Antonyms for joy

feeling:

sorrow.

great happiness, pleasure:

woe, discouragement, mourning, unhappiness, sadness, misery, seriousness, dislike, vocation, melancholy, work, sorrow, depression.

noun:

wretchedness, joylessness, purgatory, cheerlessness, calamity, woefulness, sufferance, ill-being, plaintiveness, Desolateness, melancholy, disheartenment.