"feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti
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tinged with sadness
"a movie with a bittersweet ending"
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filled with or evoking sadness
"the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news"
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characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
"growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
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showing pensive sadness
"the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"
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very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction
"a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident"
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manifesting both tragic and comic aspects
"the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments"- B.R.Redman