sadness

The word “sadness” has 2 syllables: sad-ness

It's pronounced as /ˈsædnəs/


What is synonym and antonym for sadness?

In the thesaurus, “sadness” has 81 synonyms and 48 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for sadness along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for sadness

  • agony
  • anguish
  • blahs
  • bleakness
  • blue devils
  • blue funk
  • blues
  • boredom
  • broken heart
  • bummer
  • cheerlessness
  • dejection
  • depression
  • desolation
  • despair
  • desperation
  • despond
  • despondence
  • despondency
  • disconsolateness
  • discouragement
  • disheartenment
  • dismalness
  • dismals
  • dispiritedness
  • distress
  • doldrums
  • dolefulness
  • dolor
  • downcastness
  • downer
  • downheartedness
  • drear
  • dreariness
  • dumps
  • dysphoria
  • ennui
  • forlornness
  • funk
  • gloom
  • gloominess
  • glumness
  • grief
  • grieving
  • heartache
  • heartbreak
  • heartsickness
  • heavy heart
  • hopelessness
  • joylessness
  • letdown
  • listlessness
  • melancholia
  • melancholy
  • miserableness
  • misery
  • moodiness
  • mopes
  • morbidness
  • moroseness
  • morosity
  • mournfulness
  • mourning
  • oppression
  • pain
  • poignancy
  • regret
  • rue
  • self-despair
  • self-pity
  • somberness
  • sorrow
  • sorrowfulness
  • tedium
  • the blues
  • the dumps
  • tribulation
  • unhappiness
  • woe
  • woefulness
  • wretchedness

Antonyms for sadness

Meanings of sadness

  • noun
    1. The state or emotion of being sad.
    2. An event in one's life that causes sadness.

Example Sentences

  • The rainy weather seemed to intensify the pervasive sadness in the air.
  • As she read the farewell letter, a wave of overwhelming sadness washed over her.
  • The abandoned playground echoed with a haunting silence, mirroring the prevailing sadness.
  • In the quiet moments before dawn, a profound sense of sadness settled over the city.
  • His eyes betrayed the hidden sadness that lingered beneath his cheerful facade.

On this page you'll find 129 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to sadness, such as: advantage, agony, anguish, benefit, blahs, bleakness, bliss.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

abjection

  • abasement
  • abjectness
  • affliction
  • agony
  • anguish
  • aridity
  • avarice
  • bankruptcy
  • barrenness
  • baseness
  • beastliness
  • beggary
  • blahs
  • bleakness
  • blue funk
  • bummer
  • cheerlessness
  • churlishness
  • closeness
  • contemptibleness
  • corruption
  • corruptness
  • covetousness
  • dearth
  • debasement
  • debauchery
  • debt
  • decadence
  • decadency
  • deficiency
  • deficit
  • degeneracy
  • degenerateness
  • degeneration
  • degradation
  • dejection
  • demoralization
  • depletion
  • depravity
  • depression
  • desolation
  • despair
  • desperation
  • despondency
  • destitution
  • difficulty
  • discomfort
  • disconsolation
  • discontent
  • discouragement
  • dispiritedness
  • disrepute
  • dissipatedness
  • dissipation
  • dissoluteness
  • distress
  • dole
  • dolefulness
  • dolor
  • downheartedness
  • dreariness
  • dullness
  • dumps
  • emptiness
  • ennui
  • evil
  • exiguity
  • famine
  • filth
  • frugality
  • gangrene
  • gloom
  • gloominess
  • greed
  • grief
  • hardship
  • heaviness of heart
  • heavyheartedness
  • hopelessness
  • ill temper
  • immorality
  • impecuniosity
  • impecuniousness
  • impoverishment
  • inadequacy
  • indigence
  • infamy
  • iniquity
  • insolvency
  • insufficiency
  • knavishness
  • lack
  • libertinage
  • libertinism
  • lowness
  • lugubriosity
  • malice
  • malignity
  • meagerness
  • melancholia
  • melancholy
  • miserliness
  • misery
  • mortification
  • necessitousness
  • necessity
  • need
  • neediness
  • pain
  • parsimony
  • pass
  • paucity
  • pauperism
  • pennilessness
  • penuriousness
  • penury
  • perversion
  • pervertedness
  • pettiness
  • pinch
  • poorness
  • privation
  • qualm
  • rakishness
  • rapacity
  • reduction
  • rot
  • sadness
  • scarcity
  • shamelessness
  • shortage
  • sinfulness
  • smallmindedness
  • sordidness
  • sorrow
  • squalor
  • starvation
  • stinginess
  • straits
  • suffering
  • the blues
  • torment
  • trouble
  • turpitude
  • underdevelopment
  • unhappiness
  • unkindness
  • unscrupulousness
  • unworthiness
  • vacancy
  • vapors
  • villainy
  • want
  • wickedness
  • woe
  • woefulness
  • worry

ill-being

  • Gehenna
  • agony
  • anguish
  • blues
  • calamity
  • cheerlessness
  • dejection
  • depression
  • desolateness
  • desolation
  • despondency
  • disheartenment
  • dispiritedness
  • doldrums
  • downheartedness
  • gloom
  • gloominess
  • hell
  • joylessness
  • melancholy
  • misery
  • mournfulness
  • plaintiveness
  • purgatory
  • sadness
  • sorrow
  • sufferance
  • unhappiness
  • woe
  • woefulness
  • wretchedness

joylessness

  • agony
  • anguish
  • blandness
  • blue devils
  • blues
  • boredom
  • boringness
  • colorlessness
  • dejection
  • depression
  • desolation
  • despair
  • desperation
  • despond
  • despondence
  • despondency
  • disconsolateness
  • discouragement
  • disheartenment
  • dismalness
  • dispiritedness
  • distress
  • doldrums
  • dolefulness
  • dolor
  • downheartedness
  • drabness
  • drear
  • dreariness
  • dryness
  • dullness
  • dumps
  • ennui
  • flatness
  • flavorlessness
  • forlornness
  • gloom
  • gloominess
  • glumness
  • grief
  • heartache
  • heartsickness
  • hopelessness
  • insipidity
  • insipidness
  • jejuneness
  • lifelessness
  • melancholia
  • melancholy
  • miserableness
  • misery
  • moodiness
  • mopes
  • morbidness
  • moroseness
  • morosity
  • mournfulness
  • mourning
  • oppression
  • pain
  • regret
  • rue
  • sadness
  • self-despair
  • self-pity
  • somberness
  • sorrow
  • sorrowfulness
  • tedium
  • unhappiness
  • vapidity
  • vapidness
  • woe
  • woefulness
  • wretchedness

malaise

  • affection
  • affliction
  • agita
  • agitation
  • ail
  • ailment
  • alarm
  • alarum
  • angst
  • anguish
  • anxiety
  • anxiousness
  • apprehension
  • apprehensiveness
  • attack
  • blue devils
  • blues
  • bout
  • bug
  • care
  • cold feet
  • complaint
  • complication
  • compunction
  • concern
  • concernment
  • condition
  • consternation
  • debilitation
  • debility
  • decrepitude
  • depression
  • desolation
  • despair
  • desperateness
  • desperation
  • despond
  • despondence
  • despondency
  • discomfort
  • discomposure
  • disconsolateness
  • disease
  • disfunction
  • dismay
  • disorder
  • dispiritedness
  • disquiet
  • disquietude
  • distemper
  • distemperature
  • distraction
  • distress
  • disturbance
  • doldrums
  • dolefulness
  • doubt
  • downheartedness
  • dread
  • dreariness
  • dumps
  • dysfunction
  • edginess
  • enervation
  • fear
  • fearfulness
  • feebleness
  • fever
  • fit
  • foreboding
  • forlornness
  • frailness
  • frailty
  • franticness
  • gloom
  • gloominess
  • glumness
  • hand-wringing
  • heartsickness
  • hebetude
  • hypochondria
  • ill
  • illness
  • incertitude
  • indisposition
  • infirmity
  • infirmness
  • invalidism
  • invalidity
  • jitters
  • joylessness
  • jumpiness
  • lameness
  • languor
  • lassitude
  • lethargy
  • listlessness
  • malady
  • matter
  • melancholy
  • miserableness
  • misgiving
  • mopes
  • mournfulness
  • nervosity
  • nervousness
  • oppression
  • pain
  • panic
  • perturbation
  • pip
  • presentiment
  • qualm
  • sadness
  • scruple
  • sickishness
  • sickliness
  • sickness
  • solicitude
  • sorrowfulness
  • strain
  • stress
  • stupor
  • suspense
  • sweat
  • tension
  • torment
  • torpor
  • tremor
  • trouble
  • uncertainty
  • unease
  • uneasiness
  • unhappiness
  • unhealthiness
  • unsoundness
  • upset
  • vexation
  • weakliness
  • weakness
  • worry

pain

  • ache
  • advertence
  • advertency
  • afflict
  • affliction
  • aggravation
  • aggrieve
  • agonize
  • agony
  • ail
  • alertness
  • anguish
  • annoy
  • annoyance
  • annoyer
  • anxiety
  • asperity
  • attempt
  • attention
  • backache
  • bellyache
  • bite
  • bitterness
  • bleed
  • bore
  • bother
  • burn
  • care
  • carefulness
  • catch
  • chafe
  • charley horse
  • chasten
  • closeness
  • colic
  • complaint
  • concentration
  • conscientiousness
  • constrain
  • convulse
  • convulsion
  • cramp
  • crick
  • cross
  • crucible
  • cut to the quick
  • damage
  • danger
  • despondency
  • detriment
  • difficulty
  • dint
  • discomfort
  • disquiet
  • distress
  • drag
  • drudgery
  • dutifulness
  • earache
  • effort
  • elbow grease
  • emergency
  • endeavor
  • energy
  • essay
  • exactness
  • exasperate
  • excruciate
  • excruciation
  • exertion
  • expenditure
  • fester
  • fever
  • fling
  • focus
  • force
  • gadfly
  • gall
  • gnawer
  • go
  • grief
  • grieve
  • grind
  • gripe
  • harass
  • harasser
  • hardship
  • harm
  • harrier
  • harrow
  • hassle
  • headache
  • heartache
  • heartbreak
  • heckler
  • heed
  • heedfulness
  • hit where one lives
  • hurt
  • illness
  • inflame
  • inflammation
  • injure
  • injury
  • interrupter
  • interruptor
  • irk
  • irreproachability
  • irreproachableness
  • irritate
  • irritation
  • itch
  • jeopardy
  • joylessness
  • labor
  • laceration
  • malady
  • malaise
  • martyrdom
  • meticulosity
  • meticulousness
  • might
  • mindfulness
  • misery
  • molester
  • muscle
  • nag
  • nick
  • nudnick
  • nudnik
  • nuisance
  • observance
  • observation
  • pain in the neck
  • painstaking
  • pang
  • paroxysm
  • particularity
  • pass
  • persecutor
  • pest
  • pinch
  • plague
  • pound
  • power
  • precision
  • prick
  • puissance
  • punctiliousness
  • punish
  • rack
  • responsibility
  • rigor
  • rile
  • sadden
  • sadness
  • scrupulousness
  • shock
  • shoot
  • shot
  • sickness
  • slog
  • smart
  • smarting
  • sore
  • soreness
  • sorrow
  • spasm
  • stab
  • sting
  • stitch
  • stomachache
  • strain
  • stress
  • suffer
  • sufferance
  • suffering
  • sweat
  • swell
  • swelling
  • tease
  • teaser
  • tenderness
  • throb
  • throe
  • tingle
  • toil
  • toothache
  • torment
  • tormenter
  • tormentor
  • torture
  • torturer
  • travail
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trouble
  • try
  • twinge
  • unhappiness
  • upset
  • vex
  • vexation
  • vigilance
  • watchfulness
  • whack
  • while
  • woe
  • work
  • worry
  • wound
  • wretchedness

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