inconsolably", "lugubriously", "mournfully", "painfully", "plaintively", "regretfully", "resentfully", "ruefully", "sadly", "sorely", "sorrowfully", "unhappily", "wailfully", "wretchedly" ], "near synonyms":[ "abjectly", "cheerlessly", "crestfallenly", "dejectedly", "despairingly", "despondently", "disconsolately", "dispiritedly", "downheartedly", "low-spiritedly", "blackly", "darkly", "dismally", "distressfully", "distressingly", "dourly", "drearily", "forlornly", "gloomily", "glumly", "joylessly", "mirthlessly", "miserably", "morosely", "pessimistically", "somberly", "sullenly", "acutely", "harshly", "keenly", "piercingly", "poignantly", "severely", "sharply", "cruelly", "hurtfully", "ill", "rancorously" ], "near antonyms":[ "cheerfully", "cheerily", "delightedly", "gaily", "gayly", "gleefully", "good-naturedly", "lightheartedly", "merrily", "mirthfully", "rejoicingly", "sunnily", "blithely", "blithesomely", "calmly", "casually", "dispassionately", "easily", "impassively", "indifferently", "lightly", "nonchalantly", "stoically", "unconcernedly", "favorably", "well" ], "antonyms":[ "blissfully", "gladly", "happily", "joyfully", "joyously" ] }, "type":[ "adverb" ] }, "woefulness":{ "as in sorrowfulness , forlornness":{ "examples":[], "synonyms":[], "near synonyms":[ "blue devils", "blues", "dejection", "depression", "desolateness", "desolation", "despair", "despondence", "despondency", "disconsolateness", "dispiritedness", "distress", "doldrums", "downheartedness", "dreariness", "dumps", "forlornness", "gloom", "gloominess", "glumness", "heartsickness", "joylessness", "melancholy", "miserableness", "misery", "mopes", "oppression", "sorrowfulness", "unhappiness", "wretchedness", "agony", "distress", "pain", "suffering", "torment", "contrition", "guilt", "regret", "remorse", "rue", "self-reproach", "shame", "affliction", "anguish", "dolefulness", "dolor", "grief", "heartache", "heartbreak", "sorriness", "sorrow", "woe", "melancholia", "self-pity" ], "near antonyms":[ "blessedness", "bliss", "blissfulness", "cheer", "cheerfulness", "cheeriness", "delight", "ecstasy", "elatedness", "elation", "euphoria", "exhilaration", "exuberance", "exultation", "felicity", "gladness", "gladsomeness", "glee", "gleefulness", "happiness", "joy", "joyfulness", "joyousness", "jubilation", "pleasure", "rapture", "rapturousness", "gaiety", "gayety", "gayness", "humor", "jollity", "joviality", "lightheartedness", "merriment", "merrymaking", "mirth", "mirthfulness", "hopefulness", "optimism", "sunniness", "enjoyment", "content", "contentedness", "contentment" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "woes":{ "a state of great suffering of body or mind":{ "examples":[ "a tale of misery and woe" ], "synonyms":[ "afflictions", "agonies", "anguishes", "distresses", "excruciations", "hurts", "miseries", "pains", "racks", "straits", "torments", "tortures", "travails", "tribulations" ], "near synonyms":[ "discomforts", "crosses", "crucibles", "trials", "heartaches", "heartbreaks", "sorrows", "emergencies", "pinches", "asperities", "difficulties", "hardships", "rigors", "aches", "pangs", "stitches", "throes", "twinges", "dangers", "jeopardies", "troubles" ], "near antonyms":[ "comforts", "consolations", "solaces", "alleviations", "assuagements", "eases", "reliefs", "peaces", "securities", "well-beings" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] } }