Thesaurus:sad
THESAURUS | sad |
English
Synonyms
- atrabiliary
- atrabilious
- blue
- bummed out
- chapfallen
- cheerless [WS]
- chopfallen
- crestfallen
- cut up (UK, Australia)
- dejected
- depressed
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- doleful
- dolesome
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- elegiac
- forlorn
- gloomy
- glum
- grief-stricken
- grieving
- heavyhearted
- inconsolable
- infelicitous
- jawfallen
- joyless
- lachrymose
- lamentful
- low
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- melancholic
- melancholy
- miserable
- moody
- mopey
- morose
- mournful
- plaintive
- querulous
- sad
- saddened
- saturnine
- solemn
- somber
- sorrowful
- sorrow-ridden
- sorrowsome
- spiritless
- sullen [WS]
- threnetic
- triste [WS] (rare)
- tristful (obsolete)
- uncheerful
- uncheery
- unconsolable
- unhappy [WS]
- unlively
- wamble-cropped
- wistful
- woebegone
- woeful
Antonyms
- blissed out
- blissful [WS]
- cock-a-hoop
- content
- delighted
- ecstatic
- elated
- excited
- exultant
- gay [WS]
- glad
- gleeful
- happy [WS]
- 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 [WS]
- 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.