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

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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. Michelle Rodriguezwishes she:

   I did everything I could possibly do to hide from myself, i’ll tell you that my Ayahuasca trip made me sad that he left me here. It wasn’t a sadness that he’s gone, it was more like a jealousy that he’s there first.

2. Hussam Ayloush:

   There's absolutely nothing that could justify (this shooting), and we stand in mourning and sadness for what happened.

3. Rabbi Benzion Korf:

   This tragedy hits close to home, and many in our school community have been affected by it, no words can capture the heartbreak and sadness we feel.

4. Thresholds CEO Mark Ishaug:

   It's an example of goodness begetting more goodness, in this time of despair and this time of sadness and anxiety and frustration, we need more goodness. This is just one example of how we can take a really dark time and make it much brighter.

5. Debbie Ziegler:

   Moving added so many layers of stress and sadness that I can understand why people who are ill feel they would need to file a lawsuit.