TOPIC: EMOTIONS & FEELINGS COLLOCATIONS
COLLOCATION
1. Blissfully happy
Meaning: extremely or completely happy
Example: You will be blissfully happy after your marriage.
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4. Lasting happiness
Meaning: able to endure happiness over a long period of time
Example: Parents hopes that marriage brings lasting happiness in their daughter’s life.
5. The happy couple
Meaning: an engaged or recently married couple
Example: I had done the photoshoot of the beautiful happy couple.
6. Happy occasion
Meaning: A significant event, especially a large or important social gathering
Example: I always wear new designer clothes in all our happy occasion.
7. Desperately sad
Meaning: something sad or hopeless
Example: When I saw the report of my uncle’s cancer, I have felt desperately sad.
8. Deeply depressed
Meaning: unhappy and without hope
Example: My sister was deeply depressed because of her unexpected result.
9. Bitterly disappointed
Meaning: shows strong negative emotion such as anger
Example: I was bitterly disappointed when my dad scolds me badly.
10. Express my disappointment
Meaning: to show the feeling of disappointment
Example: I express my disappointment to my friend without saying a single word.
11. Emotional response
Meaning: a reaction to a particular feelings of heart
Example: It’s really not an easy task to give a pure emotional response.
12. Great sadness
Meaning: very/ extremely sad feelings
Example: I felt a great sadness when I was going Canada for two years.
13. Mounting anger
Meaning: increasing, especially in a way that makes a situation worse
Example: There was mounting anger among business man over the recent GST tax rate.
14. Aroused feeling
Meaning: To cause (someone) to be active, attentive, or excited in terms of feeling
Example: Employees has especially aroused feelings of resentment in the company.
15. Seething with anger
Meaning: anger you can barely contain
Example: The manager of my company was seething with anger over the insult.
16. Emotional involvement
Meaning: psychologically involvement
Example: The emotional involvement between mother and child is intense.
17. Emotional wreck
Meaning: someone who cannot control their emotions
Example: Prem was an emotional wreck after his breakup.