sadness (noun)
1sadness — sad ► ADJECTIVE (sadder, saddest) 1) feeling sorrow; unhappy. 2) causing or characterized by sorrow or regret. 3) informal pathetically inadequate or unfashionable. DERIVATIVES sadness noun. ORIGIN Old En …
2sadness — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ deep, great, overwhelming, profound, real … OF SADNESS ▪ hint, tinge, touch …
3sadness — noun a) The state or emotion of being sad. She has experienced many sadnesses in her forty years. b) An event in ones life that causes sadness. Syn: forlornness, melancholy …
4sadness — noun our sadness cannot be measured Syn: unhappiness, sorrow, dejection, depression, misery, despondency, despair, desolation, wretchedness, gloom, gloominess, dolefulness, melancholy, mournfulness, woe, heartache, grief; informal the blues …
5sadness — noun 1. emotions experienced when not in a state of well being (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑unhappiness • Ant: ↑happiness • Derivationally related forms: ↑unhappy (for: ↑ …
6sadness — noun see sad …
7sadness — noun Syn: unhappiness, sorrow, dejection, depression, misery, despondency, wretchedness, gloom, gloominess, melancholy …
8sadness — sad|ness [ sædnəs ] noun singular or uncount * a feeling of being unhappy, especially because something bad has happened: Joan s childhood was filled with pain and sadness. There was a sadness about him that we never really understood. great/deep …
9sadness */ — UK [ˈsædnəs] / US noun [singular/uncountable] a feeling of being unhappy, especially because something bad has happened Joan s childhood was filled with pain and sadness. There was a sadness about him that we never really understood. great/deep… …
10sadness — [ˈsædnəs] noun [U] the feeling of being unhappy Joan s childhood was filled with pain and sadness.[/ex] It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Wilfred White.[/ex] …
