Happiness and Unhappiness

A. If you feel:
1. Ecstatic: when you experience an intense and overpowering feeling of delight.
2. Content(ed): when you are satisfied with what you have.
3. Cheerful: when life is looking bright and positive.
4. Grateful: when someone has done something thoughtful for you.
5. Delighted: when something has happened that gives you great pleasure, when you have news of someone’s good fortune, for instance.
6. Miserable: when everything seems wrong in your life.
7. Discontented: when your life is not giving you satisfaction.
8. Fed-up/ sick and tired: when you have had enough of something disagreeable. You could be fed-up with someone’s rudeness, or sick (and tired) of someone’s behavior.
9. Depressed: when you are miserable over a long period of time. Depression is considered an illness in some severe cases.
10. Frustrated: when you are unable to do something that you want to do.
11. Confused/ mixed up: when you cannot make sense of different conflicting feelings or ideas; mixed up is more colloquial. 

B. Note. Really can be used with all the adjectives on the above. Absolutely goes only with the words describing extreme states (i.e. ecstatic, delighted, fed-up, sick and tired). With these words quite means absolutely but with the other less extreme words, quite means rather.

(Source: English Vocabulary in Use, Cambridge University Press)

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