sadness

Other forms of sadness

plural

sadnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sadness

What does sadness mean?

sadness means "emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sadness?

sadness has 2 syllables: sad-ness. The stress falls on "sad". In IPA it is /ˈsædnəs/.

What is another word for sadness?

Close synonyms include unhappiness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, gloominess, lugubriousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of sadness?

The recorded antonyms are happiness.

Is sadness a common word?

sadness is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.