Timeline for can one be "さびしい" without being "かなしい"?
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| Oct 30, 2014 at 4:29 | comment | added | user224579 | Certainly! I tried to exaggerate the examples so I'm not sure they are the best but I'm glad it helped. I didn't even think about your examples but that's definitely another type of sadness. | |
| Oct 30, 2014 at 4:22 | vote | accept | user312440 | ||
| Oct 30, 2014 at 4:21 | comment | added | user312440 | Your giving me synonyms, usage cases, and extended definitions is exactly what I was hoping for. That is how I like to study. thank you for your time and consideration. | |
| Oct 30, 2014 at 4:17 | comment | added | user312440 | I'm just investigating why my habit is to rarely say "かなしい" (even though "sadness" is a fundamental emotion). I'm comfortable with the meaning of "さびしい", so I try to use that as a reference point for understanding "かなしい". I don't know why, but my habit is to say, when I am sad, I randomly select "落ち込んでいる", "しょげている", or "がっがりしている". To express that someone else is "sad", I say "可哀相" because I think that sounds playful. Of course, I am just guessing that "可哀相" sounds playful. I am also almost purely guessing "かなしいそう" is not said that much in conversation. I don't remember hearing it. | |
| Oct 29, 2014 at 23:48 | history | answered | user224579 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |