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sad - experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti |
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glad feeling happy appreciation; "glad of the fire's warmth"
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bittersweet tinged with sadness; "a movie with a bittersweet ending"
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doleful,
mournful filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news"
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heavyhearted depressed
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melancholic,
melancholy characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
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pensive,
wistful showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"
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tragic,
tragical very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident"
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tragicomic,
tragicomical having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics; "her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure"--Joseph Conrad
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sad - of things that make you feel sad; "sad news"; "she doesn't like sad movies"; "it was a very sad story"; "When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me"- Christina Rossetti |
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sorrowful experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13
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