This document defines and provides examples of a variety of pleasant, unpleasant, and mixed feelings. It discusses positive feelings like happiness, contentment, gratitude, and delight. It also examines negative feelings such as unhappiness, misery, depression, confusion, and anger. Additionally, it covers feelings of excitement, frustration, anxiety, and more mixed states. For each feeling, it gives a definition and example sentences to illustrate how to use the terms to describe emotional states.

1. Unit 41 Pleasant and
unpleasant feelings

2. • A. Happiness and unhappiness

3. 
You are satisfied with what you have.
He’s very cont_____/cont_____ with his life.
He’s a cont_____ed person.

4. 
You are satisfied with what you have.
He’s very content/contented with his life.
He’s a contented person.

5. 
Someone has done something thoughtful for
you.
I’m really gr_____ to you for helping me with
my project.
Note :
You feel th_____ if something bad that could
have happened did not happen.

6. 
Someone has done something thoughtful for
you.
I’m really grateful to you for helping me with
my project.
Note :
You feel thankful if something bad that could
have happened did not happen.

7. 
Something has happened that gives you great
pleasure. You hear news of someone’s good
fortune, for instance.
I was del_____ to hear you’re getting married.

8. 
Something has happened that gives you great
pleasure. You hear news of someone’s good
fortune, for instance.
I was delighted to hear you’re getting married.

9. 
Everything seems wrong in your life.
I felt mis_____ all day yesterday – maybe it was
just the grey, cold weather.

10. 
Everything seems wrong in your life.
I felt miserable all day yesterday – maybe it was
just the grey, cold weather.

11. 
Your life is not giving you satisfaction.
She’s very disc_____ed with her job and is going
to look for a new one.

12. 
Your life is not giving you satisfaction.
She’s very discontented with her job and is
going to look for a new one.

13. 
You have had enough of something
disagreeable.
I’m f_____ up with Amanda’s rudeness and
s_____ (and t_____) of her bad behaviour.

14. 
You have had enough of something
disagreeable.
I’m fed up with Amanda’s rudeness and sick
(and tired) of her bad behaviour.

15. 
You are miserable over a long period of time.
Depr_____ is considered an illness in some
severe cases.
I felt depr_____ after having ten job interviews
and not getting a job.

16. 
You are miserable over a long period of time.
Depression is considered an illness in some
severe cases.
I felt depressed after having ten job interviews
and not getting a job.

17. 
You cannot make sense of different conflicting
feelings or ideas.
I feel so conf_____ - last week she said she
loved me passionately, this week she said we
were just good friends.

18. 
You cannot make sense of different conflicting
feelings or ideas.
I feel so confused - last week she said she loved
me passionately, this week she said we were
just good friends.

19. • B. Excitement, upset, anger
and anxiety

20. 
You are stimulated to do something positive or
creative.
I felt insp_____ after the concert. I’ve decided to
take piano lessons.

21. 
You are stimulated to do something positive or
creative.
I felt inspired after the concert. I’ve decided to
take piano lessons.

22. 
Something made me feel unhappy.
The argument I had with Gloria the other night
really ups_____ me.

23. 
Something made me feel unhappy.
The argument I had with Gloria the other night
really upset me.

24. 
At first I had very positive feelings but now I
have a feeling of being unable to do what I
really wanted to do.
I was quite enth_____ about my tennis lessons at
first, but the teacher isn’t very good and now I
just feel fr_____.

25. 
At first I had very positive feelings but now I
have a feeling of being unable to do what I
really wanted to do.
I was quite enthusiastic about my tennis lessons
at first, but the teacher isn’t very good and
now I just feel frustrated.

26. 
Something extremely exciting and pleasing
happened.
She was so thr_____ when she got a job with a
TV company. She’s always wanted to work in
the media.

27. 
Something extremely exciting and pleasing
happened.
She was so thrilled when she got a job with a TV
company. She’s always wanted to work in the
media.

28. 
You are not calm and you are also worried and
uncertain about the future.
I was so nerv_____ before the exam, and then I
felt anx_____ before the results came out, but
I passed with a high grade.

29. 
You are not calm and you are also worried and
uncertain about the future.
I was so nervous before the exam, and then I felt
anxious before the results came out, but I
passed with a high grade.

30. 
You are extremely angry.
I was fur_____ with the waiter. The service was
slow and he spilt coffee over my shirt.

31. 
You are extremely angry.
I was furious with the waiter. The service was
slow and he spilt coffee over my shirt.

32. 
You want to say how good or bad you feel.
I was re_____/qu_____/ ra_____ content (ed),
grateful, delighted, miserable, fed up/sick and
t i r e d , d e pr e sse d , c onf use d , i nspi r e d ,
enthusiastic, frustrated, thrilled , nervous,
anxious, furious.
Note : you can use ‘r___’ with all the above
words describing feelings. With these less
extreme words ‘qu_____’ means ‘r_____’.

33. 
You want to say how good or bad you feel.
I was really/quite/rather content (ed), grateful,
delighted, miserable, fed up/sick and tired,
depressed, confused, inspired, enthusiastic,
frustrated, thrilled , nervous, anxious, furious.
Note : you can use ‘really’ with all the above
words describing feelings. With these less
extreme words ‘quite’ means ‘rather’.

34. 
You want to say how good or bad you feel.
I was abs_____ delighted, fed up/sick and tired,
thrilled, furious.
Note : you can only use ‘ab_____ ‘ with the above
words describing extreme states. With these
extreme words ‘qu_____’ means ‘abs_____’.

35. 
You want to say how good or bad you feel.
I was absolutely delighted, fed up/sick and
tired, thrilled, furious.
Note : you can only use ‘absolutely ‘ with the
above words describing extreme states. With
these extreme words ‘quite’ means ‘abolutely’.