Thesaurus:sadness

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

Antonyms

• happiness    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• compassion    [⇒ thesaurus]
• hopelessness    [⇒ thesaurus]
• loneliness    [⇒ thesaurus]
• remorse    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• emotion    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “837. dejection” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “sadness” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.