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Sanguine (adj.)
After acing his final, David was sanguine about his prospects for a goos overall course grade.
- Cheerfully optimistic
- Synonyms: blithe, buoyant
- Antonyms: morose, forlorn, melancholy, sullen
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Phlegmatic (adj.)
His prolonged illness turned julio from a spry, happy bon vivant into a morose and phlegmatic bore.
- Sluggish
- Synonyms: languorous, lethargic, somnolent, torpid
- Antonyms: vigorous, vibrant, hale, spry
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Melancholy (adj.)
She has been so melancholy ever since she broke up with her boyfriend; sometimes she is even too depressed to talk with her friends.
- Sad, Depressed ( melan-black + choler bile)
- Synonyms: morose, despondent, disconsolate, sullen
- Antonyms: blithe, buoyant, sanguine
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Choleric ( adj.)
Gena's mom is really nice but her dad is choleric; he freaks out about the smallest things.
- Easily angered (choler- bile + -ic characterized by)
- Synonyms: irascible, fractious, bilious, splenetic
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Recalcitrant (adj.)
Christine is a talented volleyball player, but she's so recalcitrant that our coach often keeps her on the bench.
- Stubbirnly resistant to authority (re- back + calcitrare kick)
- Synonyms: refractory, intractable
- Antonyms: compliant, docile, tractable, obsequious, obeisant
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Lethargic (adj.)
After three weeks of factoring polynomials, my entire class became lethargic; we were boreed to death!
- Sluggish; dully apathetic
- Synonyms: languorous, phlegmatic, torpid
- Antonyms: vigorous, vibrant, hale, spry
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Splenetic (adj.)
- Irritable; easily angered (splen- spleen)
- Synonyms: bilious, choleric
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Querulous (adj.)
- Disposed to complaining
- Synonyms: peevish, captious, carping, caviling
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Dolorous (adj.)
- Marked by or expressive of sorrow or pain (dolor- pain)
- Synonyms: lugubrious, doleful
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Animosity (n.)
- Hostility; ill-will ( animosus bold)
- Synonyms: malevolence, antagonism, invidiousness
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Pusillanimous (adj.)
- Cowardly ( pusillus- weak +anima spirit)
- Synonyms: timorous, craven, dastardly
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Lassitude (n.)
- Feeling of weakness or listlessness
- Synonyms: lethargy, languor, torpor, stupor
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