English > sadness: 3 senses > noun 1, feeling| Meaning | 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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