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- Thesaurus|580
- Abbreviations|0
| disapproval(noun, unhelpfulness, unconstructiveness) | |
| disbelief(noun, negativism) | |
| discomfiture(noun, disappointment, dismay, despondency) | |
| dishearteningly | |
| disparagement | |
| disposition | |
| doleful | |
| dolefulness(melancholy, sadness, misery, unhappiness, hopelessness) | |
| doomsayer | |
| doomster | |
| dysphoria(melancholy, sadness, somberness) | |
| emptiness(noun, nihilism, negativism) | |
| expectation of the worst(expression, idiom, discouragement, despondency, resignation) | |
| funk(melancholy, sadness, somberness) | |
| fussbudget | |
| gloomy | |
| habitual skepticism(noun, unhelpfulness, unconstructiveness) | |
| heavy heart(expression, melancholy, sadness) | |
| heavyheartedness(grief, foreboding) | |
| hope deferred(expression, idiom, dejection) |
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