478 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ sˈadnəs], [ sˈadnəs], [ s_ˈa_d_n_ə_s]

Related words: sad feeling, sad thoughts, sad quotes

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Similar words for sadness:

• other relevant words (adjective)
• blues (noun)
• boredom (noun)
• dejection (noun)
• depression (noun)
• discouragement (noun)
• distress (noun)
• downheartedness (noun)
• dreariness (noun)
• emotion (noun)
• ennui (noun)
• feeling (noun)
• gloom (noun)
• grief (noun)
• heartache (noun)
• misery (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• penitence (noun)
• pessimism (noun)
• pity (noun)
• sorrow (noun)
• tear/tears (noun)
• unhappiness (noun)
• unhappiness, depression (noun)
• woe (noun)
• wretchedness (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "sadness" in context?

Paraphrases for sadness

Homophones for sadness

Hypernyms for sadness

Hyponyms for sadness

Synonyms for Sadness:

• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • mental condition.

• n.

  •
  • funk,
  • feelings,
  • mope,
  • happy.
  • blues (noun)
  • low spirit,
  • the mope,
  • gloominesses,
  • the dismal,
  • moodinesses.
  • boredom (noun)
  • ennui.
  • dejection (noun)
  • contemplativeness,
  • dispiritedness,
  • anxiety,
  • grimness,
  • disheartenment,
  • moroseness,
  • despair,
  • blues,
  • wistfulness,
  • glumness,
  • dolorousness,
  • woefulness,
  • despondency,
  • plaintiveness,
  • melancholy,
  • anguish,
  • sullenness.
  • depression (noun)
  • melancholia,
  • heavyheartedness,
  • lugubriosity,
  • lowness,
  • unhappiness,
  • abjection,
  • cheerlessness,
  • Disconsolation,
  • bleakness,
  • heaviness of heart,
  • Melancholias,
  • the blue,
  • the blues,
  • Abjectness,
  • blahs.
  • discouragement (noun)
  • dis appointment,
  • dis may,
  • dis-mays,
  • dis-appointment,
  • dis mays,
  • dis-appointments,
  • loss confidence,
  • dis appointments,
  • dis-may.
  • distress (noun)
  • dis-comfort,
  • dis tress,
  • head-ache,
  • dis tresses,
  • dis-comforts,
  • dis comfort,
  • dis quietudes,
  • dis-quietudes,
  • dis quietude,
  • worriments,
  • dis-tress,
  • unconsolabilities,
  • dis-tresses,
  • dis-quietude,
  • dis comforts.
  • downheartedness (noun)
  • lowspiritednesses,
  • forlornnesses,
  • low-spiritednesses,
  • low spiritednesses,
  • lowspiritedness,
  • low spiritedness.
  • dreariness (noun)
  • in-sipidity,
  • boringnesses,
  • in sipidities,
  • in sipidity,
  • in-sipidities,
  • colorlessnesses.
  • emotion (noun)
  • excitement,
  • mood,
  • sympathy,
  • emotion,
  • poignancy,
  • sentiment,
  • feeling,
  • temperment,
  • anger,
  • sensation,
  • passion,
  • fear,
  • hatred.
  • ennui (noun)
  • lack interest,
  • dis satisfaction,
  • spiritlessnesses,
  • dis-satisfaction,
  • dis-satisfactions,
  • dis satisfactions.
  • feeling (noun)
  • sadness.
  • gloom (noun)
  • fore boding,
  • mis-giving,
  • fore bodings,
  • fore-bodings,
  • pensivenesses,
  • mis giving,
  • saturninities,
  • fore-boding,
  • Catatonias,
  • heavy heartedness,
  • disconsolatenesses.
  • grief (noun)
  • repinings,
  • in felicity,
  • in-felicity,
  • dis quiet,
  • be-moaning,
  • re-pining,
  • dis quiets,
  • be-wailing,
  • be wailing,
  • dis-quiet,
  • bewailings,
  • in-felicities,
  • deplorings,
  • be moaning,
  • in felicities,
  • lamentings,
  • bemoanings,
  • re pining,
  • dis-quiets.
  • heartache (noun)
  • broken hearts,
  • hurtings.
  • misery (noun)
  • anvil choru.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • pity,
  • Morbidities,
  • discouragement,
  • misery,
  • big trouble,
  • downheartedness,
  • lamentation,
  • heavy heart,
  • Cryings,
  • ruth,
  • expectation of worst,
  • woe,
  • sorrow,
  • spiritlessness,
  • gloom,
  • satiety,
  • low spirits,
  • lachryma,
  • pensiveness,
  • Dyspepsias,
  • dolor,
  • distress,
  • loss of confidence,
  • gloomy outlook,
  • colorlessness,
  • anhedonia,
  • mournfulness,
  • catatonia,
  • lack of interest,
  • anvil chorus,
  • rue,
  • teardrop,
  • wailing,
  • gloominess,
  • dismals,
  • unconsolability,
  • dejection,
  • Infelicities,
  • dim view,
  • penitence,
  • forlornness,
  • saturninity,
  • sob act,
  • ho hum,
  • heaviness,
  • dreariness,
  • joylessness,
  • the mopes,
  • heartache,
  • head ache,
  • disconsolateness,
  • visitation,
  • weepings,
  • moodiness,
  • dyspepsia,
  • lifelessness,
  • tribulation,
  • broken heart,
  • boringness,
  • purgatory,
  • the dismals,
  • low-spiritedness,
  • dark side,
  • worriment,
  • desolation,
  • waterworks,
  • wretchedness,
  • grief,
  • morbidity,
  • depression,
  • pain,
  • headache,
  • pessimism,
  • ho hums,
  • teardrops,
  • infelicity.
  • penitence (noun)
  • self-punishment,
  • self-flagellation,
  • self-castigation,
  • remorsefulness.
  • pessimism (noun)
  • dis trust,
  • dis-trust,
  • dim views,
  • gloomy outlooks,
  • dis-trusts,
  • dis trusts,
  • dark sides,
  • expectation worst.
  • pity (noun)
  • Condolement.
  • sorrow (noun)
  • oppression.
  • tear/tears (noun)
  • dis charges,
  • whimperings,
  • dis charge,
  • dis-charges,
  • lachrymas,
  • dis-charge,
  • sob acts.
  • unhappiness (noun)
  • un-happiness,
  • anhedonias,
  • un-happinesses,
  • un happiness,
  • un happinesses,
  • joylessnesses.
  • unhappiness, depression (noun)
  • downer,
  • the dumps,
  • blue funk,
  • letdown,
  • grieving.
  • woe (noun)
  • mis adventures,
  • mis adventure,
  • mis-adventures,
  • mis-adventure.
  • wretchedness (noun)
  • dis contents,
  • dis content,
  • dis-contents,
  • dis-content.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • discontent,
  • doldrums,
  • wrench,
  • disappointment,
  • remorse,
  • slough,
  • dysphoria,
  • self-pity,
  • heavy-heartedness,
  • dolefulness,
  • heartbreak,
  • disillusionment,
  • dissatisfaction,
  • disenchantment,
  • death wish,
  • darkness.
  •
  • despondence,
  • hurt,
  • celebration,
  • upset,
  • loss,
  • dumps,
  • agony,
  • rejection.
  •
  • ache.
  •
  • void.
  •
  • smart.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • torture,
  • chagrin,
  • self-reproach,
  • meanness,
  • pensive,
  • depressive episode,
  • dishearten,
  • suicidal despair,
  • vileness,
  • dejectedness,
  • bleeding heart,
  • gloomy,
  • Downcastness,
  • gather,
  • forsooth,
  • Swartness,
  • distressful,
  • mopes,
  • ruthfulness,
  • soberness,
  • bathos,
  • grievous,
  • desperation,
  • infer,
  • trial,
  • Penitency,
  • painfulness,
  • mumps,
  • empathise,
  • in truth,
  • afflicted,
  • hopelessness,
  • compunction,
  • loneliness,
  • despondent,
  • bale,
  • guilt,
  • throe,
  • pang,
  • Desolateness,
  • repent,
  • sorrowfulness,
  • drear,
  • bitterness,
  • annoy,
  • unworthiness,
  • disconsolate,
  • deplore,
  • swarthiness,
  • realize,
  • woebegone,
  • aggrieve,
  • horrors,
  • gaudiness,
  • contrition,
  • bad luck,
  • downhearted,
  • megrims,
  • malady,
  • elegiac,
  • bewail,
  • bummer,
  • forlorn,
  • deplorably,
  • poorness,
  • weep,
  • grieve,
  • depress,
  • mourn,
  • sympathize,
  • despicableness,
  • angst,
  • torment,
  • regretfulness,
  • dreary,
  • truly,
  • worry,
  • discomfort,
  • aching heart,
  • Miserableness,
  • gaunt,
  • commiserate,
  • baseness,
  • listlessness,
  • dinge,
  • tragedy,
  • marry,
  • sorry,
  • prostration,
  • repentance,
  • penance,
  • worthlessness,
  • mournful,
  • concern,
  • meretriciousness,
  • heartsickness,
  • in fact,
  • sad,
  • realise,
  • il penseroso,
  • distressfulness,
  • ill humor,
  • yes,
  • read,
  • sorriness,
  • hypochondriasis,
  • understand,
  • crumminess,
  • sorrowful,
  • affliction,
  • unhappily,
  • pathos,
  • paltriness,
  • ruefulness,
  • shabbiness,
  • blank despondency,
  • disquiet,
  • dusky,
  • interpret,
  • hardship,
  • somberness,
  • adversity,
  • Depressive Disorders,
  • sadden,
  • belief,
  • blackishness,
  • down,
  • doleful,
  • Downs,
  • crushing,
  • indeed,
  • regrets,
  • duskiness,
  • Egad,
  • bereavement,
  • troth,
  • empathize,
  • I' faith,
  • self-condemnation,
  • rueful,
  • agony of mind,
  • suffering,
  • by jingo,
  • suds,
  • misfortune,
  • extremity,
  • trouble,
  • woefully,
  • lamentable,
  • grieve for,
  • complain,
  • second thoughts,
  • Beggarliness,
  • conscience,
  • Contemptibleness,
  • seriously,
  • care,
  • mourning,
  • sharpness,
  • dismal,
  • in all conscience,
  • Duskness,
  • sadly,
  • Swarth,
  • cheapness,
  • tear,
  • shoddiness,
  • in earnest,
  • grievance,
  • dolorous,
  • pitifulness,
  • woeful,
  • regret,
  • spleen,
  • bemoan,
  • sobriety,
  • blue devils,
  • unhappy,
  • Lachrymals,
  • assent,
  • pitiableness,
  • grievousness,
  • of a truth,
  • graveness,
  • vapors,
  • shame,
  • calamity,
  • why,
  • downcast,
  • Perdy,
  • contrite,
  • distressing,
  • Dismalness,
  • lugubriousness,
  • lament,
  • sympathise,
  • dolour,
  • blow,
  • fatal,
  • Comfortlessness,
  • disgruntlement,
  • pessimistic,
  • qualm.

How to use "Sadness" in context?

Paraphrases for Sadness:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    grief, sorrow.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    grief, sorrow.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    emotion.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    unhappiness.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    unhappy.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    condolence, doom, pity, shame, spite.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    Saddened.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    anguish, bitterness, consternation, disappointment, dismay, distress, heartache, misery, pain, regret, sympathy, tragedy.
  • Verb, past participle
    Saddened.
  • Verb, base form
    regret.

Homophones for Sadness:

• scudding, seething, St. Athanasius, stanza, sheet music, seediness, sheeting, St. Dominic, shooting, staunch, steadying, Seth Thomas, suddenness, stomachache, sweetening, stomach, stomachic, soothing, shadowing, sting, saddening, St. Denis, shadiness, setting, stinky, sootiness, stench, sightedness, sodomize, systemic, sitting, Steaminess, staining, St. Nick, succeeding, stunning, scathing, sedateness, stingy, siding, shouting, stomach ache, Stations, systemise, sighting, shadowiness, Stonehenge, shedding, sodding, stowing, stoning, stink, squatness, sea tang, skating, swathing, sodomise, set to music, squatting, squattiness, stonewash, station house, steaming, stannous, suiting, Sweetness, scouting, stoutness, stone age, St. Thomas, seating, sudanese, stung, sheathing, stenosis, satanic, sustenance, siddons, shading, shoddiness, systemize, satang, sauteing, stewing, six times, stanch, studying, sweating, steadiness, shutting, stance, stone-wash, staidness, stannic, stotinka.

Hypernym for Sadness:

• n.

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

Hyponym for Sadness:

• n.

  • feeling
    feeling.