ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

playful, playsome † ; folatre [Fr.], playful as a kitten, tricksy † , frisky, frolicsome;
gamesome; jocose, jocular, waggish; mirth loving, laughter-loving; mirthful, rollicking.
elate, elated; exulting, jubilant, flushed; rejoicing &c 838; cock-a-hoop.
cheering, inspiriting, exhilarating; cardiac, cardiacal † ; pleasing &c 829; palmy.
Adv. cheerfully &c adj..
Int. never say die!, come!, cheer up!, hurrah!, &c 838; hence loathed melancholy!,
begone dull care!, away with melancholy!,
Phr. a merry heart goes all the day [A winter's Tale]; as merry as the day is long [Much
Ado]; ride si sapis [Lat.] [Martial].
837. Dejection -- N. dejection; dejectedness &c adj.; depression, prosternation † ; lowness
of spirits, depression of spirits; weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on
the spirits; low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits; heart sinking;
heaviness of heart, failure of heart.
heaviness &c adj.; infestivity † , gloom; weariness &c 841; taedium vitae, disgust of
life; mal du pays &c (regret) 833; anhedonia † .
melancholy; sadness &c adj.; il penseroso [It], melancholia, dismals † , blues,
lachrymals † , mumps † , dumps, blue devils, doldrums; vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors,
hypochondriasis [Med.], pessimism; la maladie sans maladie [Fr.]; despondency, slough
of Despond; disconsolateness &c adj.; hope deferred, blank despondency; voiceless woe.
prostration of soul; broken heart; despair &c 859; cave of despair, cave of Trophonius
demureness &c adj.; gravity, solemnity; long face, grave face.
hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos † , malade imaginaire
[Fr.], medecin tant pis [Fr.]; croaker, pessimist; mope, mopus † .
[Cause of dejection] affliction &c 830; sorry sight; memento mori [Lat.]; damper, wet
blanket, Job's comforter.
V. be dejected &c adj.; grieve; mourn &c (lament) 839; take on, give way, lose heart,
despond, droop, sink.
lower, look downcast, frown, pout; hang down the head; pull a long face, make a long
face; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; grin a ghastly smile; look blue, look like a
drowned man; lay to heart, take to heart.
mope, brood over; fret; sulk; pine, pine away; yearn; repine &c (regret) 833; despair
&c 859.
refrain from laughter, keep one's countenance; be grave, look grave &c adj.; repress a
smile.
depress; discourage, dishearten; dispirit; damp, dull, deject, lower, sink, dash, knock
down, unman, prostrate, break one's heart; frown upon; cast a gloom, cast a shade on;
sadden; damp one's hopes, dash one's hopes, wither one's hopes; weigh on the mind, lie
heavy on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the spirits, prey
on the spirits; damp the spirits, depress the spirits.
Adj. cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery † ; unlively † ; unhappy &c 828;
melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste [Fr.], clouded, murky, lowering,
frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful.
dreary, flat; dull, dull as a beetle, dull as ditchwater † ; depressing &c v.. melancholy as
a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted;
down in the mouth, down in one's luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps,