Lack of pleasure; grief, distress; weariness, tedium.

Sorrowful state or character; grief, sadness, melancholy.

The state or quality of being heavy: in the various senses of the adjective; esp. Dejectedness of mind; †sadness, grief.

Loneliness, dreariness, misery.

Gloominess of mind or spirits: now esp. as arising from want of interest.

Sadness, grief.

figurative. A benighted state of mind; lack of spiritual or intellectual enlightenment; sorrow, gloom, despair. Obsolete.

Sadness, grief, melancholy.

The state of being faint in spirit; dejection, timorousness; inertness, slackness, sluggishness. Obsolete except in faintness of heart, etc.

Want of gladness (†or good spirits).

The action or state expressed by the verb droop, v.; literal downward hang or depression; figurative falling off, pining away; dejection.

Heaviness of heart, sorrow.

Depression of spirits; downcast or dejected condition.

as n. Gloom. Scottish. Obsolete. rare.

The state or condition of being disconsolate; unhappiness, despondency. Also: a feeling of unhappiness. Cf. disconsolateness, n.

figurative. rare. Perhaps: dejection, depression of spirits.

In extended use: melancholy. Frequently in the exclamation away the mare! Obsolete.

As a count noun: a condition, quality, or instance of sorrow.

Dejection; tendency to be in the dumps.

The state or quality of being dolorous; sorrowfulness, sadness, dolefulness.

Dismalness, dolefulness, dejection. Also: remorse, regret, now usually of a humorous or wry kind.

The quality or state of being doleful; grief, sadness, sorrowfulness; dreariness, melancholy.

Lack of enthusiasm, energy, or commitment; dejection, listlessness, apathy. Now rare.

More generally: mental pain or distress; sorrow, trouble, grief; depression. Also: an instance of this. Obsolete.

The condition of bring mopey; dejection; †foolishness (obsolete).

The action of making sad; the state of being saddened.

A state of dejection; depression of spirits.

Depression of spirits; melancholy look.

Blackness; †mournfulness, gloom.

The quality or state of being uncheerful.

The state or condition of being disconsolate; unhappiness, disconsolation; (also) cheerlessness.

The quality or condition of being cheerless; dreariness, gloominess, joylessness.

The state of being downcast or depressed in spirits.

Drooping condition or state.

The action or fact of discouraging or depriving of vigour or enthusiasm; (also) the state of being dispirited or disheartened; discouragement; loss…

The fact of feeling mentally or physically low (low, adj. 16a, 16b); depression, melancholy, fatigue, weakness. Frequently in lowness of spirits…

Desponding, despondency.

The state or condition of being disconsolate; disconsolation. Formerly also: †a feeling of disconsolation (obsolete).

The state or condition of being despondent; depression or dejection of spirits through loss of resolution or hope.

That which frets or worries the mind; fretting trouble, carking care, worry, anxiety; melancholy. Obsolete.

Dejection, depression, lowering of spirits or vitality. Obsolete.

A dismaying or disappointing event or circumstance. Cf. jaw-fallen, adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.

the condition of being weighted.

The condition of being depressed in spirits; dejection.

Disconsolation. Cf. disconsolacy, n.

The quality of being ‘grum’.

The action of desponding; also (less correctly) = despondency, n.

The act of desponding; despondency.

dispirited condition.

The condition of being glum.

A state of being emotionally depressed, dejected, or lacking in energy; (also) a difficult, dispiriting, or unsuccessful period of one's life. Cf…

A state of melancholy or depression; a sad or despondent look. Also in plural fits of melancholy.

The condition of being low-spirited; spec. (a) cowardice (now rare); (b) depression, dejection.

figurative. Usually in (the) blue devils. Feelings of depression or melancholy; low spirits, despondency. Frequently personified. Cf. blue, adj. 4…

figurative. Melancholy, depression. Cf. to have the (also a) black dog on one's back (also shoulder) at phrases.

(See quot. 1785.)

the fact or condition of being affected with the blue devils (sense 2a); a period of melancholy or depression.

Dispirited condition.

melancholy; something uncanny or supernatural.

a thing that evokes the blue devils (sense 2a).

The state of being dispirited; disheartenment; depression of spirits.

dejection.

dolorousness.

Mournfulness.

Disconsolation.

colloquial. A state of depression or low spirits; a person who or thing which induces such a state of depression. Cf. down, adj. 3, downer, n. 5.

sadness.

Dismalness, gloom.

English regional. A state of despondency or depression. Chiefly in to be in a low key. Now rare.

In extended use: gloominess, a theatrical or aesthetic indulgence in reflective or maudlin emotion. See melancholy, n.1 3d.

(a) a complete destruction by fire; also = burn, n.3 1c; (b) the fusing of a wire or other electric conductor by excess of electric current; also…

Loneliness, depression; (with the) a state of depression, ‘the blues’. Occasionally also: drunkenness; alcoholic drink.

The fact, condition, or quality of being down (in various senses).

The condition of being mopey; a state of listless dejection.

figurative. (Cf. deflate, v. 2a 2b.)

figurative. A state of depression or stagnation.