sadness

字辨

sorrow: 为表对于不幸所感到的悲伤的最普通用语,常指长时间的深切的悲伤

grief: 指由某特定的不幸所引起的比较短暂而非常强烈的悲

She had the great grief of losing her son.

sadness: 指由某种原因或由不明之事所引起的深沉的悲伤之感

I cannot understand his sadness.

词路径

• entity
• abstraction
• abstract entity
• attribute
• state
• feeling
• sadness
• unhappiness

上位词

• feeling
• uncheerfulness
• unhappiness

下位词

• bereavement
• cheerlessness
• dejectedness
• depression
• desolation
• dispiritedness
• dolefulness
• downheartedness
• forlornness
• heaviness
• loneliness
• low-spiritedness
• lowness
• melancholy
• misery
• mourning
• poignance
• poignancy
• regret
• rue
• ruefulness
• sorrow
• tearfulness
• uncheerfulness
• weepiness