| dolefulness(noun, trouble, worry, distress, depression) |
| evil(noun, disaster, immorality, badness) |
| gloominess(noun, trouble, worry, distress, depression) |
| guilt(noun, shame, anguish, grief, regret) |
| pity(noun, feeling, understanding, shame, woe) |
| repine(verb, break, fail, desire, weaken) |
| sing the blues(verb, expression, idiom, keen, cry) |
| torture(noun, trouble, worry, passion, distress) |
| afflict(noun, pain, torment) |
| aggrieve |
| burden(noun, trouble, charge, worry, blow) |
| calamity(noun, trouble, wrong, harm, difficulty) |
| carry on(verb, expression, phrasal verb, desire, want) |
| compunction(noun, understanding, empathy, worry, concern) |
| dispiritedness(noun, trouble, worry, distress, depression) |
| downheartedness(noun, trouble, worry, distress, depression) |
| grievance(noun, trouble, worry, concern, strain) |
| lamenting(noun, trouble, discharge, worry, distress) |
| languish(verb, dull, fail, desire, weaken) |
| mope(melancholy, sadness, dejection, somberness) |