Antonyms for ennui
ɑnˈwien·nui

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1. ennui

   Antonyms:
   amusement, cheer, delight, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, frolic, fun, merriment, pastime, pleasure, recreation, sport

   Synonyms:
   fatigue, labor, lassitude, toil, weariness, work

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1. • Dissatisfaction

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. boredom, ennui, tediumnoun

   the feeling of being bored by something tedious

   Synonyms:
   tiresomeness, tedium, boredom, tediousness

How to use ennui in a sentence?

1. M. F. K. Fisher:

   Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

2. Cervantes:

   Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.

3. Sir B. Brodie:

   The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

4. Abraham Myerson:

   Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.

5. Luke Rhinehart:

   Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

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