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Definitions for Sadness

[1] affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful: to feel sad because a close friend has moved away.
[2] expressive of or characterized by sorrow: sad looks; a sad song.
[3] causing sorrow: a sad disappointment; sad news.
[4] (of color) somber, dark, or dull; drab.
[5] deplorably bad; sorry: a sad attempt.
[6] Obsolete . firm or steadfast.
[7] seasonal affective disorder
[8] feeling sorrow; unhappy
[9] causing, suggestive, or expressive of such feelings a sad story
[10] unfortunate; unsatisfactory; shabby; deplorable her clothes were in a sad state
[11] British informal ludicrously contemptible; pathetic he's a sad, boring little wimp
[12] (of pastry, cakes, etc) not having risen fully; heavy
[13] (of a colour) lacking brightness; dull or dark
[14] archaic serious; grave
[15] NZ to express sadness or displeasure strongly

Words related to Sadness

sadheartache, melancholy, sorrow, poignancy, mourning, grief, heartbreak, hopelessness, misery, anguish, distress, letdown, tribulation, bummer, woe, downer, dejection, despondency, listlessness, funk

Words nearby Sadness

sadsacrosciatic, sacrospinal, sacrotransverse position, sacrovertebral, sacrum, sad, sad case, sad sack, sad tree, sad-faced, sadaqat

Origin of Sadness

before 1000; Middle English; Old English sæd grave, heavy, weary, orig. sated, full; cognate with German satt, Gothic saths full, satisfied; akin to Latin satis enough, satur sated, Greek hádēn enough. See satiate, saturate

Other words from Sadness

sad·ly , adverb
sad·ness , noun

Word origin for Sadness

Old English sæd weary; related to Old Norse sathr, Gothic saths, Latin satur, satis enough

Synonyms for Sadness

anguish, grief, heartache, heartbreak, hopelessness, melancholy, misery, mourning, poignancy, sorrow, blahs, bleakness, bummer, cheerlessness, dejection, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, distress, dolefulness, dolor, downer, dysphoria, forlornness, funk, gloominess, letdown, listlessness, moodiness, mopes, mournfulness, sorrowfulness, tribulation, woe, blue devils, blue funk, broken heart, dismals, downcastness, grieving, heavy heart, the blues, the dumps