bereaved, bitter, blue*, cheerless, dejected, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, down, downcast, down in dumps, down in mouth, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieved, heartbroken, heartsick, heavyhearted, hurting, in doldrums, in grief, in the dumps, languishing, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, melancholy, morbid, morose, mournful, out of sorts*, pensive, pessimistic, sick at heart, somber, sorrowful, sorry, troubled, weeping, wistful, woebegone
Anguish, blahs, bleakness, blue devils, blue funk, broken heart, bummer, cheerlessness, dejection, despondency, disconsolateness, dismals, dispiritedness, distress, dolefulness, dolor, downcastness, downer, dysphoria, forlornness, funk, gloominess, grief, grieving, heartache, heartbreak, heavy heart*, hopelessness, letdown, listlessness, melancholy, misery, moodiness, mopes, mournfulness, mourning meloncholy, poignancy, sorrow, sorrowfulness, the blues, the dumps, tribulation, and woe, for starters.
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Another word for devastating is sad
Another word for sad is "unhappy" or "sorrowful."
Another word for "sad" in Spanish is "triste." "Triste" is an adjective commonly used to describe feelings of sadness or sorrow in the Spanish language.
sad
A good word meaning sad is melancholy.
Tragedy
terrible.......... horrifying.......... bad...........
Forlorn
Mad could be used
mad sad
glum, depressed
pathetic* and sad works as a synonym.