So , how are you today ? Are you feeling sad and depressed and low about life ? Don't worry
it happens to the best of us ! Now how about
I give you some interesting words to describe the feeling of sadness??
Hi !I am Rima and welcome to today’s lesson …now , today’s
lesson is very , very valuable because it’s all bout describing the feeling of sadness.Now
, all of us go through this some time or the other … We’re feeling sad , feeling low
,not so good , depressed but its not always the same feeling now .. is it ?Well , there
are mood swings and there’s sadness and a little more sadness and then a little less
sadness ..very confusing to describe so I‘ve come up with some interesting words that can
help you describe the feeling of sadness.So , the first one on my list is morose .Umm,
I think this word has a sad feeling to it , doesn’t it ? I am feeling morose which
means you are so sad that your face is all contorted and sullen and sulky … so morose
actually means sullen or sulky which means you are feeling so bad and so negative that
you cant even keep a straight face ; you are just sulking around the house you are just
feeling so sullen …so whatever you are feeling inside is on your face.Imagine that ! what
an effective word that is !I am feeling morose or better still .. every morning when I wake
up I hate looking at my wife’s morose face ! Don't you ever say that to her face cos
you are going to be in trouble then.That’s morose to you and the next one I have is downcast
. Now this is really simple to understand ; it means down…cast which means someone
who’s feeling so sad and so low that they are gazing down . They don’t have the courage,
the strength to even keep their chin up …someone who is in despair .So some times when you
receive some bad news ; especially when you are anticipating positive news and you end
up receiving the negative version of it .. you feel downcast , you feel like the world has
ended ; you feel like you cant even look up anymore , you cant even face life anymore
..you just want to walk down the road looking down at your feet as if everything is rock-bottom.
So downcast could also mean … ..you know .. feeling very low . So imagine you have
just negative news in your life and you are feeling so low and you are in so much despair
that you cant bear to carry on … that’s when you are feeling downcast .So, when Sam
received bad news from home , he was very downcast .See a simple sentence becomes you
know so weighty and solid when you use the word downcast which means someone who is in
deep despair or some one who is very ,very low .Moving on I have the next one … now
this one is down in the dumps or it could be down in the doldrums . Now both the usages
actually mean the same it means someone who is very, very sad and depressed. Its actually
used when you feel that your life couldn’t go any lower , when you feel that your life
has hit rock-bottom ,that everything that had to go wrong has already gone wrong and
there's nothing more in your life that can go wrong .. that’s when you are down in
the dumps /doldrums .After Sally’s breakup she was down in the dumps or she was down
in the doldrums .Both the usages actually mean the same and they add a lot of weight
to the sentence , they actually justify her deep feeling of sadness and despair . So that
is down in the dumps for you !Moving on I have the next one on my list …now this one
appears really simple .. its blue ; like the color but its got a very, very deep meaning
of sadness . It means really really depressed. Now the word blue can be used to describe
how a day is feeling or how you’re feeling or it could also be used to describe when
you’re feeling not so good in terms of your health. I woke up feeling very, very blue
… it could mean that you woke feeling sad with a feeling of overwhelming sadness or
it could also mean that you woke up feeling not so healthy , you know sometimes when you
are expecting a fever you know you are anticipating a sickness because you are feeling like that
and its going to happen to your body you could also say you know what I am all blue and under
the weather and it could actually work so blue stands for depressed and not feeling
good at all. The second would be in terms of your health ; you could also use blue in
terms of the weather ; I woke up and the weather was all blue but the most common usage for
blue is you know on Mondays ; actually Mondays are called blue ; you know Mondays people
actually get the blues that means they get depressed because they have to face another
week of work after a fabulous weekend so Monday blues is a very very common usage for the
word blue meaning you are feeling not so good or depressed. Moving on ,we have melancholy
; melancholy means sad or depressed but for no particular reason.So imagine you are not
looking too good you are looking sad and depressed and someone asks you what happened and you
say nothing , just melancholy means that you are enveloped with this general feeling of
sadness ; there is no one particular reason for it and you are just generally feeling
all low and sad and depressed and low on energy so that’s when you use the word melancholy
which means sad or depressed but for no particular reason .now melancholy can also be used to
describe a feeling that’s enveloping a whole place or the weather so could say something
;like after the earthquake the entire village was enveloped in a feeling of melancholy or
the entire village was melancholy and that would work just fine so , melancholy is a
very heavy word but it just hits the mark right. Moving on there is despondent some
who is in deep despair very very disheartened. Having gone bankrupt ; Sam’s entire future
seems despondent as in there was absolutely no hope left what so ever , that is despondent
for you … now all of these words oh my god they are so , so sad. So the next time someone
asks you how you are feeling you could actually use one of these words to aptly describe how
you are feeling .I am going to go over these one more time ; there is morose which means
sullen or sulky so your inner bad feeling is actually out there on your face. Then there
is downcast where you are feeling so low that you cant even keep your chin up ; then of
course there is down in the dumps or down in the doldrums which means you are very very
sad and depressed and everything that has to go wrong has already gone wrong … and
then there is blue which means you are feeling depressed or not feeling good health wise
and then there is melancholy which means you are sad and depressed but for no reason or
probably not for one particular reason there could be many many reasons just a general
feeling of sadness and there is despondent which means deep despair and absolutely no
hope but don’t worry there is a lot of hope for you ; I have some more words which will
help you describe sadness ; stay with me .still feeling sad , feeling blue , down in the dumps
don’t worry I have some more words I can help you with to describe the feeling of sadness.
Now the next one that I have on the list is dejected which means disheartened or to lose
heart . now whenever you receive a piece of really bad news its natural to lose heart
to feel disheartened and that’s when you can use the word dejected.when I didn’t
get the job I was dejected which means I lost heart or I felt disheartened .. you know something
within me broke and made me feel very very sad n low . so that’s the usage of dejected
and the next one a word that has been over used and over abused sorry . Now this one
I am going to treat it differently today ; the normal usage for sorry would be to apologize
saying I am sorry , I hope I didn’t hurt you .. I am sorry I was late but in this context
It means sad … when I saw the sorry faces of the beggar kids sitting and shivering in
the cold I felt really bad for them which means faces which were full of sadness , faces
that had no hope . Now that is the context in which you can use the word sorry to describe
sadness.A sorry face is a sad face , a face that lacks hope , a face that lacks any kind
of positivity so make sure you remember this usage of sorry because it is slightly rare
but its definitely correct there is also another usage of sorry that means to empathize . So imagine if you know of somebody which has
just suffered a tragic loss so you could say something like I am sorry about your loss
… does that mean you are apologizing for that persons loss ? NO it means that you are
expressing empathy about that persons loss which means you are telling that person I
understand what you are going through and I am feeling sad about it and I want to share
your sadness. So that’s another usage of sorry .. so remember sorry is a loaded word
and it doesn’t always mean apology , it could mean to empathize or it could mean plain
simple sad .The next one is forlorn … sounds difficult ? no its ot .. it just means absolutely
sad and deadpan…. Sad or expressionless . You know sometimes when we go through a
lot in life , we experience deep deep sadness .. our face sort of loses all expression you
know we can kind of stop feeling a lot of things we become emotionless.So that’s what
forlorn actually means and if I had to use it in a sentence I could say something like
when Sally loss her mother suddenly day by day she grew into a forlorn girl which means
she suddenly actually stopped feeling a lot of things her face became emotionless and
she became really sad and expression less so that is the usage of forlorn and the last
one for today is Rock-bottom … sounds like the name of a bar that you would visit right
? well that’s not what oit means it means hitting the lowest point of life so imagine
that Murphys law has worked and how and everything that had to go wrong in life has gone wrong
and life cant get any worse then you know you have hit rock-bottom so you could say
something like when Sam got fired he started drinking heavily and hit rock-bottom which
means he messed up his life in such a large way that it couldn’t get any worse . Well
I really really hope that you don’t hit rock-bottom trying to memorize all these words
and I hope you master the art of describing sadness ; well those are my words dejected
means disheartened , sorry means sad or to empathize , forlorn means sad and expressionless
, rock bottom which means hitting the lowest point of your life !Well that was my lesson
for you today and I hope you enjoyed the words and if you have anything interesting to say
to me definitely not sad but something positive make sure you type in the comment box below;
this is me Rima saying bye and thank you !