sad

denisse A.
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  1. Weltschmerz
    sadness on thinking about the evils of the world
  2. jeremiad
    a long and mournful complaint
  3. doleful
    filled with or evoking sadness
  4. maudlin
    very sentimental or emotional
  5. contrite
    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow
  6. lachrymose
    showing sorrow
  7. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
  8. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  9. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  10. bereft
    lacking or deprived of something
  11. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
  12. innocuous
    not injurious to physical or mental health
  13. elegiac
    resembling or characteristic of a lament for the dead
  14. disparaging
    expressive of low opinion
Created on Thu May 17 16:18:59 EDT 2007

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