SADNESS

WORDS EXPRESSING SADNESS

1) FEELING SAD OR UNHAPPY
SAD: not happy, especially when you are thinking about something unpleasant that happened to you or to someone else, or when a happy time is ending (adj. Not. Usu. Before a noun): Helen felt very sad as she said goodbye to him for the last time. - It always makes me sad when I thinK about those poor people who have nowhere to live. UNHAPPY: 1) not happy; sad: An unhappy face/childhood. 2) (about, at) not satisfied or comfortable in the mind; uneasy: We are unhappy about/at the way the press has treated this incident. 3) (fml) unsuitable: an unhappy remark/choice of colours. 4) unlucky: An unhappy coincidence. UNHAPPINESS: Noun HAPPILY: Adverb. Any situation one does not enjoy at all. DESPERATELY UNHAPPY: In the movie, She plays a woman who is desperately unhappy with her wasted life. - He shrugged his shoulders unhappily and told her to mind her own business. MISERABLE: Extremely unhappy, esp. Because you are lonely, hungry, cold, etc.: The cold and miserable survivors set among the wreckage, unable to believe what had happened. MISERABLY: (Adv) He shook his head miserably, the tears pouring down his cheeks. HOMESICK: Unhappy because you are away from home and wish you were at home with your family and friends: Katy was very homesick during her year in America. - We spent much of our time comforting homesick children at the beginning of Summer Camp. To be homesick for: They were too excited by the thought of adventure to be homesick for their mothers. Homesickness (N - U): Some of the young soldiers suffered from homesickness at first.

2) FEELING SAD FOR A LONG TIME BECAUSE YOU ARE UNHAPPY WITH YOUR LIFE
DEPRESSED: Feeling very unhappy for a long time, so that you have no physical energy and no hope for the future (adj. Not usu. Before noun): My sisters been feeling really depressed since she lost her job. - I need something to occupy my mind. I get depressed if I have nothing to do.

DEPRESSED ABOUT: (N - U) She quarrelled with her boyfriend and was depressed about it for weeks afterwards. LOW / DOWN: Informal words meaning unhappy and without much hope for the future, especially because something bad has happened to you (adj. Not before noun): Johns pretty low at the moment, his business is losing money. - He is been feeling down since he failed his driving test for the fifth time. Low-spirited

3) WORDS FOR DESCRIBING AN OCCASION OR A TIME IN SOMEONES LIFE WHEN THEY FEEL SAD OR UNHAPPY
SAD: Sad time / occasion / day / moment, etc . (=when you feel sad, esp. Because someone you love has died or because a happy time is ending), (adj. Only before noun): The day her mother died was one of the saddest days of her life. - The years after the word were a sad time for our family. We all missed father terribly. UNHAPPY: Unhappy childhood / marriage / life / Year / etc. (=When you are unhappy because you are in an unpleasant situation that you do not enjoy): My Childhood was particularly unhappy because my parents divorced when I was nine years old. MISERABLE: A time that is miserable is one when you are extremely unhappy because you are in a very unpleasant or uncomfortable situation: As a sailor he spent many miserable hours being seasick. - Factory workers during the 18 th century led miserable lives.

4) WORDS FOR DESCRIBING SOMEONE WHO LOOKS SAD OR UNHAPPY

DEJECTED: Someone who es dejected shows by the expression on their face and by their lack of energy that they are very unhappy, esp. When they are disappointed about something: He looked utterly dejected when she told him hed failed again. DOWNCAST: Sad and disappointed, in a way that is noticeable from the expression on your face and your behaviour: He seems very downcast at the moment. He misses Jenny terribly. WISTFUL: Someone who looks Wistful has a sad and thoughtful expression on their face, esp. Because they are thinking about the past and wishing things were different now: She looked at them with a wistful smile. - Simons face grew wistful as he recalled the happy days of his youth. WISTFULY: (adv) Writing the letter, she dreamed wistfully of her hometown. GLUM: Someone who is glum shows by the expression on their face that they are very unhappy and do not have much hope for the future: I had to go and cheer her up, She looked so glum. - The doctor looked glum. - Bad news, Im afraid - why the glum face? Things cant be that bad. GLUMLY: (adv) She sat staring glumly at the door, Ill never see him again.

5) EXTREMELY SAD, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE SOMEONE YOU LOVE HAS DIED OR LET YOU
BROKEN-HEARTED / HEARTBROKEN: Extremely sad because you have been deeply upset by something that has happened: When her parents separated she was heartbroken Broken-hearted fans camped outside the stars house when he announced the end of his career. INCONSOLABLE: So sad that it is impossible for anyone to comfort you, esp. Because you have been deeply upset by the death of someone you love (adj. Not usu. Before noun): After the death of her baby, she was inconsolable. Poor Doris was inconsolable. How could her husband walk out on her like that? DESOLATE: Extremely sad esp. Because you are alone and lonely: She walked slowly across the courtyard, a lonely and desolate figure. He was really desolate when his wife died. 6) TO FEEL SAD BECAUSE SOMEONE HAS DIED, AND TO SHOW THIS IN THE WAY YOU BEHAVE PUBLICLY, THE CLOTHES YOU WEAR, ETC. GRIEVE: To feel extremely sad because someone that you love has died (V I/T Not in passive) - GRIEVE FOR: Millet continued to grieve for his wife many years after her death. MOURN: To show how sad you are that someone you love has died (V I/T):All the neighbours and relations who had come to mourn stood around the coffin. - MOURN FOR: They mourned for their dead children, killed during the war. 7) TO FEEL UNHAPPY AND TO PITY YOURSELF, IN A WAY THAT OTHER PEOPLE FIND ANNOYING MOPE: To feel very unhappy and pity yourself so that you have no interest in anything and no energy to do anything (V I): Dont just lie there moping. Do something with your life! - MOPE AROUND / ABOUT: (= go around a place moping) Hes not even attempting to look for a job, he just mopes around the house all day. = HANG AROUND / ABOUT WALLOW IN: Wallow in self-pity / despair / misery / etc. (= keep thinking about how unhappy you are, because you seem to enjoy pitying yourself) (V-T Not in passive): She spent days wallowing in self-pity and defeat and I got angry. SELF-PITY: The feeling you have when you feel sorry for yourself because you think you are very unfortunate or that you have been treated unfairly (N-U): In moments of self-pity she would plan her own death. Full of self-pity, he considered how cruelly fate had treated him.

8) WORDS FOR DESCRIBING SOMEONE WHO OFTEN FEELS OR LOOKS VERY SAD GLOOMY: Someone who is gloomy feels and looks unhappy because thety think there is nothing to be happy (about) (adj.): The doctor was a tall, gloomy Scotsman, who had a depressing effect on his patients. When I saw their gloomy faces, I knew that something was wrong. GLOOMILY: (ADV) Things always go wrong for me, he said gloomily. MISERABLE: Someone who is miserable always seems unhappy and makes other people feel unhappy : What do you mean youre not coming to the Christmas party! Dont be so miserable. Shes a miserable person to have around the office, she never smiles or says hello to anyone. MISERY: (NOUN) An informal British word: if you call someone a misery, you mean that they are always complaining and they never enjoy anything (n, sg.): Stop grumbling, you old misery. Dont invite her to the party: shes such a misery. MOROSE: (ADJ) Someone who is morose behaves in an unhappy, bad tempered way, and does not speak much to other people. 9) WORDS FOR DESCRIBING SOMETHING SUCH AS A STORY, FILM, TUNE, OR PIECE OF NEWS THAT MAKES YOU FEEL SAD SAD: What a sad story A meeting was called to announce the sad news that the school would be closing down. SADLY: (ADV) The film ended very sadly. Everyone in the cinema was crying. DEPRESSING: Making you feel sad and unhappy about life, esp. so that you feel less hopeful about the future: I admire Kafka as a writer, but I find his novels terribly depressing. Its so depressing the way no one seems to care whats happening to this country. PLAINTIVE: (ADJ) A sound that is plaintive is a high sound that sounds like the voice of someone who is sad or crying for help: I could hear someone playing a plaintive tune on the guitar. The plaintive cry of a seagull. PLAINTIVELY: (ADV) The baby was crying plaintively. MOURNFUL: (ADJ) A sound or voice that is mournful sounds as if it comes from someone who is very sad: I could hear the slow, mournful music of the bagpipes. His voice sounded so mournful and so miserable that tears came into her eyes. MOURNFULLY: (ADV) They could hear the dogs howling mournfully across the hills. 10) WORDS FOR DESCRIBING A PLACE OR SITUATION IN WHICH IT IS DIFFICULT TO FEEL HAPPY OR HOPEFUL DISMAL: (ADJ) The prison cells were dark dismal places. It was dismal living in France for a year, with all my friends still in England. A grey November afternoon dismal and cold. DISMALLY: (ADV) The sound echoed dismally through the empty streets.

DEPRESSING: (ADJ) A place or situation that is depressing makes you feel that life is sad, unpleasant, and without purpose: The town was a depressing place with its dirty streets and grey concrete buildings. Theres nothing more depressing than spending Christmas alone. DEPRESSINGLY: (ADV) The work was depressingly monotonous. DREARY: (ADJ) A place, activity or time that is dreary is one in which you feel unhappy and bored: This room is so dreary. You really ought to brighten it up a little. One dreary winters day I suddenly decided to leave and go and live in Jamaica. BLEAK: (ADJ) A place or situation that is bleak is one in which theres nothing to make you feel cheerful, esp. because its cold and unattractive: The wild landscape was bleak and bare. The high-rise office towers stood bleak and isolated on the outskirts of London. CHEERLESS: (ADJ) A place or a kind of weather that is cheerless is cold and dull, so that it is impossible to feel happy or comfortable: They were damp cheerless rooms, with little furniture. The weather was grey and cheerless with very low clouds and the prospect of snow. 11) WAYS OF SAYING THAT SOMETHING MAKES YOU FEEL SAD OR UNHAPPY MAKE SOMEBODY SAD / UNHAPPY: (expression) If something is making you unhappy at work you should tell your boss about it. It always makes me sad when I see so many talented people out of work. SADDEN: (VERB) If a situation or event saddens someone, it makes them feel sad, esp. because they think that things like this should not happen (V-T) - SADDEN SOMEBODY: The sight of all the kids fighting saddened her. We are saddened by the fact that so many of our friends have deserted us. - IT SADDENS SBDY TO SEE / HEAR / THINK / ETC.: It saddens me to think that hospitals all over the country are so short of staff. TO UPSET: (VERB) To make somebody suddenly feel very unhappy, esp. so that they want to cry (V-T). - UPSET SOMEBODY: Please dont cry. I didnt mean to upset you. The idea of having to give up his job seemed to upset him more than we thought it would. - IT UPSET SBDY TO SEE / HEAR / THINK / ETC.: She is very emotional. It upsets her a great deal to hear about other peoples problems. DEPRESS: (VERB) To make someone feel extremely sad or unhappy, esp. so that they feel that life is without hope or purpose (V-T). - DEPRESS SOMEBODY: I dont read the newspapers because it depresses me too much. I decided to leave. The place was beginning to depress me. - IT DEPRESSES SBDY TO SEE / HEAR / THINK / ETC. : It depresses me to think that only five years ago I was earning twice as much as I do now. GET SOMEBODY DOWN: (V PH) An informal expression meaning to gradually make someone feel unhappy and tired over a period of time: I know you have problems, but dont

let them get you down. The soldiers said that it was the monotony of army life that got them down. BREAK SOMEBODYS HEART: (expression) To upset someone very much, esp. after a love affair ends up unhappily or their hopes for you are destroyed: Shes a beautiful girl, but shes cruel and one day shell break your heart. IT BREAKS SBDYS HEART: Itll break your mothers heart when she finds out youve been arrested. - IT BREAKS SBDYS HEART TO SEE / HEAR / THINK / ETC.: It breaks my heart to see the children starving. Heartbreaking Heartrending expression DRIVE SOMEBODY TO DESPAIR: (expression) to make someone feel very unhappy and without hope, esp. because they think that they have been badly treated: The whole atmosphere at the boarding school drove me to despair, I just couldnt understand why my parents made me stay there. Matthew, an orphan, was driven to despair by his uncles constant bullying. 12) A SAD FEELING SADNESS: (NOUN) After his mothers death, Charles felt a great sense of sadness and loss. The old mans eyes were full of pain and sadness as he watched them walk away. UNHAPPINESS: (NOUN) The feeling of being unhappy, esp. because you are in a difficult or unpleasant situation that you do not enjoy at all (N U): If you marry that awful man, you will have nothing but unhappiness. Theres no doubt that personal unhappiness contributes to ill health. Youve no idea what unhappiness you cause your parents when you say that you want to leave home. MISERY: (NOUN) Great unhappiness, caused esp. by living or working in very bad conditions (N-U): The freezing cold weather increased the misery of the retreating army. She didnt seem to be affected by the misery of having to work in such terrible conditions. SORROW: (NOUN) The feeling of being very sad, esp. because someone has died or because terrible things have happened to you (N-U): She was full of sorrow at the lost of her child. He came to express his sorrow and to offer his help in organizing the funeral. GRIEF: (NOUN) Great sadness that you feel when someone you love has died (N-U): The entire family was overwhelmed with grief at the death of their father. They say he has been shattered by grief and refuses to leave the side of her coffin. GLOOM: (NOUN) The feeling of being very unhappy because of something that has happened, esp. so that you feel that there is no hope for the future (N-U): When the news of the defeat was announced, an awful gloom descended over everyone. There was a note of gloom and pessimism in the air. DEPRESSION: (NOUN) Extreme unhappiness and worry, which causes loss of energy and interest in life, and sometimes becomes a mental illness (N-U). -

HEARTACHE: (NOUN) A feeling of great unhappiness and anxiety, often continuing over a long period and usu. Caused by personal or family problems (N-U): Being unpopular at school can cause real heartache to children of any age. If she had simply called them on the phone, her parents would have been spared the heartache theyve been going through. GRIEF-STRICKEN: Grieving greatly: His family were grief-stricken at his death.

13) WHAT YOU SAY TO TELL SOMEONE NOT TO BE SAD CHEER UP: (V PH) You say Cheer up! to someone who looks sad, when you want them to become more cheerful: Cheer up! Dont forget tomorrows Saturday and you wont have to work. Gosh, you do look gloomy. Have a drink with me and cheer up. Chin up

EXPRESSIONS AND IDIOMS RELATED TO SADNESS BE FED UP: An informal British expression meaning to be unhappy and dissatisfied because you do not like the situation that you are in and you wish it would change. - BE FED UP WITH: Im fed up with this job. Its so boring. Toms getting pretty fed up with married life. He never goes out anymore. - BE FED UP: It rained everyday of our holiday. We were thoroughly fed up. TO DO SOMETHING WITH A HEAVY HEART: (expression) an expression used esp. in stories: If you do something with a heavy heart, you feel very sad when you do it. I said a final farewell to my friends and set out homeward with a heavy heart. It was with a heavy heart that Philip sold his fathers watch. TO BE DOWN IN THE DUMPS: An informal expression meaning to feel unhappy and without much interest in life, but usu. Not in a very serious or permanent way: Moms kind of down in the dumps at the moment, why dont you buy her something to cheer her up? Whenever youre feeling down in the dumps, you should come over and have a chat. TO FEEL BLUE: (expression) An informal American expression meaning to feel sad or unhappy, often without any particular reason: Feeling blue? Dont know who to talk to? Phone Depression Hotline, 24 hours a day. GRIEVE SOMEBODYS DEATH / LOSS: People must be allowed to grieve the loss of a relative for as long as they need to. - GRIEVE: (VERB) It is no use grieving. It wont bring him back. BE IN MORNING: (Expression) to show sadness and respect for someone who has died, by the way you behave publicly, the clothes you wear, etc.: The family was in mourning and refused to see anyone. - BE IN MORNING FOR: The Queen appeared, dressed from head to toe in black in mourning for her husband.

BE OVERCOME WITH / BY SORROW / SADNESS: To prevent someone from being able to act or think in the usual way: There have been times when Ive been so overcome with grief and rage that Ive doubted my sanity. TO GIVE WAY TO SORROW, FEELINGS OF SELF-PITY, ETC.: To allow oneself to show a sad feeling such as sorrow, grief, depression, etc.: He gave way to tears TO BE IN ANGUISH OVER SOMETHING / SOMEBODY: She was in anguish over her missing child. AT A LOOSE END: (Feel) sad and depressed. FEEL DOWN: To feel sad. TAKE SOMETHING TO HEART: To feel the effect of something deeply: Come on! It was just a joke. Dont take everything to heart. KNOW WHERE THE SHOE PINCHES: To know about suffering or hardship through ones own experiences: I also have been young and poor my boy, so I know where the shoe pinches. BE MILES AWAY: Be day-dreaming; be thinking of something else instead of concentrating on the present situation, perhaps because of sadness or worriness: Ever since June has broken up with her boyfriend, she is miles away. TO BEAR ONES CROSS: To bear suffering, affliction or annoyance. The suffering is usu. The fault of someone else: Susan really bears the cross with her alcoholic husband. CRY ONES EYES OUT: Cry very much because of sadness: Little Susie cried her eyes out when her pet hamster died. TEARS ROLL / RUN DOWN SBDYS CHEEKS: If tears roll down someones cheeks they are crying, probably without making a sound: He stood silently, tears rolling down his cheeks, while the music played. She showed us the letter with tears running down her cheeks. Expressions Ones eyes are brimming with tears To have a lump in ons throat To be at a loss for words To weep like a child To sob like a child/ uncontrollably To be tinged with sadnerss EG:Our joy was tinged withsadness To express/to show /to hide ones sadness An air/ an aura of sadness A feeling / a sense of sadness