grief and sadness
Grief
· gloomy · glum · grief · grief-stricken · grim · grieving · grievous
Anyone who is sad, or carries grief.
unhappy upset tearful grief
To feel grief is to be unhappy or sad. If you feel grief, you are capable of feelings, and it means that you are a normal, healthy human being.
Tragic: very sad; especially involving grief.
grief and sadness
Yes, My Girl is known to be a sad film. The film also subconsciously teaches children how to deal with grief.
You may be so grief struck that you do not eat for awhile. There for you get skinny. you may be so upset you yell at people.
A sad poem is called an ELEGY, and its adjectival form is 'elegiac'.
To console someone is to comfort them because of grief or sorrow. Therefore, consoling someone helps to lessen the grief of a particularly sad occasion.
The word could be grief or more specifically bereavement.