Thesaurus:sad
English
Adjective
Sense: feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful
Synonyms
- atrabiliary
- atrabilious
- blitheless
- blue [⇒ thesaurus]
- bummed out
- chapfallen
- cheerless [⇒ thesaurus]
- chopfallen
- crestfallen
- cut up (UK, Australia)
- damp (figuratively)
- dejected
- depressed
- despondent
- disgruntled
- disconsolate
- disheartened
- dismal
- doleful
- dolesome
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- downsome
- dull
- elegiac
- elegious
- forlorn
- gloomy
- glum
- grief-stricken
- grieving
- heavy-hearted (idiomatic)
- heartsore
- heartsick
- inconsolable
- infelicitous
- jawfallen
- joyless
- lachrymose
- lamentful (rare)
- low
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- lumpish (obsolete)
- melancholic
- melancholy
- miserable
- moody
- mopey
- morose
- mournful
- passionate (obsolete)
- plaintive
- querulous
- sad
- saddened
- saturnine
- shattered
- solemn
- sombre
- sorrowful
- sorrow-ridden
- sorrowsome
- spiritless
- sullen [⇒ thesaurus]
- threnetic
- threnetical
- triste [⇒ thesaurus] (rare)
- tristful (archaic)
- uncheerful
- uncheery
- unconsolable
- unhappy [⇒ thesaurus]
- unlively
- wistful
- woe [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Various
Translations
- Portuguese: Thesaurus:triste
See also
- Thesaurus:cheerless (of a situation)
- Thesaurus:lamentable (causing sadness)
Further reading
- “837. dejection” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “sad” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.