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| ache |
When your heart aches for someone, it means that you are sad because they have trouble or pain. [1/4 definitions] |
| a few |
If you have a few friends, you don't have a lot of friends, but you have a small number of friends. If you have a few friends, you are probably pretty happy. If you have FEW friends, though, you might be sad. There is a big difference between "a few" and just "few." "A few" gives a positive feeling, and "few" gives a negative feeling, even though both of them mean "a small number." |
| affect1 |
to cause to feel sad or sorry; move; touch. [1/2 definitions] |
| bitter |
When someone is bitter, it means that they feel angry, or they feel both angry and sad, sometimes for a long time. Sometimes a bitter person hates something or hates someone. [1/3 definitions] |
| blue |
sad; unhappy. [1/3 definitions] |
| blues |
(used with a singular or plural verb) a style of sad-sounding music with roots in African American folk music. Jazz and rock music developed from the blues. [1/2 definitions] |
| cherish |
If you cherish something, you care about it very much and you appreciate it. It has great value for you, and you would feel sad if you lost it. |
| comfort |
When you comfort someone, you try to make them feel better when they are sad or upset. [1/3 definitions] |
| console1 |
to give comfort in time of loss or suffering; make less sad. |
| country music |
a type of popular music, based on the traditional music of the rural South and the cowboy music of the West. Country music often express sad personal emotions. |
| cry |
When you cry, tears fall from your eyes because you are sad or hurt or feeling other very strong emotions. [1/4 definitions] |
| deep |
A deep emotion is a strong emotion. If someone has deep sadness, they are very, very sad. [1/5 definitions] |
| dejected |
in low spirits; sad. |
| depressed |
sad or very low in spirits. [2/3 definitions] |
| depression |
When someone feels sad or down for a fairly long time and for particular reasons, we sometimes say they are in a state of depression or going through a depression. [1/4 definitions] |
| despair |
Despair is a very sad feeling of having no hope at all. [1/2 definitions] |
| dismal |
full of gloom; sad. |
| down1 |
unhappy; sad; discouraged. [1/13 definitions] |
| downcast |
unhappy or sad. [1/2 definitions] |
| dreary |
gloomy, sad, or dull. |
| drug |
Another kind of drug is something that can affect a person's mind. They can make a person feel very excited, calm, happy, or sad even if they are not really feeling that way at all. Sometimes they can make people do things that they would not usually do. When a person takes these kinds of drugs, it affects both their mind and their body, and, in some cases, they begin to need the drugs all the time. Sometimes drugs can destroy a person's health and life. Some of these kinds of drugs can be given out by doctors in a very careful way to help their patients with certain kinds of problems, but sometimes people get them and sell them in an illegal way. [1/2 definitions] |
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