59 Opposite Words For Happy (2025)

unhappyadjectiveadj

adjective

• experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent

• generalized feeling of distress

adjective satellite

• causing discomfort

• marked by or producing unhappiness

blueadjectiveadj

noun

• blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime

• blue clothing

• any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

• the sky as viewed during daylight

• used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

• the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

• any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

adjective satellite

• of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky

• used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• characterized by profanity or cursing

• suggestive of sexual impropriety

• belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

• morally rigorous and strict

• causing dejection

verb

• turn blue

depressednoun, adjectiven, adj

adjective satellite

• lower than previously

• flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces

• filled with melancholy and despondency

downverb, adverbv, adv

adjective

• being or moving lower in position or less in some value

noun

• soft fine feathers

• English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

• (American football) a complete play to advance the football

• (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

• fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

adverb

• spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

• away from a more central or a more northerly place

• paid in cash at time of purchase

• from an earlier time

• to a lower intensity

• in an inactive or inoperative state

adjective satellite

• extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

• becoming progressively lower

• being put out in a game of baseball

• understood perfectly

• lower than previously

• shut

• not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

verb

• drink down entirely

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• bring down or defeat (an opponent)

• shoot at and force to come down

• cause to come or go down

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

miserableadjectiveadj

adjective satellite

• very unhappy; full of misery

• deserving or inciting pity

• of the most contemptible kind

• of very poor quality or condition

• characterized by physical misery

• contemptibly small in amount

moroseadjectiveadj

adjective satellite

• showing a brooding ill humor

sadadjectiveadj

adjective

• experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

adjective satellite

• of things that make you feel sad

• bad; unfortunate

anguishedadjectiveadj

adjective satellite

• experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

brokenheartedadjectiveadj

adjective satellite

• full of sorrow

cheerlessadjectiveadj

adjective

• causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

crestfallenadjectiveadj

adjective satellite

• brought low in spirit

dejectedadjectiveadj

adjective

• affected or marked by low spirits

desolateadjectiveadj

adjective satellite

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• crushed by grief

verb

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• reduce in population

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

despondentadjectiveadj

adjective satellite

• without or almost without hope

disappointedadjectiveadj

adjective satellite

• disappointingly unsuccessful

disconsolateadjectiveadj

adjective

• sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled

adjective satellite

• causing dejection

discouragedadjectiveadj

adjective satellite

• made less hopeful or enthusiastic

• lacking in resolution

disheartenedadjectiveadj

adjective satellite

• made less hopeful or enthusiastic

dismaladjectiveadj

adjective satellite

• causing dejection

dispiritedadjectiveadj

adjective satellite

• marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm

• filled with melancholy and despondency

59 Opposite Words For Happy (2025)

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