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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to sadness:   (197 results)

Antonyms:
happiness

Often used in the same context:
sorrow, grief, anguish, despair, elation, regret, joy, heartache, emptiness, heartbreak, melancholy, disappointment, bitterness, bewilderment, emotion, poignancy, despondency, wistfulness, dejection, hopelessness, bittersweet, thankfulness, helplessness, feelings, desolation, mourning, grieve, gratitude, perplexity, loneliness, dread, hopefulness, survivor guilt, longing, joyousness, anxiety, tragedy, trepidation, gladness, gratefulness, aloneness, frustration, exhilaration, solemnity, dismay, tears, admiration, shame, disgust, disillusionment, bafflement, astonishment, angst, disquietude, jubilance, agony, unhappiness, jubilation, indignation, pathos, puzzlement, disbelief, powerlessness, revulsion, weariness, excitement, pangs, cynicism, pleasure, somberness, foreboding, lamentation, incredulousness, anger, contentment, amazement, finality, brokenness, wonderment, affection, despondence, positiveness, deadness, condolences, ambivalence, nostalgia, sympathy, empathy, shock, loathing, stupefaction, humility, incredulity, disheartenment, mournfulness, exasperation, senselessness, dispair, compassion, joviality, exultation, guilt, seriousness, remorse, thoughtfulness, consternation, pity, lest, ever, mayest, afraid, else, mingled, momentary, o, ours, banish, blessed, bloodstream, calamitous, cataclysmic, causeless, chastened, coming, day

More specific:
bereavement, cheerlessness, depression, desolation, dispiritedness, dolefulness, downheartedness, forlornness, loneliness, low-spiritedness, melancholy, misery, mourning, poignance, poignancy, regret, ruefulness, sorrow, tearfulness, uncheerfulness, weepiness

Appears in the definition of:
., abandoned, bittersweet, black bile, cheerlessness, cloud, commingle, cry, desolation, doleful, dolefully, dolefulness, dwindling, dwindling away, forlornness, gloominess, heavy, inappropriate, intonate, light, loneliness, lugubriousness, melancholia, melancholic, melancholy, mourn, mournful, pensive, regret, reproduce, rue, ruefulness, sadly, sorrow, sorrowfully, tearfulness, tinge, uncheerfulness, unhappy, vague, walk, weep, weepiness, weltschmerz, wistful, world-weariness

More general:
unhappiness

Synonyms:
sorrow, sorrowfulness, unhappiness

Also try:
— Adjectives for sadness: great, deep, profound, much, infinite, certain, terrible, more, intense, sweet, overwhelming, more...

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