Some words that express feelings and emotions :
| Positive emotions | Negative Emotions |
| joy – gaiety – delight – cheerfulness – merriment – vivacity – calm – satisfaction – enthusiasm – optimism – jubilation | anger – despair – depression – loneliness – sadness – frustration – worry – fear |
Some idiomatic expressions used to describe good and bad moods :
| Good mood | Bad mood |
| The news of my brother’s success reallylifted my spirits.
Things are looking uptoday. Sam has been walking on air since he won a poetry prize. My spirits rose when I opened the box and found a nice watch. |
I’m feeling quite downactually.
My heart sank when I saw the ambulance. Lara was in the depths of despair after she got that terrible grade. I’ve been really lowrecently. |
