What are some opposite words for rejoicing?

Antonyms for rejoicing
rɪˈdʒɔɪ sɪŋre·joic·ing

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  1. rejoicing

    Gratification is the giving any mental or physical desire something that it craves; satisfaction is the giving such a desire all that it craves. Happiness is the positively agreeable experience that springs from the possession of good, the gratification or satisfaction of the desires or the relief from pain and evil. Comfort may be almost wholly negative, being found in security or relief from that which pains or annoys; there is comfort by a warm fireside on a wintry night; the sympathy of a true friend affords comfort in sorrow. Enjoyment is more positive, always implying something to be definitely and consciously delighted in; a sick person finds comfort in relief from pain, while he may be far from a state of enjoyment. Pleasure is still more vivid, being an arousing of the faculties to an intensely agreeable activity; satisfaction is more tranquil than pleasure, being the agreeable consciousness of having all that our faculties demand or crave; when a worthy pleasure is past, a worthy satisfaction remains. As referring to a mental state, gratification is used to denote a mild form of happiness resulting from some incident not of very great importance; satisfaction should properly express a happiness deeper, more complete, and more abiding; but as intellect or sensibilities of a low order may find satisfaction in that which is very poor or unworthy, the word has come to be feeble and tame in ordinary use. Happiness is more positive than comfort, enjoyment, or satisfaction, more serene and rational than pleasure; pleasure is of necessity transient; happiness is abiding, and may be eternal; thus, we speak of pleasures, but the plural of happiness is scarcely used. Happiness, in the full sense, is mental or spiritual or both, and is viewed as resulting from some worthy gratification or satisfaction; we may speak of a brute as experiencing comfort or pleasure, but scarcely as in possession of happiness; we speak of vicious pleasure, delight, or joy, but not of vicious happiness. Felicity is a philosophical term, colder and more formal than happiness. Gladness is happiness that overflows, expressing itself in countenance, voice, manner, and action. Joy is more intense than happiness, deeper than gladness, to which it is akin, nobler and more enduring than pleasure. Gaiety is more superficial than joy, more demonstrative than gladness. Rejoicing is happiness or joy that finds utterance in word, song, festivity, etc. Delight is vivid, overflowing happiness of a somewhat transient kind; ecstasy is a state of extreme or extravagant delight so that the one affected by it seems almost beside himself with joy; rapture is closely allied to ecstasy, but is more serene, exalted, and enduring. Triumph is such joy as results from victory, success, achievement. Blessedness is at once the state and the sense of being divinely blessed; as, the blessedness of the righteous. Bliss is ecstatic, perfected happiness; as, the bliss of heaven. Compare COMFORT.

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    Synonyms:
    blessedness, bliss, cheer, comfort, contentment, delight, ecstasy, enjoyment, felicity, gaiety, gladness, gratification, happiness, joy, merriment, mirth, pleasure, rapture, satisfaction, triumph

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  1. rejoicingnoun

    a feeling of great happiness

    Antonyms:
    dejected

    Synonyms:
    jubilation, exultation

  2. exultation, rejoicing, jubilationadjective

    the utterance of sounds expressing great joy

    Antonyms:
    dejected

    Synonyms:
    exultation, jubilancy, jubilation, jubilance, celebration

  3. exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphantadjective

    joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success

    "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout"

    Antonyms:
    dejected

    Synonyms:
    disdainful, jubilant, exulting, triumphal, imperious, joyful, lordly, prideful, exultant, gleeful, victorious, supercilious, sniffy, overbearing, haughty, triumphant, swaggering, elated

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  1. rejoicingnoun

    Synonyms:
    joy, gladness, exultation, delight, pleasure

How to use rejoicing in a sentence?

  1. Jorge Felix:

    Peace reigns in this hemisphere, these are two countries who have confronted each other for fifty something years, and on this occasion the visit of the U.S. president to Cuba is reason for happiness and rejoicing.

  2. Jorge Felix:

    These are two countries who have confronted each other for fifty something years, and on this occasion the visit of the U.S. president to Cuba is reason for happiness and rejoicing, we are going to give him a box of Habanos.

  3. Aristotle:

    The wicked have no stability, for they do not remain in consistency with themselves; they continue friends only for a short time, rejoicing in each other?s wickedness.

  4. John Kelly:

    They're rejoicing in the fact that that wall will be slower to be built and consequently our southwest border under less control than it could be.

  5. Charles R. Swindoll:

    Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.

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