Feeling Flashcards
heart-rending
(adj.) pitiful
Eg: heart-rending
sinister
(adj. ) frightening, threatening
eg: No matter how sinister the developments in Russia
erroneous
fallacious
incredulity
(n. ) disbelief, dubiety
eg: The claim invites incredulity
subterfuge
(n. ) deceit used in order to achieve one’s goal
eg: If that is so, subterfuge is taken to new heights
disconsolate
(adj.) dispirited, unhappy, discouraged
Eg: She left Abby looking disconsolate
lassistude
(n. ) exhaustion, lethargy, weariness
eg: The lassitude displayed by these children is worrying.
irate
(adj.) extremely angry, furious, enraged
Eg: Do you feel irate when you see food being wasted?
lamentable
(adj.) very unsatisfactory or disappointing
melancholy
(adj. ) sad, depressed
eg: casting a melancholy mood over space research at the time
malaise
(n.) feeling of unease, depression, melancholy
Eg: She is offering her help to people with malaise
nonplussed
(adj.) confused, bewildered, baffled, so surprised by something that you do not know what to do
Eg: Many people all over the world are nonplussed that such experiments are being allowed due to ethical reasons.
morose
(adj.) very unhappy, bad-tempered
Eg: More people will then feel less morose.
nostalgic
(adj.) sentimental, wistful
Eg: Improvements in technology are taking place at a rapid rate making some people feel nostalgic about the simple past
macabre
(adj.) ghastly, morbid, grisly, gruesome
Eg: DNA fingerprinting has been used to solve many crimes, some of which are particularly macabre.
neurotic
(adj.) fearful, unreasonably anxious or afraid
Eg: The recent assassination of his half-bro Kim Jong Nam is believed to have been engineered by North Korea and shows how neurotic the North Korean leader is.
ominous
(adj.) threatening, menacing
Eg: The investigation is ominous
overwrought
(adj.) very upset, nervous, worried
Eg: causing families of the victims to be overwrought
daunting
(adj.) frightening in a way that makes you feel less confident, intimidating
Eg: Despite global challenges and economic uncertainty, Ms Lagarde is dauntless
disconcerting
(adj. ) disturbing, bewildering, perplexing, alarming
eg: It is disconcerting that each day, 36 ppl in SG are told that they have cancer.
disconsolate
(adj. ) feeling extremely sad or hopeless
eg: In the past, human was short-lived due to a lack of medication leaving many disconsolate.
ebullient
(adj. ) happy and excited, cheerful, lively
eg: children who are formerly ebullient become withdrawn and retreat into their own worlds