Anguish
Anguish noun - Deep sadness especially for the loss of someone or something loved.
Usage example: words can't express my anguish at losing my cat
Depression is a synonym for anguish. In some cases you can use "Depression" instead a noun "Anguish".
Nearby Words: anguished, anguishing
Depression
Depression noun - A state or spell of low spirits.
Usage example: we threw our friend a party just to jar him out of his depression
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- sadness and anguish
- sadness and depression
- distress and anguish
- distress and depression
- melancholy and anguish
- melancholy and depression
- despondency and anguish
- despondency and depression
- dejection and anguish
- dejection and depression
- despair and anguish
- despair and depression
- sorrow and anguish
- sorrow and depression
How words are described
| emotional | emotional anguish | emotional depression |
| human | human anguish | human depression |
| physical | physical anguish | physical depression |
| pure | pure anguish | pure depression |
| Other adjectives: utter, genuine, deep, constant, severe, extreme, intense, serious, slight, inner, mental, possible, immense, repressed, inescapable, existential. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- The song called Long Happy Life by Soviet-Russian Punk Rock singer Yegor Letov describes (in a very bizarre way) his And I Must Scream state of anhedonia, depression and anguish during abstinent syndrome after numerous alcohol and drug overdoses.
Source: Never Trust a Title -
But even after this, Basil utterly ignores the entreaties of the heroes to obsessively test his theory on matching bullets, howling in anguish when he is proved wrong and slipping into a spell of depression.
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South Park: Stan Marsh has endured a lot of anguish from the idiotic citizens of South Park (Let alone his father), to the point that his growing cynicism and depression was the subject of a particularly heavy two-parter.
Source: Byronic Hero
Cite this Source
Depression and Anguish. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/anguish/depression
Anguish & Depression. N.p., 2016. Web. 02 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/anguish/depression>.
Depression or Anguish. 2016. Accessed August 02, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/anguish/depression.
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