3
malaise(noun, trouble, disorder, worry, pain)
3
melancholia(noun, distress, sorrow, depression, sadness)
3
miserableness(noun, sorrow, depression, melancholy, sadness)
3
moroseness(noun, dejection, hopelessness)
3
ordeal(noun, depression, sadness, gloom, misery)
3
pine(pain, idle, sulk, dejection, languish)
3
prostration
3
resignation
3
spiritlessness(noun, hopelessness)
3
suffering(noun, worry, passion, distress, pain)
3
trial(noun, trouble, ruin, worry, distress)
2
depth of misery(expression, idiom, pain)
2
doldrums(noun, disorder, distress, depression, melancholy)
2
bale(pain, sorrow)
2
be hopeless(verb, expression, idiom, drop, give)
2
bitterness(noun, distress, pain, sorrow, depression)
2
catastrophe(noun, distress, pain, depression, sadness)
2
cave of despair(expression, idiom, dejection)
2
cede(verb, stop, drop, abandon, yield)
2
lowness(noun, distress, sorrow, sadness, gloom)
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