Wistful synonyms
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The definition of melancholy is someone or something that is sad or gloomy.
Ld. Berners
Feeling or showing a yearning
Looking thoughtful, especially from sadness.
Allowing no hope; causing despair
half-expectant
The definition of plaintive is something that is sad, mournful or expresses sorrow.
happy (antonym)
Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous.
Full of or expressing deep feeling; profoundly emotional.
joyous (antonym)
The definition of joyous is feelings of great happiness or delight.
exuberant (antonym)
Characterized by good health and high spirits; full of life; uninhibited
Like something in a dream; not sharply defined; misty, vague, etc.
Meditative; thoughtful
Sad and dispirited.
The definition of depressed is someone in a sad or unhappy state, or something that has been pushed down.
Desolate is defined as someone or something which is unhappy or bleak.
Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.
Depressed; dejected
(Of a person) Feeling despondent.
Cloudy or overcast:
(Idiomatic) Sad, melancholy.
Ranked near the beginning of an ascending series or scale:
Of or relating to melancholia.
Lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.
Sorrowful; gloomy.
Not suitable; inappropriate:
down at (or in) the mouth
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