sadness

Meanings

Plural: sadnesses

Noun

• emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
• the state of being sad
  • "she tired of his perpetual sadness"
• the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
• The state or emotion of being sad.
• An event in one's life that causes sadness.

Synonyms

affliction, aggrievance, blueness, blues, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, forlornness, gloominess, grief, grievance, hardship, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, lugubriousness, melancholia, melancholy, misery, misfortune, mishappiness, mourn, prosternation, regret, rue, ruth, sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, vexation, woe, woefare, wretchedness, wrong

Antonyms

happiness