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Synonyms for sadness
sad·ness
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Wiktionary
sadnessnoun
Synonyms:
misfortune, forlornness, melancholy, woesadnessnoun
The state or emotion of being sad.
Synonyms:
melancholy, misfortune, woe, forlornnesssadnessnoun
An event in one's life that causes sadness.
She has experienced many sadnesses in her forty years.
Synonyms:
forlornness, misfortune, woe, melancholy
English Synonyms and Antonyms
sadness
Grief is acute mental pain resulting from loss, misfortune, or deep disappointment. Grief is more acute and less enduring than sorrow. Sorrow and grief are for definite cause; sadness and melancholy may arise from a vague sense of want or loss, from a low state of health, or other ill-defined cause; sadness may be momentary; melancholy is more enduring, and may become chronic. Affliction expresses a deep heart-sorrow and is applied also to the misfortune producing such sorrow; mourning most frequently denotes sorrow publicly expressed, or the public expression of such sorrow as may reasonably be expected; as, it is common to observe thirty days of mourning on the death of an officer of state.
See synonyms for HAPPINESS.
Synonyms:
affliction, distress, grief, melancholy, mourning, regret, sorrow, tribulation, trouble, woPreposition:
Grief at a loss; for a friend.
Princeton's WordNet
sadness, unhappinessnoun
emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
Synonyms:
lugubriousness, sorrow, gloominess, unhappiness, sorrowfulnessAntonyms:
happinesssadness, sorrow, sorrowfulnessnoun
the state of being sad
"she tired of his perpetual sadness"
Synonyms:
regret, unhappiness, ruefulness, grief, sorrow, gloominess, mournfulness, lugubriousness, sorrowfulness, rue, ruthfulnessAntonyms:
happinessgloominess, lugubriousness, sadnessnoun
the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
Synonyms:
sombreness, gloom, lugubriousness, glumness, sorrow, gloominess, somberness, unhappiness, sorrowfulnessAntonyms:
happiness
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Editors Contribution
melancholynoun
Submitted by Lucifee_97 on May 27, 2022
Dictionary of English Synonymes
sadnessnoun
Synonyms:
sorrow, despondency, MELANCHOLY, depression, dejection, sorrowfulness, depression of spiritssadnessnoun
Synonyms:
gloominess, mournfulness, dolefulness
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
sadnessnoun
Synonyms:
melancholy, pathos, sorrow, gravity, soberness, seriousness
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "sadness":
sorrow, grief, sad, unhappiness, regret, gloom, heaviness, spite, saddened, bitterness
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#3124 | trouble | |
#5071 | sad | |
#10700 | grief | |
#10782 | spite | |
#11529 | rue | |
#12121 | regret | |
#12669 | distress | |
#12972 | wo | |
#14621 | sorrow | |
#18051 | sadness | |
#19478 | mourning | |
#25291 | melancholy | |
#25704 | woe | |
#28338 | gloom | |
#29904 | bitterness | |
#31190 | misfortune | |
#36859 | tribulation | |
#37535 | affliction | |
#39755 | saddened | |
#48275 | unhappiness | |
#67682 | heaviness | |
#330484 | gloominess |
How to use sadness in a sentence?
When coronavirus arrived in Yemen, it came around the end of the month of Ramadan ... since then, we've kept on digging and digging. We can't keep up, you feel the worst pain with the children, when you have to bury a child. You feel sorrow, sadness. My thoughts go out to the parents.
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez:
There's simply no words to adequately express our heartbreak, our sadness at this time.
A happiness that comes attached to an if or something else is sadness in disguise, choose to be happy and you will be happy whether poor or rich, small or big.
Michelle and I know several members of the Emanuel AME church, we knew their pastor, Rev. Clementa Pinckney who, along with eight others, gathered in prayer and fellowship and was murdered last night. And to say our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families and their community doesn't say enough to convey the heartache and sadness and the anger that we feel.
It's emotional. Nathalie Emmanuel said she was willing to lay down her life but we hoped she wouldn't have to, you can watch the end of a show and think the character is living on to do whatever. But there's a real sadness to the fact that the character won't.
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