Another word for sad
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Adjective
In low spirits
Idioms:See also:Full of or expressive of sorrow
See also:Tending to cause sadness or low spirits
See also:Causing sorrow or regret
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Another word for sad
Modifier
Afflicted with sorrow
Suggestive of sorrow
*Inferior
Synonym Study
- Doleful implies a mournful, often lugubrious, sadness the doleful look on a lost child's face
- Depressed suggests a mood of brooding despondency, as because of fatigue or a sense of futility the novel left him feeling depressed
- Dejected implies discouragement or a sinking of spirits, as because of frustration
- Melancholy suggests a more or less chronic mournfulness or gloominess, or, often, merely a wistful pensiveness melancholy thoughts about the future
- Sorrowful implies a sadness caused by some specific loss, disappointment, etc. her death left him sorrowful
- Sad is the simple, general term, ranging in implication from a mild, momentary unhappiness to a feeling of intense grief
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