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Wiktionary2.5 / 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 Antonyms2.0 / 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.

Princeton's WordNet1.7 / 3 votes

  1. sadness, unhappinessnoun

    emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being

    Synonyms:
    lugubriousness, sorrow, gloominess, unhappiness, sorrowfulness

    Antonyms:
    happiness

  2. sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulnessnoun

    the state of being sad

    "she tired of his perpetual sadness"

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

    Antonyms:
    happiness

  3. gloominess, lugubriousness, sadnessnoun

    the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

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

    Antonyms:
    happiness

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. melancholynoun

    Submitted by Lucifee_97 on May 27, 2022  

Dictionary of English Synonymes5.0 / 1 vote

  1. sadnessnoun

    Synonyms:
    sorrow, despondency, MELANCHOLY, depression, dejection, sorrowfulness, depression of spirits

  2. sadnessnoun

    Synonyms:
    gloominess, mournfulness, dolefulness

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. sadnessnoun

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "sadness":

    sorrow, grief, sad, unhappiness, regret, gloom, heaviness, spite, saddened, bitterness

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How to use sadness in a sentence?

  1. Chriss Teigen:

    Late one night, I was told it would be time to let go in the morning. I cried a little at first, then went into full blown convulsions of snot and tears, my breath not able to catch up with my own incredibly deep sadness. Even as I write this now, I can feel the pain all over again. Oxygen was placed over my nose and mouth, and that was the first picture you saw. Utter and complete sadness.

  2. Ishiuchi Miyako:

    I was pretty nervous when I came face to face with her things but ... little by little it was like I could communicate with her, i saw the sense of sadness in her belongings, there was no one left to wear them because Frida died so long ago. It was the same sadness I saw left behind by the women who died in Hiroshima.

  3. Adrien Brody:

    I'm filled with a lot of sadness tonight because I'm accepting an award at such a strange time, my experience of making this film made me very aware of the sadness and the dehumanization of people at the times of war, and the repercussions of war.

  4. Richard Milhous Nixon:

    The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

  5. Rainer Maria Rilke:

    Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.


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