Synonyms for sadness
sad·ness

Wiktionary(2.50 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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 Antonyms(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

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 WordNet(1.67 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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

Matched Categories

1. • Feeling
   • Uncheerfulness
   • Unhappiness

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1. melancholynoun

   Submitted by Lucifee_97 on May 27, 2022  

Dictionary of English Synonymes(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. sadnessnoun

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

2. sadnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   gloominess, mournfulness, dolefulness

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1. sadnessnoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "sadness":

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

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1. EMEASOBA GEORGE:

   You shouldn't loose your self-esteem. I mean, you've got to appreciate and value the stuff you are made of i.e. do have confidence in your own worth or abilities. For, loss of the sense of self-esteem causes depression, hopelessness, illness, anxiety, anger, sadness and a host of other negative emotions. Thus, dare to have high self-esteem and never low self-esteem. ~Emeasoba George

2. Barb Dunn:

   My first reaction is fear. Then sadness, i just heard a similar statistic about prom night being a very dangerous time. ... I think we have to take the time to to talk to our children and remind them of the risks and talk about how to minimize them.

3. Billy Kreutzmann -LRB- drums -RRB-:

   Jerry was way more than just a musician, he was a total humanitarian. I do miss him. But it's not in sadness that I miss him. I miss his energy. I miss his love of life. I miss the way that he communicated with people very succinctly, very clearly. And his musicianship goes without saying. It was incredible.

4. Carl Gustav Jung:

   There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

5. Walter Cronkite:

   The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.