NEVER Sound 'Sad' Again! | Build Your Vocabulary and Boost Your Speaking Skills

Hi there, this is Harry and welcome back to  advanced English lessons with Harry. Just a  

quick apology, you might hear a little sound in  the background as a car alarm or a house alarm  

going off outside, so it might cause a little bit  of disturbance, but hopefully not too much. So as  

I said, this is the advanced English lessons  with Harry, where we try to help you get a  

better understanding of the English language to  improve your grammar, your conversational English,  

all the aspects of English that you really need  to make those strides forward. So what are we  

going to talk about today? Well, in today's  advanced English lessons, we're looking at  

other ways to say sad. Yeah, other ways to say  sad, I'm going to start off with a little joke,  

okay, so this might brighten you up, you're  feeling a little sad. A man walks into a bar,  

and he sees his friends sitting in the corner,  sitting over his pint of beer and looking really,  

really sad. And he goes up to him, and he says,  What's wrong with you? You look so sad today. And  

his friend says, Oh, I've just found out that my  wife has run away with my best friend. I really  

miss him. Okay, so let's talk about real sadness.  So I've got 11, this time, 11 ways in which you  

can say sad in a different way. So go down through  the list. And I'll give you an example of each of  

them down well, when you're feeling down, it's  just a general feeling that we have. Often,  

we can't put our finger on exactly what the  problem is. But we just wake up and it's one  

of those days, the rain is lashing against the  window. Nothing particular but you just feel a  

little down. So your friend might say what's up  with you? Ah, I'm not feeling so good today. I'm  

not sure what it is. I just feel a little down and  feel a little sad. To feel blue. When we use the  

word blue. A lot of times when we're talking about  sadness, blue Mondays, usually when we come after  

weekend or after a holiday. So when we feel blue,  we feel sad. There's lots of songs using the word  

feeling blue to feel sad. When you're feeling  blue. All you have to do is something something  

something. So there's the different songs that  use that expression. So if you're feeling blue,  

you're not happy in any way. You're feeling sad.  oh, I'm feeling blue. She'd been feeling blue for  

the whole weekend. I don't know what's up. I think  I'll take her out for a nice meal on Friday and  

just see can we get to the bottom of this feeling  blue miserable, where when somebody's miserable,  

they really don't feel so happy. You can be  miserable because you've got a cold, or I've  

had this flu for two weeks now I can't get rid of  it coughing sneezing, snotty nose headaches. It's  

really I really feel miserable and I don't know  what to do. I think I'll just go home and stay in  

bed for two days so miserable to feel miserable.  You can look miserable as well when you've  

got a real sad face. What are you looking so  miserable for? You've got everything has gone for  

you that you shouldn't need to look so miserable,  so miserable and sad, sad and miserable.  

Distraught, a little bit more formal, distraught.  And as I said, at the end in the introduction,  

just be careful with the pronunciation. See  how I've spelt it here on the screen and the  

pronunciation distraught. Distraught, okay, and  when you're distraught, you're really sad it could  

be because of a particular event. Perhaps the  cat has run away and you can't find it anywhere  

you've put up notices on trees notices and sharps.  You've gone to the local animal rescue centre but  

no sign of the cat and it just hasn't been seen  for three or four days. So you and the children  

are distraught meaning very very sad at the loss  of the cat and you hope that it will return. So to  

be distraught about or over something. Distraught  about the lost cat, distraught over the death of  

your favourite dog or your long lost friend.  Okay? Gutted gutted now is a little bit more  

informal. When somebody is gutted, they're really  disappointed but something they didn't get a job  

so they got it they really had their heart set  on getting that job they want to get out of this  

company they want to move on get more money,  and they really thought they had done a good  

presentation. They'd gone through the interview  well, but they got a no, sorry. You did well,  

but we have found somebody a little bit better.  So they are gutted. What's wrong with Tommy? He's  

got the last the Cup final for school. It was  his first year or to play in the school team.  

They've done really well to get to the final,  but they lost in the last few minutes. And yeah,  

I can't console them. Yeah, he's gutted. So  to be gutted, meaning really upset, really  

sad. Devastated, again that a bit more formal.  Devastated when something happens. Devastated  

at the news. Devastated to hear what had happened.  The whole country was devastated to hear the news  

that there were a boatload of refugees found  floating in the sea, but they unfortunately  

had died. So the country was devastated. So  everybody was feeling a little sad. Or indeed,  

the country could be feeling devastated when the  team gets knocked out of the World Cup for the  

country when they lost their competition with  a game are absolutely devastated. What happens  

by how come we got bitten by such a team so  devastated really sad, really unhappy about some  

bad news. Desolate. Now I use desolate in quite a  few ways. And usually desolate is about somewhere  

really lonely, and very unhappy place. Okay,  a desolate island where there's nobody living  

on it. Or a desolated village and everybody has  moved out. So it can often be used in relation to  

places and things but when we talk about people,  he was desolated by the loss of his long friend,  

he had a friendship going back 30-40 years and  that friend died suddenly and he's desolated by  

the death of his friend. So we use it in the way  to describe how they feel deep down. So desolated  

by. Inconsolable. Well, if we go back to the story  about young Tommy who lost the football match,  

he was inconsolable no matter what you said to  him. He was all know when must the match and what  

am I going to do and everybody's going to be upset  at school and so he was inconsolable meaning he  

was crying or when Jean and nothing you said you  brought him his favourite dinner you brought him  

his favourite soft drink is whatever it was now.  He was inconsolable. So the best thing to do is to  

leave him and he get over it eventually. So when  somebody is inconsolable, it means whatever you  

say or whatever you try to do, you cannot relieve  a take away that pain or that suffering they are  

inconsolable. So they are crying or whimpering and  just nothing can help inconsolable. A broken man  

or woman. Well, when somebody is broken, there's  not literally it means figuratively. So they're  

broken by what has happened, perhaps their broken  man or woman because their relationship of many,  

many years is over. Something happened, everybody  thought they were the really happy couple,  

you know, they've moved house once or twice  moved to different cities, they have kids,  

but just something happened and the relationship  has ended. So he is a broken man, he thought this  

was his life partner or she is a broken woman,  because perhaps she also thought that this was  

the partnership for the rest of her life. So a  broken man or a broken woman based usually around  

relationship issues. At the end of your tether.  Well, when you're at the end of your tether,  

it means that you just cannot take anymore, I've  had enough of this place. I fed up arguing with  

the people all the time and fed up with the amount  of pressure that the boss continues to put on us.  

You know, what do we do, I'm just at the end of  my tether. I think I'm just going to hand in my  

resignation, and go okay, so to be at the end of  your tether means to be at the end of your rope,  

you've had enough you cannot take any more.  Okay, and if you like this particular lesson,  

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helps. And then finally, as sick as a parrot. Now  this is really, really informal. It's one of those  

expressions British English people use to talk  about something when they're really sad. Perhaps  

the football team lost the Cup final, perhaps  this football team got relegated. Oh, he's as  

sick as a parrot. Yeah, I mean, he really really  isn't happy. So it's quite funny. And it doesn't  

really mean anything much except that somebody is  really sad or unhappy because of some event. So  

he didn't get the job. He didn't get the promotion  his team last year, he's a sick as a parrot. Yes,  

it was one of those expressions that are  normally attributed to and associated with games  

of football, particularly British English. You  know, you wouldn't hear it in American English.

Okay, so there are the 11 particular expressions  or alternative words that we can use to say sad  

let me go through them one more time with you  Down feeling down, blue feeling blue, miserable,  

distraught, just practice that pronunciation  distraught. Got it. It's real informal, gutted,  

devastated, desolate. And again the pronunciation  desolate, inconsolable, inconsolable, a broken man  

or woman. At the end of your tether, sometimes  they say at the end of your rope at the end of  

your tether. And then finally the funny one as  sick as a parrot. So these are advanced English  

words that you can use instead of saying 'sad.'  So try to practice them as always, and you know  

the drill by now try to practice them yourself.  Try to get to know how to use them, you won't  

remember them all but try to introduce them bit  by bit into your written English or your spoken  

English and if you need any further help you just  drop me a line www.englishlessonviaskype.com.  

I'd be very happy to explain it to you in a  little bit more detail. We always appreciate  

you watching listening. So as always, this is  Harry saying goodbye and join me again soon.