Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| abattu | (Fr.) cast down, dejected. |
| accable | (Fr.) depressed, overwhelmed. |
| achage | (Tennyson) ache, aching. |
| afflictive | causing distress. |
| afflictively | (Adv.) AFFLICTIVE, causing distress. |
| aggrieve | to distress. |
| agonise | to cause severe pain to. |
| agonisedly | (Adv.) AGONISED. |
| agonising | extremely painful. |
| agonisingly | (Adv.) AGONISING. |
| agonize | to cause severe pain to. |
| agonizedly | (Adv.) AGONIZED. |
| agonizingly | (Adv.) AGONIZING. |
| alamort | (Fr.) half-dead; dejected. |
| allicholy | (Shakesp.) melancholy. |
| allycholly | (Shakesp.) melancholy. |
| atrabiliar | melancholy or morose. |
| atrabilious | (Arch.) melancholy or morose. |
| atrabiliousness | (Arch.) the state of being atrabilious, melancholy or morose. |
| attrist | (Obs.) to sadden. |
| ayenbite | (Obs.) remorse. |
| bewailer | one who bewails or laments. |
| beweep | to weep over, lament. |
| blissless | destitute of bliss. |
| boody | to sulk or mope. |
| brokenhearted | greatly depressed or hurt. |
| brokenheartedly | (Adv.) BROKENHEARTED, very sad. |
| cafard | (Fr.) severe depression or apathy. |
| cark | (Arch.) worry; trouble, distress; (verb) to worry. |
| chapfallen | dejected, dispirited. |
| cheerless | without cheer, gloomy. |
| cheerlessly | (Adv.) CHEERLESS, without cheer, gloomy. |
| cheerlessness | the state of being cheerless. |
| chopfallen | dejected, dispirited. |
| compunction | regret, remorse. |
| condole | to express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy. |
| condolent | expressing sympathy. |
| contrist | (Obs.) to sadden. |
| contristation | the act of contristing, saddening. |
| contrition | the state of being contrite. |
| crepehanger | a pessimist, a gloomy person. |
| crestfallen | dispirited or disappointed by having one's hopes dashed. |
| crestfallenly | (Adv.) CRESTFALLEN, dispirited or disappointed by having one's hopes dashed. |
| dearnful | solitary; mournful. |
| deject | to depress. |
| dejectedly | (Adv.) DEJECTED. |
| dejectedness | the state of being dejected. |
| dejection | lowness of spirits. |
| depress | to make sad. |
| depressing | saddening. |
| depressingly | (Adv.) DEPRESSING. |
| dernly | (Arch.) secretly; grievously. |
| desolate | lonely, waste (verb) to lay waste |
| desolately | (Adv.) DESOLATE, lonely. |
| desolateness | the state of being desolate. |
| desolating | causing great sadness. |
| desolatingly | (Adv.) DESOLATING. |
| despair | the absence of hope; (verb) to lose all hope. |
| despairer | one who despairs. |
| despairing | hopeless. |
| despairingly | (Adv.) DESPAIRING. |
| desperate | in a state of despair. |
| despond | to be lacking in hope. |
| despondence | the state of being despondent. |
| despondency | the state of being despondent. |
| despondingly | (Adv.) DESPONDING. |
| dirgeful | funereal; moaning. |
| dischuffed | (Coll.) not pleased. |
| disconsolate | cheerless. |
| disconsolately | (Adv.) DISCONSOLATE, cheerless. |
| disconsolation | the state of being disconsolate. |
| disgruntle | to make ill-humoured or discontented. |
| disgruntlement | the state of being disgruntled. |
| disheartenment | the state of being disheartened. |
| dismal | sad, gloomy (noun) an unlucky day; a swamp; a dismal person |
| dismality | the state of being dismal. |
| dismally | (Adv.) DISMAL, sad, gloomy. |
| dismalness | the quality of being dismal. |
| dismay | to deprive of courage or resolution. |
| dismayedness | the state of being dismayed. |
| dismaying | causing dismay. |
| dismayingly | (Adv.) DISMAYING. |
| dispirit | to make low-spirited. |
| dispiritedly | (Adv.) DISPIRITED. |
| dispiritedness | the state of being dispirited. |
| dispiriting | disheartening. |
| dispiritingly | (Adv.) DISPIRITING. |
| dispiritment | a state of being dispirited. |
| distrait | (Fr.) distracted in mind; excessively perplexed or troubled. |
| distraite | (Fr.) distracted in mind; excessively perplexed or troubled. |
| distress | to cause anxiety or suffering to. |
| distressful | causing distress. |
| distressfully | (Adv.) DISTRESSFUL, causing distress. |
| distressingly | (Adv.) DISTRESSING. |
| dole | pain, woe, trouble; (verb) to deal out. |
| doleful | sad, full of woe. |
| dolefully | (Adv.) DOLEFUL, sad, full of woe. |
| dolefulness | the state of being doleful. |
| dolent | (Obs.) causing sorrow or grief. |
| dolesome | doleful, dismal. |
| dolesomely | (Adv.) DOLESOME, doleful. |
| dolor | (US) grief, pain. |
| doloriferous | bearing grief or pain. |
| dolorific | bearing grief or pain. |
| dolorous | full of pain or grief; doleful. |
| dolorously | (Adv.) DOLOROUS, full of grief. |
| dolorousness | the state of being dolorous. |
| dolour | grief, pain. |
| dool | (Obs.) pain, woe, trouble. |
| doole | (Obs.) pain, woe, trouble. |
| dowf | (Scots) dull, heavy, spiritless. |
| dowie | (Scots) dull, low-spirited. |
| dowly | (Dial.) dull, low-spirited. |
| downhearted | downcast, dejected. |
| downheartedly | (Adv.) DOWNHEARTED, downcast, dejected. |
| downheartedness | the state of being downhearted. |
| downlooked | (Dryden) downcast, gloomy. |
| drear | gloomy, dreary (noun) the state of being dreary |
| dreare | (Spenser) dreariness, gloom. |
| drearihead | (Spenser) affliction; dreariness. |
| drearihood | (Spenser) affliction; dreariness. |
| drearily | (Adv.) DREARY, sad, gloomy. |
| dreariment | (Spenser) dreariness. |
| dreariness | the state of being dreary. |
| drearing | (Spenser) dreariness. |
| drearisome | very dreary. |
| dreary | sad, gloomy (noun) dreariness; a dreary person |
| dree | (Scots) dreary (verb) to suffer, endure |
| dreich | (Scots) dreary. |
| dreigh | (Scots) dreary. |
| drere | (Spenser) dreariness, gloom. |
| drerihead | (Spenser) dreariness. |
| driegh | (Scots) dreary. |
| dule | (Obs.) pain, woe, trouble. |
| dumpish | dull; sad. |
| dumpishly | (Adv.) DUMPISH, dull, sad. |
| dumpishness | the state of being dumpish. |
| dysthymic | despondent; (noun) one given to despondency. |
| embitter | to make bitter. |
| engrieve | (Spenser) to grieve. |
| exanimate | lifeless; spiritless; depressed. |
| facepalm | to bring the palm of one's hand to one's face as an expression of dismay. |
| funebre | (Fr.) mournful. |
| funest | (Obs.) deadly, lamentable. |
| gatvol | (S. Afr.) fed up. |
| gloom | partial darkness (verb) to be or look sullen or dejected |
| glum | morose (noun) a gloomy feeling |
| glumly | (Adv.) GLUM, morose. |
| glumness | the state of being glum. |
| glumpily | (Adv.) GLUMPY, glum, sullen. |
| glumpy | (Dial.) sulky. |
| gousty | (Scots) desolate, dreary. |
| grief | intense mental distress. |
| griefful | full of grief or sorrow. |
| griefless | without grief. |
| grievance | a cause or source of grief. |
| grieve | to feel grief. |
| griever | one who, or that which, grieves. |
| grievingly | (Adv.) GRIEVING. |
| grievousness | the state of being grievous. |
| groanful | (Arch.) full of groans. |
| gronefull | (Spenser) groanful. |
| grum | glum, morose. |
| grumly | (Adv.) GRUM, glum, morose. |
| heartache | sorrow, anguish. |
| heartbreak | crushing grief, anguish, or distress. |
| heartbreaking | causing intense sorrow or distress. |
| heartbreakingly | (Adv.) HEARTBREAKING, causing intense sorrow or distress. |
| heartbroken | having a broken heart. |
| heartbrokenly | (Adv.) HEARTBROKEN. |
| heartbrokenness | the state of being heartbroken. |
| heartrending | causing great grief. |
| heartrendingly | (Adv.) HEARTRENDING, causing great grief. |
| heartsick | very sad. |
| heartsickness | the state of being heartsick. |
| heartsore | sad, depressed; (noun) the cause of pain in the heart or the pain itself. |
| heavyhearted | despondent, saddened. |
| heavyheartedly | (Adv.) HEAVYHEARTED, despondent, saddened. |
| hippish | somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. |
| homesick | longing for home. |
| homesickness | the state of being homesick. |
| humdudgeon | (Scots) low spirits. |
| hyp | to offend. |
| imbitter | (Arch.) to make bitter. |
| impassible | not subject to suffering or pain. |
| impassibly | (Adv.) IMPASSIBLE, not subject to suffering or pain. |
| infelicity | the state of being infelicitous. |
| jawfall | a falling of the jaw; a depression of the spirits. |
| joyless | being without gladness. |
| joylessly | (Adv.) JOYLESS, without joy. |
| joylessness | the state of being joyless. |
| kaugh | (Scots) care, trouble. |
| kiaugh | (Scots) care, trouble. |
| lament | to express sorrow or regret for. |
| lamentation | an act or instance of lamenting. |
| lamentedly | (Adv.) LAMENTED. |
| lamenter | one who laments. |
| lamentingly | (Adv.) LAMENTING. |
| lugubrious | mournful, dismal, esp in an exaggerated or affected manner. |
| lugubriously | (Adv.) LUGUBRIOUS, mournful, dismal. |
| lugubriousness | the state of being lugubrious. |
| lumpish | like a lump; sullen. |
| lumpishly | (Adv.) LUMPISH, sullen. |
| mal | (Fr.) pain, sickness. |
| malcontent | a discontented person. |
| mardy | sulky, peevish (verb) to act like a spoilt child |
| melancholious | melancholic. |
| miscontent | (Arch.) to discontent. |
| miserable | wretched (noun) a miserable person, a wretch |
| miserableness | the state of being miserable. |
| miserably | (Adv.) MISERABLE, wretched. |
| misery | a state of great suffering. |
| miz | (Coll.) misery. |
| mizz | (Coll.) misery. |
| mope | a state of dejection (verb) to act in a dejected or gloomy manner |
| moper | one who mopes. |
| mopey | moping. |
| mopily | (Adv.) MOPY, given to moping. |
| mopiness | the state of being mopy. |
| mopingly | (Adv.) MOPING, sulking. |
| mopish | dull; spiritless; dejected. |
| mopishly | (Adv.) MOPISH, dull, dejected. |
| mopishness | the state of being mopish. |
| mopy | moping. |
| morose | sad, gloomy. |
| morosely | (Adv.) MOROSE, sad, gloomy. |
| moroseness | the state of being morose. |
| morosity | (Obs.) moroseness. |
| mourn | to feel or express grief or sorrow. |
| mourner | one that mourns. |
| mournful | sad, grieving. |
| mournfully | (Adv.) MOURNFUL, sad, grieving. |
| mournfulness | the state of being mournful. |
| mourning | an outward sign of grief. |
| mourningly | (Adv.) MOURNING. |
| mulligrubs | (Coll.) grumpiness; colic; low spirits. |
| mumpish | sulky. |
| mumpishly | (Adv.) MUMPISH, sulky. |
| mumpishness | the state of being mumpish, sulky. |
| nostalgia | homesickness; the desire to return to some earlier time in one's life. |
| nostalgic | missing the past (noun) one who is nostalgic |
| nostalgically | (Adv.) NOSTALGIC. |
| oversad | excessively sad. |
| pang | a violent but usual brief pain; (verb) to inflict a pang on. |
| pathetic | arousing pity. |
| pathetical | arousing pity. |
| pathos | (Greek) the quality that arouses pity. |
| penitent | repentant (noun) a person who repents his sins |
| penitently | (Adv.) PENITENT, repentant. |
| pensieroso | (Ital.) melancholy, thoughtful. |
| plainful | complaining. |
| plaintive | mournful, querulous. |
| plaintively | (Adv.) PLAINTIVE, mournful, querulous. |
| plightful | grievous. |
| poutful | pouty, sulky. |
| regret | a sorrowful wish that something had been otherwise; (verb) to look back upon with sorrow or remorse. |
| regretful | full of regret. |
| regretfully | (Adv.) REGRETFUL, full of regret. |
| regretter | one who regrets. |
| remorseful | motivated or marked by remorse. |
| remorsefully | (Adv.) REMORSEFUL, motivated or marked by remorse. |
| remorsefulness | the state of being remorseful. |
| repent | to feel remorse or self-reproach for a past action. |
| repentant | penitent (noun) a penitent |
| repine | to feel or express discontent or dejection. |
| repiningly | (Adv.) REPINING. |
| rue | repentance, regret; (verb) to regret. |
| rueful | feeling sorrow or remorse. |
| ruefully | (Adv.) RUEFUL, feeling sorrow or remorse. |
| ruefulness | the state of being rueful. |
| ruer | one who rues. |
| ruthful | pitiful, sorrowful. |
| ruthfully | (Adv.) RUTHFUL, pitiful, sorrowful. |
| ruthfulness | the state of being ruthful. |
| sad | unhappy, sorrowful (verb) to express sadness |
| sadden | to make sad. |
| saddish | somewhat sad. |
| sadly | (Adv.) SAD, unhappy, sorrowful. |
| sadness | the state of being sad. |
| saturnine | cold and steady in mood, of a gloomy or surly disposition, having a sardonic aspect. |
| saturninely | (Adv.) SATURNINE, having a gloomy temperament. |
| saturninity | the state of being saturnine. |
| saturnist | a person of a dull, grave, gloomy temperament. |
| sloomy | sluggish, spiritless. |
| sorra | (Irish) sorrow, the devil. |
| sorrily | (Adv.) SORRY, feeling grief or penitence. |
| sorrow | grief, sadness; (verb) to grieve. |
| sorrower | one who sorrows. |
| sorrowful | sad. |
| sorrowfully | (Adv.) SORROWFUL, sad. |
| sorrowfulness | the state of being sorrowful. |
| sorry | feeling grief or penitence. |
| spleenful | affected with spleen, fretful. |
| spleenfully | (Adv.) SPLEENFUL, displaying, or affected with, spleen; melancholy. |
| subtrist | (Arch.) somewhat sad. |
| sufferingly | (Adv.) SUFFERING. |
| sulk | a fit of sulking (verb) to be sulky |
| sulker | one who sulks. |
| sulkiness | the state of being sulky. |
| sullen | gloomily angry and silent (noun) a sullen mood |
| sullenly | (Adv.) SULLEN, gloomily angry and silent. |
| sullenness | the state of being sullen. |
| tearful | full of tears. |
| tearfully | (Adv.) TEARFUL, full of tears. |
| tearfulness | the state of being tearful. |
| tearily | (Adv.) TEARY, tearful. |
| teary | wet with tears, tearful. |
| throe | extreme pain; (verb) to subject to pangs. |
| throwe | (Shakesp.) a throe. |
| torment | to inflict with great bodily or mental suffering. |
| tormentedly | (Adv.) TORMENTED. |
| tormentingly | (Adv.) TORMENTING. |
| towt | (Scots) to pout, sulk. |
| trist | (Arch.) sad. |
| triste | (Arch.) sad. |
| tristesse | (Fr.) melancholy. |
| tristful | (Shakesp.) sad, mournful. |
| tristfully | (Adv.) TRISTFUL, sad, mournful. |
| tristfulness | the state of being tristful. |
| tsooris | (Yiddish) grief, woe. |
| tsores | (Yiddish) grief, woe. |
| tsoris | (Yiddish) grief, woe. |
| tsorriss | (Yiddish) grief, woe. |
| tsouris | (Yiddish) grief, woe. |
| tsuris | (Yiddish) grief, woe. |
| tzuris | (Yiddish) grief, woe. |
| unblissful | not blissful. |
| uncheerfulness | the state of being uncheerful. |
| unelated | not elated. |
| unglad | not glad. |
| unhappily | (Adv.) UNHAPPY, not happy. |
| unhappiness | the state of being unhappy. |
| unhappy | not happy (verb, Shakesp.) to make unhappy |
| unmerry | not merry. |
| unparadise | to deprive of happiness like that of paradise. |
| wae | (Scots) woe. |
| waeful | (Scots) woeful. |
| waeness | sadness. |
| waesome | woeful. |
| wailful | sorrowful; mournful. |
| wailfully | (Adv.) WAILFUL, mournful. |
| wailsome | wailful. |
| wanhope | (Obs.) despair. |
| wayment | (Spenser) to lament, grieve. |
| weltschmerz | (Ger.) mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state. |
| wo | (Arch.) woe. |
| wobegone | sad, dejected. |
| woe | grief, sadness. |
| woebegone | sad, dejected. |
| woeful | full of woe. |
| woefully | (Adv.) WOEFUL, sad, gloomy. |
| woefulness | the state of being woeful. |
| woeness | sadness. |
| woesome | woeful. |
| woful | full of woe. |
| wofully | (Adv.) WOFUL, full of woe. |
| wofulness | the state of being woeful. |
| worriment | trouble; anxiety; worry. |
| wretched | miserable. |
| wretchedly | (Adv.) WRETCHED, miserable. |