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sadless

sadless adjective: without sadness.

Adjective

sadless (not comparable)

  1. (poetic, rare) Without sadness.
    • Life’s sadless harmonies roll on,
      And pour one choral hymn:
      Oh, soul of strength, assume thy sceptre;
      Hear —lest thy faith grow dim.1842 October 8, New York Mirror; A Weekly Gazette of Literature and the Fine Arts 1842-10-08: Vol 20 Iss 41, page 323
    • How well remembered in after-life were those quiet walks, beneath the frowning mountain passes, when heart beat with heart in joyful unison; those twilight rows upon the Genevan lake, calm and still as love itself; the often upward turning of that beauteous face wreathed in smiles, or bathed in...1869, E. C. A, Count Teleki : a story of modern Jewish life and customs, page n144

Examples of sadless in a sentence

  • Like a dove with the olive branch the news has been welcomed at every house, only in my humble cottage there is sadless grief!1873, Dittmann, Frederick, Let us have peace .., page 45:
  • Some investigators consider sadless depression to be a core condition — a somatic common denominator recognizable throughout the world.1994, David B. Cohen, Out of the Blue, page 157:
  • So we should alert our patients about the existence of “sadless depression,” because if patients use depressive sadness as a standard rule, they fre¬ quently get help too late when they are depressed.2006, Colom, Francesc, Psychoeducation manual for bipolar disorder, page 86:

Origin of sadless

From sad + -less.

Questions about sadless

What does sadless mean?
Sadless means without sadness.
How do you use sadless in a sentence?
Like a dove with the olive branch the news has been welcomed at every house, only in my humble cottage there is sadless grief!
What part of speech is sadless?
Sadless is an adjective.

Words near sadless in the dictionary

  1. Sadler
  2. Sadler effect
  3. Sadlermiut
  4. sadleroside
  5. Sadlers
  6. sadless
  7. sadlier
  8. sadliest
  9. Sadlowski
  10. Sadlowskis
  11. sadly

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