Thesaurus / sadness
FEEDBACKother words for sadness
other words for sadness
- anguish
- grief
- heartache
- heartbreak
- hopelessness
- melancholy
- misery
- mourning
- poignancy
- sorrow
- blahs
- bleakness
- bummer
- cheerlessness
- dejection
- despondency
- disconsolateness
- dispiritedness
- distress
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downer
- dysphoria
- forlornness
- funk
- gloominess
- letdown
- listlessness
- moodiness
- mournfulness
- sorrowfulness
- tribulation
- woe
- blue devils
- blue funk
- broken heart
- dismals
- downcastness
- grieving
- heavy heart
- the blues
- the dumps
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When incidents occur in Washington that people make parallels to Miriam, it just creates a great sense of anxiety and hurt and sadness, knowing that she wasn’t given consideration.
MIRIAM CAREY WAS SHOT AT 26 TIMES BY LAW ENFORCEMENT NEAR THE CAPITOL IN 2013. HER SISTER CONTRASTS HER FATE TO THE TREATMENT OF THE JAN. 6 RIOTERS.DAVID MONTGOMERYJANUARY 19, 2021WASHINGTON POSTAfter that first short burst, other feelings can flow, starting with sadness to grieve the loss of safety, then fear and regret, or what we would do differently next time.
BOOST YOUR MOOD WITH EMOTIONAL BRAIN TRAININGBY LAUREL MELLIN/THE CONVERSATIONJANUARY 4, 2021POPULAR SCIENCEI hope that in 2021, we’ll have less sadness and anxiety in common.
THE YEAR IT WAS OK NOT TO BE OK AT WORKSARAH TODDDECEMBER 29, 2020QUARTZSo, some would argue that emotions like fear, and also emotions like sadness, get us to withdraw a little bit to that which we know is going to work.
WHY DO WE SEEK COMFORT IN THE FAMILIAR? (EP. 445)STEPHEN J. DUBNERDECEMBER 24, 2020FREAKONOMICSThe Kealohas’ unraveling has been met with sadness and anger.
A PROSECUTOR AND POLICE CHIEF WERE ADORED IN THEIR COMMUNITY. THEN THEIR SCHEME UNRAVELED.KIM BELLWAREDECEMBER 3, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThey overanalyze everything, hoping to think their way out of feeling bad, and fret about consequences of their sadness.
HOW TO KEEP YOUR SADNESS FROM TURNING INTO DEPRESSIONJELENA KECMANOVICNOVEMBER 29, 2020WASHINGTON POSTBe aware that nostalgia can trigger both happy memories and sadness As the holiday season goes on, maybe you’re considering more structured video-chat activities like carol singing.
THE ZOOM-FATIGUED PERSON’S GUIDE TO CONNECTING VIRTUALLY ON THANKSGIVINGTANYA BASUNOVEMBER 24, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWFurther research also needs to expand the current despair scale to include other potential indicators of despair, such as sadness, recklessness and declining immune function, Copeland adds.
‘DEATHS OF DESPAIR’ ARE RISING. IT’S TIME TO DEFINE DESPAIRBRUCE BOWERNOVEMBER 2, 2020SCIENCE NEWSAs an Ojibwe teenager who spent summers on a First Nations reservation in Canada, Frawley was told her feelings of sadness as a teenager were “depression.”
AMERICAN ANGER: TOO HOT TO HANDLE?NICK FOURIEZOSSEPTEMBER 27, 2020OZYAnd for fear of being ill spoken of weep bitterly for a day, and then comfort thyself in thy sadness.
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WORDS RELATED TO SADNESS
- abasement
- abjection
- abjectness
- blahs
- bleakness
- blue funk
- bummer
- cheerlessness
- dejection
- desolation
- desperation
- despondency
- disconsolation
- discouragement
- dispiritedness
- distress
- dole
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dreariness
- dullness
- dumps
- ennui
- gloom
- gloominess
- heaviness of heart
- heavyheartedness
- hopelessness
- lowness
- lugubriosity
- melancholia
- melancholy
- misery
- mortification
- qualm
- sadness
- sorrow
- the blues
- trouble
- unhappiness
- vapors
- woefulness
- worry
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.