Antonyms for dumps

Grammar : Noun

Spell : duhmps

Phonetic Transcription : dʌmps

Definition of dumps

Origin : "low spirits," 1520s, plural of dumpe "a fit of musing," possibly from Dutch domp "haze, mist," from Middle Dutch damp "vapor" (see damp (n.)).

noun depression

Example sentences :

You needn't get into the dumps because you've failed to make good as a journalist.
Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine

That funny dog, Loubet, he was the man to cure one of the dumps if anybody could!
Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola

The patients like me, and they don't die of the dumps when I am about.
Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine

You see, he had so many years of being one of the Dumps to make up for!
Extract from : « Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) » by Various

What mattered it to me now, this babble of dumps and dust, of claims and clean-ups?
Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service

So I lugs in the mail, dumps it in the tray, and leaves him with it.
Extract from : « Torchy, Private Sec. » by Sewell Ford

You are enough to give the dumps to a man with the tooth-ache.
Extract from : « The Cave of Gold » by Everett McNeil

Can you deny what is in everybody's mouth, when a person is in the dumps?
Extract from : « Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote » by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end.
Extract from : « A Study In Scarlet » by Arthur Conan Doyle

An' he had a laugh t' shame the dumps—a laugh as catchin' as smallpox.
Extract from : « Harbor Tales Down North » by Norman Duncan

Synonyms for dumps

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