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English noun: sadness | |||
| 1. | sadness (feeling) emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being | ||
| Synonyms | unhappiness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | feeling | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cheerlessness, dejectedness, depression, desolation, dispiritedness, dolefulness, downheartedness, forlornness, heaviness, loneliness, low-spiritedness, lowness, melancholy, misery, regret, rue, ruefulness, sorrow, sorrow, tearfulness, uncheerfulness, weepiness | ||
| Antonyms | happiness | ||
| 2. | sadness (state) the state of being sad | ||
| Samples | She tired of his perpetual sadness. | ||
| Synonyms | sorrow, sorrowfulness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | unhappiness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bereavement, mourning, poignance, poignancy | ||
| 3. | sadness (attribute) the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness | ||
| Synonyms | gloominess, lugubriousness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | uncheerfulness | ||
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