Sadness

Noun

 * 1)  The state or emotion of being sad.
 * 2)  An event in one's life that causes sadness.
 * She has experienced many sadnesses in her forty years.

Synonyms

 * (state of being sad): forlornness, melancholy
 * (event causing sadness): misfortune, woe

Adjectives for Sadness
settled; deadly; unmannered; uncultivated; treasured; great; real; simple; lyrical; pensive; inexpressible; wintry; shady; mild; sober; pleasing; unfathomable; unrecumbent; sudden; unbidden; clinging; pre¬posterous; penetrating; thrilling; primeval; tender; good; prophetic; breathed; silent; mortal; humorous; painful; moody; haunting; profound; grateful; quaintest; utter; galling; compassionate; exquisite.

Verbs for Sadness
afflict with—; bow in—; brood in—; dispel —; exude—; incline toward—; induce—; mope in—; occasion—; —dampens; —deepens; —dejects; —depresses; —disheartens; —downcasts; —envelops; —hangs over; — pains; —pervades; —prevails; —racks; — rends; —seizes; —sheathes; —shrouds; — sobers; —touches; —weighs upon; —wrings.

Thesaurus
aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, bale, beggarliness, bitterness, blackishness, bleakness, bleeding heart, blue devils, blues, broken heart, cheapness, cheerlessness, comfortlessness, contemptibleness, crumminess, crushing, darkishness, darkness, darksomeness, dejectedness, dejection, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, despicableness, despondency, dinge, discomfort, disconsolateness, disconsolation, dismalness, dispiritedness, distress, distressfulness, doldrums, dolor, downcastness, downheartedness, downs, dreariness, dumps, duskiness, duskness, extremity, forlornness, funereality, funk, gaudiness, gloom, gloominess, graveness, grief, grievousness, heartache, heavy heart, heavyheartedness, hopelessness, infelicity, joylessness, lamentability, lamentation, listlessness, meanness, megrims, melancholia, melancholy, meretriciousness, meritlessness, miserableness, misery, moodiness, mopes, mournfulness, mourning, pain, painfulness, paltriness, pathos, pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, poignancy, poorness, prostration, regrettableness, shabbiness, sharpness, shoddiness, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sorriness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, suds, suicidal despair, swarth, swarthiness, swartness, unhappiness, unworthiness, vileness, woe, woebegoneness, woefulness, worthlessness, wretchedness

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