sadness
NounUS[sad-nuhs]/ˈsædnəs/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (3)
- emotions experienced when not in a state of well-beingSynonyms: unhappinessOpposite happinessType of feelingKinds sorrow, melancholy, forlornness, depression, misery, downheartedness, heaviness, cheerlessness, weepiness, dolefulness
- the state of being sad“she tired of his perpetual sadness”Synonyms: sorrowsorrowfulnessType of unhappinessKinds mourning, poignance
- the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulnessSynonyms: gloominesslugubriousnessType of uncheerfulness
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Translations
Noun sorrow, unhappiness
- Spanish
- tristeza
- French
- tristesse
- German
- Traurigkeit
- Italian
- tristezza
- Portuguese
- tristeza
- Turkish
- üzüntü
- Russian
- грусть grustʹ
- Arabic
- حُزْن ḥuzn
- Chinese
- 悲伤 bēishāng
- Japanese
- 悲しみ kanashimi
34 more languages
- Dutch
- verdriet
- Polish
- smutek
- Swedish
- sorgsenhet
- Greek
- λύπη lýpi
- Korean
- 슬픔 seulpeum
- Indonesian
- kesedihan
- Vietnamese
- nỗi buồn
- Hungarian
- szomorúság
- Portuguese (PT)
- tristeza
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 悲傷 bēishāng
- Albanian
- trishtim
- Breton
- tristidigezh
- Catalan
- tristesa
- Czech
- smutek
- Danish
- tristhed
- Esperanto
- malĝojo
- Estonian
- kurbus
- Finnish
- surullisuus
- Georgian
- სევდა sevda
- Hebrew
- עצב 'étsev
- Icelandic
- sorg
- Kurdish
- xemgînî
- Latvian
- skumjas
- Lithuanian
- liūdesys
- Malagasy
- alahelo
- Norwegian
- tristhet
- Romanian
- tristețe
- Scottish Gaelic
- bròn
- Serbo-Croatian
- tuga
- Slovak
- smútok
- Slovenian
- žalost
- Swahili
- huzuni
- Welsh
- tristwch
- Yiddish
- אומעט umet
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Sad′ness noun
1. Heaviness; firmness. obsolete
2. Seriousness; gravity; discretion. obsolete
Her sadness and her benignity.— Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection.
Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages.— John Milton
Synonyms: Sorrow; heaviness; dejection. See Grief.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54