Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

sad (how to use (used with nouns (about reality (truth (Now we have to…

- - - - look
        
        He looks sad because he lost his job.
      - feel
        
        He feels sad because he lost his job.
      - seem
        
        He seems sad because he lost his job.
      - sound
        
        That story sounds sad.
    - - He is sad because he lost his job.
      - That story is sad.
  - - - particularly
        
        When our dog dies,my daughrer was particularly sad.
      - especially
        
        When our dog dies,my daughter was especially sad.
      - immersenly
        
        When our dog dies, my daughter was immensely sad.
      - unbearably
        
        When our dog dies,my daughter was unbearably sad.
    - - a little
        
        The boy was a little sad because he didn't get ice cream for desert.
      - slightly
        
        The boy was slightly sad because he didn't get ice cream for desert.
  - - - ending
        
        The movie had a sad ending.
      - beginning
        
        The movie had a sad beginning.
      - story
        
        The movie had a sad story.
    - - event
        
        His grandmother's funeral was a sad event.
      - ceremony
        
        His grandmother's funeral was a sad ceremony
    - - song
        
        She enjoys sad songs.
      - melodies
        
        She enjoys sad melodies.
    - - truth
        
        Now we have to face the sad truth.
      - reality
        
        Now we have to face the sad reality.
      - news
        
        The sad news made me cry.
      - loss
        
        The sad loss made me cry.
      - occasion
        
        The sad occasion made me cry.
  - - - The student was sad about her bad grade on the exam.
    - - I feel sad for him.
- - - - Yesterday I was so sad and cried all day.Today I'm just feeling unsad.
  - - - I want to unsad you.
- - - - antonyms
        
        gladder
        
        more joyful
        
        more cheerful
        
        more pleasant
        
        happier
      - synonyms
        
        more joyless
        
        more despondent
        
        more sorrowful
        
        more heartsick
        
        more melancholy
- - - - antonyms
        
        gladdest
        
        most joyful
        
        most cheerful
        
        most pleasant
        
        happiest
      - synonyms
        
        most joyless
        
        most despondent
        
        most sorrowful
        
        most heartsick
- - - - antonyms
        
        gladly
        
        joyfully
        
        pleasantly
        
        happily
        
        cheerfully
      - synonyms
        
        joylessly
        
        despondently
        
        sorrowfully
- - - - antonyms
        
        gladness
        
        joy
        
        joyfulness
        
        pleasantness
        
        happiness
        
        cheerfulness
      - synonyms
        
        joylessness
        
        sorrowfulness
        
        heartsickness
        
        melancholy
        
        the bleakness of winter sometimes gives me cause for melancholy.
- - - - also as adj
        
        One of the most saddening experiences for anyone interested in shipbuilding and the men employed in the industry is to go to a launching.
      - Is is saddening,because it is a well maintained mill.
    - - to become sad
      - to make sad
    - - We were saddened to see how ill she looks.
      - We were all saddened by her death.
    - - antonyms
        
        gladden
        
        to make (someone)glad
        
        gladdened
        
        gladdening
        
        It would gladden me to hear you sing again.
        
        brighten
        
        to add more light to (something)
        
        He brightened (up) when he heard the good news.
        
        bright-en-ing
        
        bright-ened
        
        buoy
        
        to cause (someone)to feel happy or confident
        
        We felt buoyed (up)by the good news.
        
        buyed
        
        cheer(up)
        
        phrasal verb
        
        cheer sb on
        
        to shout loudly in order to encourage someone in a competition.
        
        The crowd cheered the runners on :check: as they started the last lap.
        
        cheer (sb) up
        
        cause (somebody)to feel happier or more cheerful
        
        Try and cheer up a bit; life isn't that bad.
        
        cheering up
        
        She tried to cheer up the disappointed child when he failed to win the spelling bee.
      - synonyms
        
        deject
        
        to make gloomy
        
        nothing dejects a TV pundit more than the reality check that nobody cares what he thinks
        
        depress
        
        to make (someone)feel sad; to make (someone)depressed
        
        I don't mean to depress you ,but there's no way we can win.
        
        oppress
        
        to make (someone)feel sad or worried for a long period of time.
        
        people who have traditionally been oppressed by society.
        
        get down
        
        to cause to be physically ,mentally ,emotionally exhausted
        
        It's really getting him down that there does not seem to be one woman who will date him.
        
        weight down
        
        oppress,depress
        
        all these tragedies occurring simutaneously are weighing me down.
- - - - vert sad
        
        despondent
        
        very sad and without hope
        
        example
        
        I had never seem them looking so despondent.
        
        despondent about his health
        
        heartsick
        
        I was heartsick to learn of their divorce.
        
        Learning of something = hearing of something
        
        There were absolutely heartsick over :question: the loss of their home.
        
        sorrowful
        
        a sorrowful goodbye
        
        sorrowful eyes
      - melancholy
        
        depression of mind or spirit
        
        a melancholy thought
        
        sang in a melancholy voice
        
        example
        
        She was in a melancholy mood.
        
        He became quiet and melancholy as the hours slowly passed.
      - joyless
        
        a joyless marriage
    - - glad
        
        We're glad you could come.
      - joyful
        
        We were joyful at the news.
      - cheerful
        
        She has a cheerful outlook on life.
        
        outlook=the way that a person thinks about things
      - pleasant
        
        Our evening together was pleasant but not very exciting.
      - happy
        
        She was a very happy child.