What are the opposite words for joy?
The antonyms for the word "joy" are sadness, sorrow, misery, and grief. Sadness is the feeling of being unhappy or disappointed, whereas sorrow refers to a feeling of deep distress caused by loss or disappointment. Misery is a state of extreme unhappiness or suffering, and grief is the intense feeling of emotion or sorrow that is often associated with the death of a loved one. These antonyms of joy reflect the opposite emotions that one feels when facing the difficulties and challenges of life. However, it is essential to remember that even in moments of sadness or grief, one can find comfort and hope that can lead to a renewed sense of joy.
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- desolation
- hopelessness
- hate
- evil
- hell
- resentment
- pain
- adversity
- difficulty
- feeling
- bane
- fear
- dejection
- boredom
- penitence
- offense
- crime
- depression
- dismay
- pity
- regret
- anger
- anguish
- atrocity
- bitterness
- burden
- care
- despair
- desperation
- discouragement
- distress
- doldrums
- drag
- enormity
- glumness
- grievance
- heartbreak
- ill
- incommodiousness
- indignation
- injustice
- irascibility
- malaise
- martyrdom
- misery
- mourning
- nuisance
- obscenity
- oppression
- pathos
- pest
- state of mind
- temper
- torment
- torture
- trauma
- trial
- unease
- unrest
- ache
- agony
- albatross
- annoyance
- anxiety
- badgering
- blues
- bother
- calamity
- catastrophe
- chagrin
- compassion
- despondency
- disaster
- downheartedness
- dreariness
- gloom
- grief
- harassment
- hardship
- heartache
- hurt
- impatience
- inconvenience
- injury
- ire
- melancholy
- misfortune
- mood
- outrage
- penance
- plague
- remorse
- sadness
- sorrow
- spleen
- storm
- suffering
- terror
- tragedy
- tribulation
- trouble
- umbrage
- unhappiness
- object of extreme dislike, hate
- sore feeling; dull pain
- bad luck, situation
- hurt condition; something that causes hurt
- suffering, pain
- hatred
- state of being mad, annoyed
- severe upset or pain
- worry, tension
- cruelness, offensiveness; widely condemned action
- cause of misery
- ennui
- trouble, inconvenience
- disaster; tragedy
- ordeal
- personal interest, concern
- calamity; unhappy conclusion
- displeasure
- offense against the law
- everlasting punishment
- pessimism
- dissatisfaction
- low spirits; despair
- uninhabitated area; barrenness
- depression, hopelessness
- mental burden
- affliction
- accident, trouble
- disappointed feeling; distress
- unhappiness, anger
- discontent, unhappiness
- pain, agony
- misery, anguish
- bad situation
- horribleness
- badness, immorality; disaster
- upset, provocation
- alarm, apprehension
- fear, depression
- persecution
- melancholy, depression
- mental suffering
- complaint, gripe
- flagrancy
- personal burden
- anguish, sorrow
- mental or emotional misery
- place of the condemned; bad situation
- bad mood
- injury; damage
- inability, unwillingness to wait
- bother, trouble
- hurt, harm
- unfair treatment; bias
- a disturbed mental state
- great happiness, pleasure
- depression, sickness
- suffering endured for sake of a cause
- depression, sadness
- pain, mental or physical
- sadness, time of sadness
- annoyance; annoying person
- insult, displeasure
- misery, hardship
- trouble, suffering
- atrocity, evil
- physical suffering
- ache, twinge
- deep sadness
- reparation for wrong
- shame, sorrow
- person or thing that presents problem
- anger, irritation
- feeling of mercy toward another
- annoyance, curse
- upset over past action
- guilty or bad conscience
- hate, anger
- unhappiness, depression
- extreme upset, grief
- commotion, turmoil
- intense fear
- severe mental distress
- severe mental or physical pain
- trouble, big problem
- annoyance, worry
- personal displeasure
- unjustness
- state of agitation; disturbance
- anxiety, trouble
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- desolation
- hopelessness
- hate
- evil
- hell
- resentment
- pain
- adversity
- difficulty
- feeling
- bane
- fear
- dejection
- boredom
-
penitence
- ruefulness,
- self-punishment,
- self-reproach,
- de basement,
- de basements,
- de gradation,
- de gradations,
- de-basement,
- de-basements,
- de-gradation,
- de-gradations,
- humblings,
- ruefulnesses,
- self castigation,
- self condemnation,
- self condemnations,
- self punishment,
- self punishments,
- self reproach,
- self reproaches,
- self-castigation,
- self-castigations,
- self-condemnations,
- self-punishments,
- selfcastigations,
- selfcondemnation,
- selfcondemnations,
- selfpunishment,
- selfpunishments,
- selfreproach,
- selfreproaches.
- offense
-
crime
- criminality,
- fast one,
- illegality,
- immorality,
- tort,
- Delict,
- Malefaction,
- Torts,
- antisocial behavior,
- antisocial behaviors,
- criminalities,
- delicts,
- delictum,
- delictums,
- evil behaviors,
- fast ones,
- in fractions,
- in-fraction,
- in-fractions,
- male faction,
- male factions,
- male-faction,
- male-factions,
- malefactions,
- mis conduct,
- mis conducts,
- mis deed,
- mis deeds,
- mis demeanor,
- mis-conduct,
- mis-conducts,
- mis-deed,
- mis-deeds,
- mis-demeanor,
- mis-demeanors,
- unlawful act,
- unlawful acts.
-
depression
- abjection,
- blahs,
- bleakness,
- blues,
- cheerlessness,
- dispiritedness,
- doldrums,
- dumps,
- lowness,
- melancholia,
- unhappiness,
- woefulness,
- Abjectness,
- Disconsolation,
- Melancholias,
- the blues,
- abjections,
- abjectnesses,
- bleaknesses,
- cheerlessnesses,
- dis consolation,
- dis consolations,
- dis-consolation,
- dis-consolations,
- disconsolations,
- dispiritednesses,
- heaviness heart,
- lownesses,
- lugubriosities,
- lugubriosity,
- woefulnesses.
- dismay
- pity
- regret
-
anger
- gall,
- hatred,
- ill humor,
- ill temper,
- indignation,
- infuriation,
- ire,
- miff,
- stew,
- tizzy,
- violence,
- Mads,
- hissy fit,
- slow burn,
- blow ups,
- cat fit,
- cat fits,
- dis approbation,
- dis approbations,
- dis temper,
- dis tempers,
- dis-approbation,
- dis-approbations,
- dis-temper,
- dis-tempers,
- hissy fits,
- ill humors,
- ill tempers,
- infuriations,
- ranklings,
- slow burns.
- anguish
- atrocity
- bitterness
- burden
- care
- despair
- desperation
- discouragement
- distress
- doldrums
- drag
- enormity
- glumness
- grievance
- heartbreak
- ill
- incommodiousness
- indignation
-
injustice
- unjustness,
- in equity,
- crying shame,
- crying shames,
- dirty deal,
- dirty deals,
- dis crimination,
- dis criminations,
- dis-crimination,
- dis-criminations,
- in equalities,
- in equality,
- in equities,
- in justices,
- in-equalities,
- in-equality,
- in-equity,
- in-justice,
- mis carriage,
- mis carriages,
- mis-carriages,
- un fairnesses,
- un lawfulness,
- un lawfulnesses,
- un-fairness,
- un-fairnesses,
- un-lawfulness,
- un-lawfulnesses.
- irascibility
- malaise
- martyrdom
- misery
- mourning
- nuisance
-
obscenity
- blueness,
- immodesty,
- profaneness,
- ribaldry,
- salacity,
- scatology,
- scurrility,
- sleaze,
- smuttiness,
- swearword,
- Lubricity,
- Raunch,
- lubricities,
- sleazes,
- porn,
- bluenesses,
- dirty name,
- dirty names,
- four letter word,
- fourletter word,
- immodesties,
- in delicacies,
- in delicacy,
- in-delicacies,
- in-delicacy,
- x rating,
- x ratings,
- x-ratings,
- xrating.
- oppression
- pathos
- pest
-
state of mind
- mood.
- temper
- torment
- torture
- trauma
- trial
- unease
- unrest
- ache
- agony
- albatross
- annoyance
-
anxiety
- butterfly,
- cold sweat,
- fretfulness,
- unease,
- willies,
- worriment,
- Butterflies,
- Nail Biting,
- all overs,
- allovers,
- ants in pants,
- ants pants,
- cold sweats,
- dis quiet,
- dis quiets,
- dis quietude,
- dis quietudes,
- dis-quiet,
- dis-quiets,
- dis-quietude,
- dis-quietudes,
- fore boding,
- fore bodings,
- fore-boding,
- fretfulnesses,
- mis giving,
- mis trust,
- mis trusts,
- mis-giving,
- mis-trust,
- nail-biting,
- nail-bitings,
- nailbiting,
- pins needles,
- un certainties,
- un certainty,
- un easiness,
- un-certainties,
- un-certainty,
- un-easiness,
- un-easinesses.
- badgering
- blues
- bother
- calamity
- catastrophe
- chagrin
-
compassion
- ruth.
- despondency
- disaster
- downheartedness
- dreariness
- gloom
- grief
- harassment
- hardship
- heartache
- hurt
- impatience
-
inconvenience
- cumbersomeness,
- incommodiousness,
- troublesomeness,
- untimeliness,
- unwieldiness,
- Unhandiness,
- bothersomeness,
- bothersomenesses,
- cumbersomenesses,
- in conveniences,
- in-convenience,
- in-conveniences,
- troublesomenesses,
- un fitness,
- un fitnesses,
- un handiness,
- un handinesses,
- un suitableness,
- un suitablenesses,
- un timeliness,
- un-fitness,
- un-fitnesses,
- un-handiness,
- un-handinesses,
- un-suitableness,
- un-suitablenesses,
- un-timeliness,
- unhandinesses,
- unwieldinesses.
- injury
- ire
- melancholy
- misfortune
- mood
- outrage
- penance
- plague
- remorse
- sadness
- sorrow
- spleen
- storm
-
suffering
- woe.
- terror
- tragedy
- tribulation
- trouble
- umbrage
- unhappiness
- object of extreme dislike, hate
-
sore feeling; dull pain
- ache.
- bad luck, situation
- hurt condition; something that causes hurt
- suffering, pain
- hatred
- state of being mad, annoyed
- severe upset or pain
- worry, tension
- cruelness, offensiveness; widely condemned action
-
cause of misery
- bane.
- ennui
- trouble, inconvenience
- disaster; tragedy
- ordeal
-
personal interest, concern
- care.
- calamity; unhappy conclusion
-
displeasure
- chagrin,
- Incensement,
- dis approval,
- dis approvals,
- dis contentment,
- dis contentments,
- dis favor,
- dis favors,
- dis inclination,
- dis inclinations,
- dis liking,
- dis likings,
- dis pleasure,
- dis pleasures,
- dis relish,
- dis relishes,
- dis taste,
- dis tastes,
- dis-approval,
- dis-approvals,
- dis-contentment,
- dis-contentments,
- dis-favor,
- dis-favors,
- dis-inclination,
- dis-inclinations,
- dis-liking,
- dis-likings,
- dis-pleasure,
- dis-pleasures,
- dis-relish,
- dis-relishes,
- dis-taste,
- dis-tastes,
- dislikings,
- in disposition,
- in dispositions,
- in-disposition,
- in-dispositions,
- incensements.
- offense against the law
- everlasting punishment
- pessimism
- dissatisfaction
- low spirits; despair
- uninhabitated area; barrenness
- depression, hopelessness
- mental burden
- affliction
- accident, trouble
- disappointed feeling; distress
- unhappiness, anger
- discontent, unhappiness
- pain, agony
- misery, anguish
-
bad situation
- drag.
- horribleness
-
badness, immorality; disaster
- evil.
- upset, provocation
-
alarm, apprehension
- fear.
-
fear, depression
- funk.
- persecution
- melancholy, depression
- mental suffering
- complaint, gripe
- flagrancy
- personal burden
- anguish, sorrow
- mental or emotional misery
-
place of the condemned; bad situation
- Hell.
-
bad mood
- huff.
-
injury; damage
- hurt.
- inability, unwillingness to wait
- bother, trouble
- hurt, harm
- unfair treatment; bias
- a disturbed mental state
- great happiness, pleasure
- depression, sickness
- suffering endured for sake of a cause
- depression, sadness
- pain, mental or physical
- sadness, time of sadness
- annoyance; annoying person
- insult, displeasure
- misery, hardship
- trouble, suffering
- atrocity, evil
-
physical suffering
- pain.
-
ache, twinge
- pang.
- deep sadness
- reparation for wrong
- shame, sorrow
-
person or thing that presents problem
- pest.
- anger, irritation
-
feeling of mercy toward another
- pity.
- annoyance, curse
- upset over past action
- guilty or bad conscience
- hate, anger
- unhappiness, depression
- extreme upset, grief
- commotion, turmoil
- intense fear
- severe mental distress
- severe mental or physical pain
- trouble, big problem
- annoyance, worry
- personal displeasure
- unjustness
- state of agitation; disturbance
- anxiety, trouble
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
leading the way
- Antonyms:
- abandon, follow, misguide.
