Learn the Top 10 Sad Words in English

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Oh! Hi, everybody! Welcome back to Top

Words. My name is Alisha, and today we're

going to be talking about 10 sad words.

These are words that you can use to

express a sad feeling. So let's go!

Sad, the first word is sad,

anytime you feel down, you feel

disappointed, just to general not good

feeling, you can say, I'm sad. If someone

asks you, how are you doing? I'm sad.

Disappointed.

The next word is disappointed, you can

use this with food, with people, with pets

if you like.

My parents like to use disappointed when

they wanted to express that I did not

live up to their expectations, they would

say, Alisha I'm really disappointed in

you, and I felt so bad because it meant

their expectation was here and my action

was here, so it's very effective.

But at the same time it's so

motivating. Lonely. The next word is

lonely, lonely. I don't want to talk about

this word, it's sad. Maybe you've been spending a

lot of time alone, or there's someone

that you really want to see, or you want

to see your family members, or maybe

you're working too much, I don't know,

whatever it is, maybe you just, you

feel like you want to talk to people, or

you want to see people, be around people,

but you can't, you can use the word

lonely to describe that feeling. I've

only been working for the last few

months, I haven't had a chance to spend

much time with my friends, I'm feeling

kind of lonely.

Nervous.

The next word is nervous. Nervous is used

for any tension, any anxiety, excited but

in a bad way about something. When I was

a child before my piano performances,

I would get so nervous, I would be so

nervous my hands would start to shake

and then I couldn't play the piece I've

been practicing for months.

That's why this is great because you're not here.

Forgive me! Don't be disappointed in me!

Upset.

Upset is a really really useful word, anytime

you feel sad, angry, depressed,

disappointed, unhappy, in general, you can

say I'm upset, or he or she is upset.

It's just a general unhappy word but it

doesn't mean unhappy,

it just means something is wrong, there's

a way a person usually behaves, but I'm

upset means something's not right. In a

sentence, I might say, I'm really upset

about my performance last year, I was too

nervous and my parents were disappointed

in me, I'm sad now.

Frightened.

Frightened just means you're afraid,

you're scared of something, like when you

go to a movie and it's really scary, you can

say I was frightened. Frightened is not a

word that I'd use in everyday conversation

though. I might read this word in a book, I

suppose, but I can't remember the last

time I said "I'm very frightened," like, I

was frightened, that's a frightening movie.

It feels a little bit formal, so you

might read this word more often than you

actually say this word frightened.

Discouraged. The next word is discouraged.

If you're trying to do something, like, at

your job or as a hobby or whatever, but

it's really really difficult, or you're

receiving a lot of criticism, or it's

just not going as you planned, you can

say "I'm feeling discouraged."

that sad or that upset feeling of

wanting to do something but not being

able to, or having a hard time doing that.

I'm feeling a little bit discouraged

about my recent work project, for example.

Gloomy. Gloomy, i guess you could use

gloomy to describe someone's mood, just

they seem a bit down, they seem a bit sad,

they're not maybe saying very much, they

don't want to participate in things, that

might be someone who's gloomy. We also

use gloomy for, like, an atmosphere in a

room, or in a place, in a building,

something that's a bit dark, maybe it's

really, like, cloudy, you can

use gloomy to describe the weather as

well. Just something dark, cloudy, maybe

foggy, kinda, just a sad feeling, really.

In a sentence, my friend seems kind of gloomy

today, she hasn't said very much and

I saw her crying in the bathroom.

Hurt. The next word is hurt. If someone

criticizes you or if someone says bad

things about you, or you feel sad, you

feel down, but basically it's someone

else is the cause of that, you can say, I

feel hurt, or I was hurt by your comments.

So it can be used as a verb or as an adjective.

So as a verb, I was hurt by your comment.

As an adjective, I feel hurt. Another

expression that's commonly used is you

hurt my feelings, in that case it's used

as a verb, you hurt my feelings. So hurt

typically, maybe when you think of

the word hurt it means to wound or to

injure something, in this case your

feelings are the thing being injured or

being hurt.

So, you hurt my feelings is a very very

common one. Miserable. The next

word is miserable, she says laughing.

Miserable means very very sad, so maybe

here we have sad, I don't even know what

the next one is would be after sad, sad

and gloomy, miserable, depressed, I don't

know, these are just all very unhappy

things going on in this word spectrum

I'm building here with my hands.

Something bad has happened in your life

or in someone else's life and you need

a word stronger than sad to describe

that, you can use miserable. So, like, I

lost my job and I haven't been able to

find a new one, I'm miserable. Or my

boyfriend or my girlfriend broke up with

me, I'm miserable. It's usually for

something a bit serious in your life,

miserable. And that's the end! Those are

10 sad words, somehow that didn't get

too depressing, I hope. Anyway, give them a

try the next time you need to more

accurately describe your feelings, or to

describe someone else's feelings, they're

pretty useful actually, I think. Thanks

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