Thesaurus:sad

Thesaurus

sad

English

Adjective

Sense: feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful

Synonyms

• atrabiliary
• atrabilious
• blitheless
• blue
• bummed out
• chapfallen
• cheerless    [⇒ thesaurus]
• chopfallen
• crestfallen
• cut up (UK, Australia)
• damp (figuratively)
• dejected
• depressed
• despondent
• disconsolate
• dismal
• doleful
• dolesome
• down
• down in the dumps
• down in the mouth
• downcast
• downhearted
• downsome
• elegiac
• elegious
• forlorn
• gloomy
• glum
• grief-stricken
• grieving
• heavyhearted
• inconsolable
• infelicitous
• jawfallen
• joyless
• lachrymose
• lamentful
• low
• low-spirited
• lugubrious
• lumpish (obsolete)
• melancholic
• melancholy
• miserable
• moody
• mopey
• morose
• mournful
• plaintive
• querulous
• sad
• saddened
• saturnine
• solemn
• somber
• sorrowful
• sorrow-ridden
• sorrowsome
• spiritless
• sullen    [⇒ thesaurus]
• threnetic
• triste    [⇒ thesaurus] (rare)
• tristful (obsolete)
• uncheerful
• uncheery
• unconsolable
• unhappy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• unlively
• wamble-cropped
• wistful
• woebegone
• woeful
• wretched

Antonyms

• blissed out
• blissful    [⇒ thesaurus]
• cock-a-hoop
• content
• delighted
• ecstatic
• elated
• excited
• exultant
• gay    [⇒ thesaurus]
• glad
• gleeful
• happy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• jovial
• joyful
• on cloud nine
• overjoyed
• over the moon
• pacific
• perky
• placated
• pleased
• satisfied
• thrilled
• tickled pink
• triumphant

Hyponyms

• heartbroken

Various

• haggard
• grim
• long-faced
• pallid    [⇒ thesaurus]
• pensive
•   —
• lackadaisical
• lethargic
• listless
• weary
•   —
• crysome
• maudlin (obsolete)
• moist (of eyes)
• plaintful
• sobful (archaic)
• tearful
• teary
• weepy

Translations

• Portuguese: Thesaurus:triste

See also

• Thesaurus:cheerless (of a situation)
• Thesaurus:lamentable (causing sadness)

Further reading

• “837. dejection” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “sad” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.