Akademik

sadness

noun

1. emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being (Freq. 2)

• Syn: ↑unhappiness

• Ant: ↑happiness

• Derivationally related forms: ↑unhappy (for: ↑unhappiness), ↑sad

• Hypernyms: ↑feeling

• Hyponyms:

↑dolefulness, ↑heaviness, ↑melancholy, ↑misery, ↑forlornness, ↑loneliness, ↑desolation, ↑weepiness, ↑tearfulness, ↑sorrow, ↑regret, ↑rue, ↑ruefulness, ↑cheerlessness, ↑uncheerfulness, ↑depression, ↑downheartedness, ↑dejectedness, ↑low-spiritedness, ↑lowness, ↑dispiritedness

2. the state of being sad

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she tired of his perpetual sadness

• Syn: ↑sorrow, ↑sorrowfulness

• Derivationally related forms: ↑sorrowful (for: ↑sorrowfulness), ↑sorrow (for: ↑sorrow), ↑sad

• Hypernyms: ↑unhappiness

• Hyponyms: ↑mourning, ↑bereavement, ↑poignance, ↑poignancy

3. the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

• Syn: ↑gloominess, ↑lugubriousness

• Derivationally related forms: ↑sad, ↑lugubrious (for: ↑lugubriousness), ↑gloomy (for: ↑gloominess)

• Hypernyms: ↑uncheerfulness

Useful english dictionary. 2012.