Sadness Vocab

Ascetic

(adj) shunning pleasure; self denying ; (n) a person who shuns pleasure and lives simply

Chagrin

(n) embarrassment; mortification; disappointment

Compunction

(n) regret; remorse; qualm; misgiving

Contrite

(adj) showing deep regret and sorrow for wrongdoing; deeply pentinent;repentant

Contrition

(n) repentance

Dejected

(adj) sad; low in spirits; depressed

Disconsolate

(adj) cheerless; inconsolable

Disgruntled

(adj) in bad humor; displeased; discontented

Doleful

(adj) causing grief or sadness; mournful

Lament

(v) mourn; deplore

Maudlin

(adj) weakly sentimental and tearful

Nostalgia

(n) homesickness; a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for the past

Nostalgic

(adj) homesick, longing for or thinking fondly of the past

Pathetic

(adj) arousing pity; pitifully inferior or inadequate; absurd; laughable

Pathos

(n) quality in events or in art and literature that arouses our pity ; (adj) thoughtful in a sad way, melancholy; musingly or dreamily thoughful

Plight

(n) unfortunate state; predicament

Poignant

(adj) Painfully affecting feelings; piercing; deeply touching

Sullen

(adj) resentfully silent; glum; morose; gloomy

Throes

(n,pl) anguish; pangs; painful struggle

Tribulation

(n) suffering; distress resulting from oppression or persecution; a trying experience