sadness

Plural: sadnesses

Noun

• The emotional state of being unhappy or sorrowful.
• 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.

Examples

• A wave of sadness washed over him when his nine-letter word proved invalid.
• She has experienced many sadnesses in her forty years.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

happiness