Synonyms for sadness
sad·ness

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1. sadnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   misfortune, forlornness, melancholy, woe

2. sadnessnoun

   The state or emotion of being sad.

   Synonyms:
   melancholy, misfortune, woe, forlornness

3. sadnessnoun

   An event in one's life that causes sadness.

   She has experienced many sadnesses in her forty years.

   Synonyms:
   forlornness, misfortune, woe, melancholy

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. sadness

   Grief is acute mental pain resulting from loss, misfortune, or deep disappointment. Grief is more acute and less enduring than sorrow. Sorrow and grief are for definite cause; sadness and melancholy may arise from a vague sense of want or loss, from a low state of health, or other ill-defined cause; sadness may be momentary; melancholy is more enduring, and may become chronic. Affliction expresses a deep heart-sorrow and is applied also to the misfortune producing such sorrow; mourning most frequently denotes sorrow publicly expressed, or the public expression of such sorrow as may reasonably be expected; as, it is common to observe thirty days of mourning on the death of an officer of state.

   See synonyms for HAPPINESS.

   Synonyms:
   affliction, distress, grief, melancholy, mourning, regret, sorrow, tribulation, trouble, wo

   Preposition:
   Grief at a loss; for a friend.

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1. sadness, unhappinessnoun

   emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being

   Synonyms:
   lugubriousness, sorrow, gloominess, unhappiness, sorrowfulness

   Antonyms:
   happiness

2. sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulnessnoun

   the state of being sad

   "she tired of his perpetual sadness"

   Synonyms:
   regret, unhappiness, ruefulness, grief, sorrow, gloominess, mournfulness, lugubriousness, sorrowfulness, rue, ruthfulness

   Antonyms:
   happiness

3. gloominess, lugubriousness, sadnessnoun

   the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

   Synonyms:
   sombreness, gloom, lugubriousness, glumness, sorrow, gloominess, somberness, unhappiness, sorrowfulness

   Antonyms:
   happiness

Matched Categories

1. • Feeling
   • Uncheerfulness
   • Unhappiness

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1. melancholynoun

   Submitted by Lucifee_97 on May 27, 2022  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. sadnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   sorrow, despondency, MELANCHOLY, depression, dejection, sorrowfulness, depression of spirits

2. sadnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   gloominess, mournfulness, dolefulness

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sadnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   melancholy, pathos, sorrow, gravity, soberness, seriousness

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1. List of paraphrases for "sadness":

   sorrow, grief, sad, unhappiness, regret, gloom, heaviness, spite, saddened, bitterness

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1. Shark Tank:

   I'm overwhelmed with sadness for the lost lives in the DR and my thoughts are with the families who have lost their loved ones. Thank you for all your thoughts and good wishes. I appreciate your love and kindness.

2. Richard Sedillot:

   We remain extremely cautious. Everything can change from one day to the next, i am torn between an extreme sadness to learn that other condemned could be executed and the relief to learn that the man I was defending for eight years could at this stage be spared.

3. Tom Gates:

   Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.

4. Mariana Fulger:

   Happiness and sadness – veils of conscience between the brims of soul, of soul between the brims of hope of time.

5. Dominic Wilkinson:

   Sometimes, the sad fact is that parents do not know what is best for their child, they are led by their grief and their sadness, their understandable desire to hold on to their child, to request treatment that will not and can not help.