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• sadness — sad ► ADJECTIVE (sadder, saddest) 1) feeling sorrow; unhappy. 2) causing or characterized by sorrow or regret. 3) informal pathetically inadequate or unfashionable. DERIVATIVES sadness noun. ORIGIN Old En …   English terms dictionary

• saddening — adj. causing sadness, causing unhappiness, causing despondency sad·den || sædn v. cause to be unhappy, cause to be despondent; become unhappy, become despondent …   English contemporary dictionary

• melancholy — [mel′ən käl΄ē] n. pl. melancholies [ME malencoli < OFr melancolie < LL melancholia < Gr < melas, black (see MELANO ) + cholē, bile, gall: see YELLOW] 1. Obs. a) black bile: in medieval times considered to be one of the four humors of… …   English World dictionary

• sore — [sôr] adj. sorer, sorest [ME sor < OE sar, akin to Ger sehr, very, lit., sore < IE base * sai , pain, sickness > L saevus, raging, terrible, OIr sāeth, illness] 1. a) giving physical pain; painful; tender [a sore throat] b) feeling… …   English World dictionary

• mel|an|chol|y — «MEHL uhn KOL ee», noun, plural chol|ies, adjective. –n. 1. low spirits; sadness; tendency to be sad: »The chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races... (Thomas Hardy). SYNONYM(S): depression, dejection, gloominess …   Useful english dictionary

• dreary — drearily, adv. dreariness, n. drearisome, adj. /drear ee/, adj., drearier, dreariest. 1. causing sadness or gloom. 2. dull; boring. 3. sorrowful; sad. [bef. 900; ME drery, OE dreorig gory, cruel, sad, equiv. to dreor gore + ig Y1; aki …   Universalium

• saddening — adjective Causing sadness …   Wiktionary

• sorrowful — sor|row|ful [ sɔroufl ] adjective LITERARY feeling, expressing, or causing sadness: sorrowful dark eyes ╾ sor|row|ful|ly adverb …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• joyless — joy·less || dʒɔɪlɪs adj. lacking joy, bleak, cheerless, sad; causing sadness, giving no joy …   English contemporary dictionary

• dreary — drear•y [[t]ˈdrɪər i[/t]] adj. drear•i•er, drear•i•est 1) causing sadness or gloom; dismal 2) dull; boring; wearisome 3) sorrowful; sad; melancholy • Etymology: bef. 900; ME drery, OE drēorig gory, cruel, sad drear′i•ly, adv. drear′i•ness, n.… …   From formal English to slang

• dreary — /ˈdrɪəri / (say drearree) adjective (drearier, dreariest) 1. causing sadness or gloom. 2. dull. 3. Obsolete sad; sorrowful. Also, Poetic, drear. {Middle English drery, Old English drēorig gory, cruel, sad} –drearily, adverb –dreariness, noun …