Vapors (Noun)
Meaning
A state of depression; "he had a bad case of the blues".
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- The loss of his job left him in a deep funk, surrounded by the dark vapors of despair and hopelessness.
- Her recent break-up had left her in a haze of emotional vapors, unable to motivate herself to do anything.
- After the failure of his business, he struggled with the vapors of disappointment and frustration that followed.
- The cold winter months always seemed to bring on a case of the vapors, a seasonal sadness that was hard to shake.
- The poet's melancholy verse was infused with the vapors of sorrow and longing, a reflection of his own troubled state of mind.