かなしい
sad
A heart with everything set against it, sat in the dark through the last twenty minutes of the film. Can かな she しい hold it together: かなしい.
寂しい さびしい is the lonely sort of sad, a room with nobody in it. 悲しい is grief, and it has a cause.
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