English > sadness: 3 senses > noun 1, feelingMeaning | emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being. |
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Synonym | unhappiness |
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Narrower | cheerlessness, uncheerfulness | A feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness |
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depression | sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy |
dolefulness | sadness caused by grief or affliction |
downheartedness, dejectedness, low-spiritedness, lowness, dispiritedness | A feeling of low spirits |
forlornness, loneliness, desolation | sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned |
heaviness | persisting sadness |
melancholy | A feeling of thoughtful sadness |
misery | A feeling of intense unhappiness |
sorrow | An emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement |
sorrow, regret, rue, ruefulness | sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment |
weepiness, tearfulness | sadness expressed by weeping |
Broader | feeling | The experiencing of affective and emotional states |
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Opposite | happiness | emotions experienced when in a state of well-being |
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Spanish | desdicha, infelicidad, melancolía, tristeza |
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Catalan | desgràcia, dissort, infelicitat, tristesa |
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Adjectives | sad | experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness |
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