单词 | sadness |
释义 | sadness (once / 514 pages) n Someone who's blue feels sadness, like a little girl whose best friend has moved away. Use the noun sadness when you're talking about sorrow. Sadness may be the overwhelming mood at a funeral, for example, or an elderly man might describe his life's greatest sadness as letting his childhood sweetheart get away. An interesting thing about sadness is that its original meaning was "seriousness." It wasn't until the 1600s that it came to mean "full of sorrow." WORD FAMILYsadness: sadnesses+/sad: sadden, sadder, saddest, sadly, sadness/sadden: saddened, saddening, saddens USAGE EXAMPLES“Stress, anger and sadness break down the immune system. Sound is part of what I do daily to counterbalance that.” Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) Despite reeling from a collective gut punch, women who were opposed to President-elect Donald Trump channeled their sadness and rage into activism and organization. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) “Arrival” handles that grief differently, ultimately arguing that there is a humanity in sadness. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n the state of being sad she tired of his perpetual sadness Syn|Hypo|Hyper sorrow, sorrowfulness bereavement, mourning state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one poignance, poignancya state of deeply felt distress or sorrow unhappiness state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief 2n emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper unhappiness happiness emotions experienced when in a state of well-being dolefulness sadness caused by grief or affliction heavinesspersisting sadness melancholya feeling of thoughtful sadness miserya feeling of intense unhappiness desolation, forlornness, lonelinesssadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned tearfulness, weepinesssadness expressed by weeping sorrowan emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement regret, rue, ruefulness, sorrowsadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment cheerlessness, uncheerfulnessa feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness depressionsad feelings of gloom and inadequacy dejectedness, dispiritedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness, lownessa feeling of low spirits gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombrenessa feeling of melancholy apprehension heavyheartednessa feeling of dispirited melancholy brooding, pensivenesspersistent morbid meditation on a problem Weltschmerz, world-wearinesssadness on thinking about the evils of the world attrition, contriteness, contritionsorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation broken heartdevastating sorrow and despair brokenheartedness, grief, heartache, heartbreakintense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) mournfulness, ruthfulness, sorrowfulnessa state of gloomy sorrow compunction, remorse, self-reproacha feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) joylessnessa feeling of dismal cheerlessness demoralisation, demoralizationdepression resulting from an undermining of your morale helplessnessa feeling of being unable to manage self-pitya feeling of sorrow (often self-indulgent) over your own sufferings despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, heartsicknessfeeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless oppression, oppressivenessa feeling of being oppressed dysphoriaabnormal depression and discontent feeling the experiencing of affective and emotional states 3n the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness Syn|Hyper gloominess, lugubriousness uncheerfulness not conducive to cheer or good spirits |
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