Sadness
['sædnəs]
Definition
(noun.) emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being.
(noun.) the state of being sad; 'she tired of his perpetual sadness'.
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Definition
(n.) Heaviness; firmness.
(n.) Seriousness; gravity; discretion.
(n.) Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Sorrow, despondency, MELANCHOLY, depression, dejection, sorrowfulness, depression of spirits.[2]. Gloominess, mournfulness, dolefulness.
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Examples
- The days now passed as peaceably as before, with the sole alteration, that joy had taken place of sadness in the countenances of my friends. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Still she was glad to have seen them all again, though a tinge of sadness mixed itself with her pleasure. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- We feel joy and peace when he comes into a room; we feel sadness and trouble when he leaves it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But now, though her voice was still sweet, I found in its melody an indescribable sadness. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Double sorrow--sadness, bred in Cimmerian caves, robed my soul in a mourning garb. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- After a pause, they both heartily congratulated me; but there was a certain touch of sadness in their congratulations that I rather resented. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- For tears, for sadness, or for mirth, You rule my destiny on earth. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He knew that sadness and to see it here worried him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I noticed that sadness. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Good-by, she said, with affectionate sadness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You were dwelling upon the sadness and horror and useless waste of life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You are my master; it shall be as you say, she replied simply, but there was a note of sadness in her voice. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Beth watched it till it vanished, and her eyes were full of sadness. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- All my life I have had this sadness at intervals, the woman said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Her eyes were hazel, and expressive of mildness, now through recent affliction allied to sadness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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