sadness

SAD

abbr.

seasonal affective disorder

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sad  (sd)

adj. sad·der, sad·dest

1. Affected or characterized by sorrow or unhappiness.

2. Expressive of sorrow or unhappiness.

3. Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing: a sad movie; sad news.

4. Deplorable; sorry: a sad state of affairs; a sad excuse.

5. Dark-hued; somber.

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[Middle English, weary, sorrowful, from Old English sæd, sated, weary; see s- in Indo-European roots.]

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sadly adv.

sadness n.

Synonyms: sad, melancholy, sorrowful, doleful, woebegone, desolate
These adjectives mean affected with or marked by unhappiness, as that caused by affliction. Sad is the most general: "Better by far you should forget and smile/Than that you should remember and be sad" (Christina Rossetti).
Melancholy can refer to lingering or habitual somberness or sadness: a melancholy poet's gloomy introspection.
Sorrowful applies to emotional pain as that resulting from loss: sorrowful mourners at the funeral.
Doleful describes what is mournful or morose: the doleful expression of a reprimanded child.
Woebegone suggests grief or wretchedness, especially as reflected in a person's appearance: "His sorrow . . . made him look . . . haggard and . . . woebegone" (George du Maurier).
Desolate applies to one that is beyond consolation: "No one is so accursed by fate,/No one so utterly desolate,/But some heart, though unknown,/Responds unto his own" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sadness - emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being unhappiness feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" dolefulness - sadness caused by grief or affliction heaviness - persisting sadness; "nothing lifted the heaviness of her heart after her loss" melancholy - a feeling of thoughtful sadness misery - a feeling of intense unhappiness; "she was exhausted by her misery and grief" forlornness, loneliness, desolation - sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned tearfulness, weepiness - sadness expressed by weeping sorrow - an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement; "he tried to express his sorrow at her loss" regret, ruefulness, sorrow, rue - sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment; "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him the game" cheerlessness, uncheerfulness - a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness depression - sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy dejectedness, dispiritedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness, lowness - a feeling of low spirits; "he felt responsible for her lowness of spirits" happiness - emotions experienced when in a state of well-being
	2.	sadness - the state of being sad; "she tired of his perpetual sadness" sorrowfulness, sorrow unhappiness - state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief bereavement, mourning - state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one poignance, poignancy - a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow; "a moment of extraordinary poignancy"
	3.	sadness - the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness lugubriousness, gloominess uncheerfulness - not conducive to cheer or good spirits

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sadness

noun unhappiness, sorrow, grief, tragedy, depression, the blues, misery, melancholy, poignancy, despondency, bleakness, heavy heart, dejection, wretchedness, gloominess, mournfulness, dolour (poetic) dolefulness, cheerlessness, sorrowfulness << OPPOSITE happiness

Translations

sadness [ˈsædnɪs] n → tristeza

sadness [ˈsædnɪs] n → tristesse f

sadness [ˈsædnɪs] sad n → Traurigkeit f

sadness [ˈsædnɪs] n → tristezza