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  • 51unsocial — Synonyms and related words: aloof, anchoretic, anchoritic, antisocial, autistic, bashful, chilly, close, cold, cool, detached, dissociable, distant, hermitical, hostile, incompatible, inhospitable, insociable, misanthropic, mopey, mopish, morose …

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  • 52dejection — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Sadness Nouns 1. dejection, dejectedness, depression; lowness or depression of spirits; weight or damp on the spirits; low, bad, drooping, or depressed spirits; sinking heart, heaviness of heart;… …

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  • 53listless — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. indifferent, languid, spiritless, apathetic, lethargic. See inactivity.Ant., energetic, lively. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Lacking spirit or deSire] Syn. dull, stupid, spiritless, inattentive,… …

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  • 54Dejection — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Dejection >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 dejection dejection Sgm: N 1 dejectedness dejectedness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 depression depression prosternation| Sgm: N 1 lowness of spirits lowness of spirits depression of… …

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  • 55mental illness — A disputed concept (see for example the entries elsewhere in this dictionary on Laing and anti psychiatry) founded on the everyday contrast between mind and body which, when applied to illness, generates an opposition between two contrasting… …

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  • 56mope — (v.) 1560s, to move and act unconsciously; 1580s, to be listless and apathetic, the sound of the word perhaps somehow suggestive of low feelings (Cf. Low Ger. mopen to sulk, Du. moppen to grumble, to grouse, Dan. maabe, dialectal Swed. mopa to… …

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  • 57mope — verb (often mope around/about) feel dejected and apathetic. noun informal a person who mopes. Derivatives moper noun mopey (also mopy) adjective mopily adverb mopiness noun mopish …

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  • 58blue — I. a. 1. Azure, cerulean, sapphirine, amethystine, sky colored. 2. Livid, ghastly, pallid. 3. (Colloq.) Melancholy, dejected, dispirited, depressed, sad, glum, gloomy, mopish, downcast, desponding, downhearted, hypochondriac, hipped, chapfallen,… …

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  • 59melancholy — I. n. Dejection, depression, gloominess, sadness, gloom, despondency, hypochondria, blues, blue devils, dumps, vapors, low spirits, depression of spirits. II. a. 1. Dejected, dispirited, depressed, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, disconsolate, doleful,… …

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  • 60crestfallen — adj depressed, in the doldrums, down in the dumps, dejected, low spirited, chapfallen, mopish; sad, unhappy, despondent, disconsolate, downcast, cast down, downhearted; melancholy, blue, dispirited, woebegone, heavy hearted; moody, gloomy, glum,… …

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