Antonyms for sadnesssad·ness

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. sadnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   misfortune, forlornness, melancholy, woe

2. sadnessnoun

   The state or emotion of being sad.

   Synonyms:
   melancholy, misfortune, woe, forlornness

3. sadnessnoun

   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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. 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, wo

   Preposition:
   Grief at a loss; for a friend.

Matched Categories

1. • Feeling
   • Uncheerfulness
   • Unhappiness

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.7 / 3 votes

1. sadness, unhappinessnoun

   emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being

   Antonyms:
   happiness

   Synonyms:
   lugubriousness, sorrow, gloominess, unhappiness, sorrowfulness

2. sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulnessnoun

   the state of being sad

   "she tired of his perpetual sadness"

   Antonyms:
   happiness

   Synonyms:
   regret, unhappiness, ruefulness, grief, sorrow, gloominess, mournfulness, lugubriousness, sorrowfulness, rue, ruthfulness

3. gloominess, lugubriousness, sadnessnoun

   the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

   Antonyms:
   happiness

   Synonyms:
   sombreness, gloom, lugubriousness, glumness, sorrow, gloominess, somberness, unhappiness, sorrowfulness

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1. sadnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   melancholy, pathos, sorrow, gravity, soberness, seriousness

How to use sadness in a sentence?

1. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky:

   Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.

2. Zamzam Mohammed:

   From that corner to this one, this line of graves is all children... Zamzam Mohammed feel such pain, sadness when Zamzam Mohammed bury a baby. Zamzam Mohammed can do nothing to help. I am a mom and I can feel their pain as a parent.

3. Wasantha Seneviratne:

   There are many more( parents) who are also in deep sadness because they can't find this medication, even if they have( enough money) in their hands, we are holding in a lot of pain and sorrow. We don't have the money to take our daughter overseas for medical treatment.

4. Rory Stewart:

   It's been a great privilege to serve Penrith and The Border for the last ten years, so it is with sadness that I am announcing that I will be standing down at the next election, and that I have also resigned from the Conservative Party.

5. Caio Saldanha:

   I constantly feel huge sadness and a huge urge to get out of here, it's a nightmare.

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