saddened

• afflicted
• aggrieved
• agitated
• agonized
• ailed
• all torn up
• anguished
• antsy
• anxious
• bad
• basket case
• black
• bleak
• blue
• bothered
• brokenhearted
• bugged
• bummed out
• bundle of nerves
• burdened
• cast down
• chapfallen
• cheerless
• comfortless
• concerned
• crestfallen
• cut up
• dark
• darkening
• dashed
• daunted
• dejected
• demoralized
• depressed
• depressing
• desolate
• despairing
• despondent
• destroyed
• disappointed
• discombobulated
• discomforted
• discomposed
• disconsolate
• discouraged
• disheartened
• dismal
• dismayed
• dispirited
• disquieted
• distracted
• distrait
• distraught
• distressed
• disturbed
• doleful
• dolorous
• down
• down and out
• down in the dumps
• down in the mouth
• downbeat
• downcast
• downhearted
• dragged
• drear
• dreary
• droopy
• elegiac
• elegiacal
• exercised
• fidgety
• forlorn
• funereal
• gloomy
• glum
• got down
• gray
• grey
• grieved
• grieving
• grim
• hangdog
• harassed
• harmed
• heartbroken
• heartsick
• heartsore
• heavy-hearted
• heavyhearted
• hopeless
• hurt
• hurting
• hyper
• in a blue funk
• in a stew
• in a tizzy
• in blue funk
• in pain
• in the dumps
• inconsolable
• injured
• jittery
• joyless
• jumpy
• lachrymose
• let-down
• long-faced
• low
• low-spirited
• lugubrious
• melancholic
• melancholy
• miffed
• mirthless
• miserable
• moody
• moony
• morbid
• morose
• mournful
• murky
• not happy
• oppressed
• pained
• peeved
• pensive
• persecuted
• perturbed
• pitiful
• plaintive
• regretful
• ripped
• rueful
• sad
• saddening
• saturnine
• shaky
• shook
• shook-up
• shot down
• somber
• sombre
• sorrowful
• sorry
• spooked
• strung-out
• suicidal
• sullen
• sunk
• tearful
• teary
• tormented
• torn-up
• tortured
• trite
• troubled
• unconsolable
• undid
• uneasy
• unglued
• unhappy
• unhinged
• unnerved
• unquiet
• unsettled
• up the wall
• upset
• uptight
• wailing
• weeping
• weighed down
• wet blanket
• wired
• wistful
• woebegone
• woeful
• worried
• wrecked
• wretched
• wronged

• above
• animated
• assured
• beaming
• blissful
• blithe
• blithesome
• boon
• boosted
• bouncing
• bright
• brightened
• buoyant
• buoyed
• calm
• carefree
• careless
• cavalier
• cheerful
• cheery
• chipper
• collected
• comforted
• consoled
• content
• cool
• decent
• delighted
• devil-may-care
• easygoing
• ecstatic
• elated
• elevated
• encouraged
• energetic
• enlivened
• enraptured
• entranced
• euphoric
• excited
• exhilarated
• exuberant
• exultant
• frisky
• gay
• glad
• gladdened
• gladsome
• gleeful
• gratified
• grinning
• happy
• happy-go-lucky
• heartened
• hopeful
• insouciant
• inspired
• invigorated
• jaunty
• jocose
• jocular
• jocund
• jolly
• jovial
• joyful
• joyous
• jubilant
• laughing
• lifted
• lightened
• lighthearted
• lightsome
• lively
• merry
• mirthful
• optimistic
• overjoyed
• peaceful
• peppy
• perky
• pleased
• rapturous
• reassured
• rejoiced
• rhapsodic
• rhapsodical
• rosy
• sanguine
• satisfied
• smiling
• solaced
• soothed
• spirited
• sprightful
• sprightly
• springy
• stimulated
• sunny
• thrilled
• unconcerned
• untroubled
• unworried
• upbeat
• uplifted
• vital
• vivacious
• zippy

• verb
  1. To make sad or unhappy.
  2. To become sad or unhappy.
  3. To darken a color during dyeing.
  4. To render heavy or cohesive.

• The unexpected news saddened everyone in the room.
• She was visibly saddened by the loss of her beloved pet.
• The somber tone of the letter truly saddened her heart.
• His departure saddened the entire team, leaving a void in their camaraderie.
• We were all saddened to hear about the tragic events unfolding in the news.

sad

saddening

bad

dashed

daunted

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