Thesaurus:sadness
English
Noun
Sense: The state or emotion of being sad
Synonyms
- blueness
- blues
- crestfallenness
- dejection
- depression
- despondency
- distress [⇒ thesaurus]
- dolefulness
- downheartedness
- drearihead (obsolete)
- forlornness
- grief
- heartsore (rare)
- ill-being
- infelicity
- melancholia
- melancholy
- misery
- mishappiness (obsolete)
- mourn (now literary)
- prosternation (obsolete)
- regret (obsolete)
- rue (archaic or dialectal)
- ruth (obsolete)
- sadness
- sorrow
- sorrowfulness
- tristfulness
- undelight
- unhappiness
- woe [⇒ thesaurus]
- woefare
- wretchedness
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Further reading
- “837. dejection” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “sadness” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.