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noun
The state or emotion of being sad.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: forlornness, melancholy
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An event in one's life that causes sadness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Synonyms: misfortune, woe, affliction, aggrievance, distress, grief, grievance, hardship, misery, ruth, sadness, sorrow, undelight, vexation, wrong
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: gloominess, lugubriousness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: uncheerfulness
noun
emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: unhappiness
Antonyms: happiness
Broader terms: feeling
Narrower terms: dolefulness, heaviness, melancholy, misery, forlornness, loneliness, desolation, weepiness, tearfulness, sorrow, regret, rue, ruefulness, cheerlessness, uncheerfulness, depression, downheartedness, dejectedness, low-spiritedness, lowness, dispiritedness
noun
the state of being sad
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: sorrow, sorrowfulness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unhappiness
Narrower terms: mourning, bereavement, poignance, poignancy
History
From Middle English sadnesse, equivalent to sad + -ness.
Across languages
147 source translations are retained for this English entry.
