Definition of sadness

"sadness" in the noun sense

1. sadness, unhappiness

emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being

2. sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness

the state of being sad

"she tired of his perpetual sadness"

3. gloominess, lugubriousness, sadness

the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

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Quotations for sadness

We look before and after,
And sigh for what is not.
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those
that tell of saddest thought [ Shelley ]

Sickness it better than sadness. [ Proverb ]

There is a sadness in sweet sound
That quickens tears. [ T. B. Aldrich ]

A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain. [ Longfellow ]

A plague of sighing and grief!
It blows a man up like a bladder. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is impious in a good man to be sad. [ Young ]

Sadness and gladness succeed each other. [ Proverb ]

Too much sadness hath congealed your blood. [ William Shakespeare ]

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys. [ Thoreau ]

The ground of all great thoughts is sadness. [ Bailey ]

Of all tales, it is the saddest - and more sad,
Because it makes us smile. [ Byron ]

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. [ George Eliot ]

What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it. [ Mackenzie ]

A languid heart is tender; sadness makes love ferment. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Alas that we must dwell, my heart and I, so far asunder! [ Christina G. Rossetti ]

Good-humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison. [ Stanislaus ]

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts. [ Shelley ]

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. [ Fuller ]

There is a chord in every human heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright. [ Ouida ]

They praise my rustling show, and never see my heart is breaking for a little love. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]

Take my word for it, the saddest thing under the sky is a soul incapable of sadness. [ Mme. de Gasparin ]

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. [ Dickens ]

A man cannot be cheerful and goodnatured unless he is also honest; which is not to be said of sadness. [ Steele ]

Dim sadness did not spare that time celestial visages; yet, mixed with pity, violated not their bliss. [ Milton ]

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? [ Anna Letitia Barbauld ]

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper. [ Chapin ]

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought Beauty too rich to go forth upon the earth without a meet alloy. [ George MacDonald ]

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness. [ Hamerton ]

Nature always wears the colours of the spirit. To a man labouring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Be sad, good brothers, for, by my faith, it very well becomes you: sorrow so royally in you appears, that I will deeply put the fashion on. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might. [ Tuckerman ]

Child of earth and earthly sorrows - child of God and immortal hopes - arise from thy sadness, gird up the loins of thy mind, and with unfaltering energy press toward thy rest and reward on high. [ E. L. Magoon ]

Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it. [ Madame de Sevigne ]

Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend, - this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts. [ Hawthorne ]

It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness. [ Lady Morgan ]

Poetry can make even the thought of death beautiful, and the sadness of bereavement not without a certain pleasure. Great poets have elicited from the sternest suffering a principle of enjoyment. Sublime faith and earnest love can conjure spirits the most lovely from the darkest abyss. [ Tuckerman ]

Surely you will not calculate any essential difference from mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over brackish depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace. You know that the bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and how many blithe hearts dance under coarse wool! [ Chapin ]

sadness in Scrabble®

The word sadness is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters sadness:

SADNESS
(82 = 32 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word sadness

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In sadness

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sadness in Words With Friends™

The word sadness is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters sadness:

SADNESS
(80 = 45 + 35)
SADNESS
(80 = 45 + 35)
SADNESS
(80 = 45 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

sadness

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word sadness

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In sadness

SADNESS
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Words within the letters of sadness

2 letter words in sadness (4 words)

3 letter words in sadness (9 words)

4 letter words in sadness (9 words)

5 letter words in sadness (6 words)

6 letter words in sadness (2 words)

7 letter words in sadness (1 word)

Words containing the sequence sadness

Words that start with sadness (2 words)

Words with sadness in them (1 word)

Words that end with sadness (2 words)

Word Growth involving sadness

Shorter words in sadness

ess

ad sad

Longer words containing sadness

oversadness

sadnesses