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sad (sad)

adjective sad′·der, sad′·dest

  1. having, expressing, or showing low spirits or sorrow; unhappy; mournful; sorrowful
  2. causing or characterized by dejection, melancholy, or sorrow
  3. dark or dull in color; drab
  4. Informal very bad; deplorable
  5. Dialectal heavy or soggy a sad cake

Etymology: ME < OE sæd, sated, full, hence having feelings assoc. with satiety, akin to Ger satt, sated < IE base *sā-, satisfied, sated > L satis, enough, OIr sāith, satiety

sad Related Forms
sad′ly adverb sad′·ness noun
SAD Definition

SAD

seasonal affective disorder

sad Synonyms

sad

modif.

  1. Afflicted with sorrow

    unhappy, sorry, sorrowful, downcast, dismal, gloomy, glum, pensive, heavy-hearted, dispirited, dejected, depressed, desolate, troubled, melancholy, morose, grieved, pessimistic, melancholic, crushed, brokenhearted, heartbroken, heartsick, despondent, careworn, rueful, anguished, disheartened, lamenting, mourning, grieving, weeping, bitter, woebegone, doleful, spiritless, joyless, heavy, crestfallen, discouraged, moody, low-spirited, mesto (Italian), despairing, languishing, hopeless, worried, downhearted, cast down, in heavy spirits, morbid, oppressed, blighted, grief-stricken, foreboding, apprehensive, horrified, anxious, dolorous, triste (French), wretched, miserable, mournful, disconsolate, forlorn, saturnine, atrabilious, jaundiced, out of sorts, distressed, afflicted, bereaved, repining, harassed, dreary, bilious, lugubrious, woeful, in the doldrums*, down*, down in the dumps*, gone into mourning*, in bad humor*, out of humor*, cut up*, in the depths*, blue*, in grief*, making a long face*, bathed in tears*, feeling like hell*, down in the mouth*.

    Antonyms happy*, gay, cheerful.

  2. Suggestive of sorrow

    pitiable, unhappy, dejecting, saddening, disheartening, discouraging, dispiriting, joyless, dreary, dark, dismal, gloomy, poignant, moving, touching, mournful, lachrymose, disquieting, disturbing, dimming, somber, doleful, oppressive, funereal, discomposing, lugubrious, pathetic, tragic, pitiful, piteous, woeful, rueful, sorry, unfortunate, hapless, heart-rending, dire, distressing, depressing, grievous.

  3. *Inferior

    cheap, bad, second-class; see common 1, poor 2.

sad is the simple, general term, ranging in implication from a mild, momentary unhappiness to a feeling of intense grief; sorrowful implies a sadness caused by some specific loss, disappointment, etc. her death left him sorrowful; melancholy suggests a more or less chronic mournfulness or gloominess, or, often, merely a wistful pensiveness melancholy thoughts about the future; dejected implies discouragement or a sinking of spirits, as because of frustration; depressed suggests a mood of brooding despondency, as because of fatigue or a sense of futility the novel left him feeling depressed; doleful implies a mournful, often lugubrious, sadness the doleful look on a lost child's face

sad Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • desperately: North Eastern Divisional Officer Mike Brewer said: " This is a desperately sad situation with around 670 jobs disappearing from Carlisle.
  • rather: A rather sad excuse for a bus took us to the fridge factory.
  • very: He wandered around with a very sad frown on his face.
  • kinda: Such a shame, am kinda sad to be going home tomorrow.
  • incredibly: It is incredibly sad that she probably had nothing to measure that pain against.

Infinitive complement

  • hear: Adam Stocks: I am very sad to hear of Gerry's death.
  • say: Sad to say I saw at least 2 names in the Watford Observer of people no longer with us.
  • see: We're a little bit sad to see you go.. .
  • announce: We are sad to announce the sudden death of David Wheeler on Wed 7th June.
  • think: I was really sad to think of him locked up in a foreign country over Christmas.
  • leave: He was clearly deeply sad to leave Norwich, a club that he describes in glowing terms.

Modifies a noun

  • demise: This came after the sad demise of my Cambrian kit Mustang at the 2001 RAFMAA Champs.
  • farewell: The only real downside to these regular monthly visits was the sad farewells at the end of the day.
  • tale: Now let me tell you a sad little tale about a Cornish fisherman.
  • loss: Sad loss to the world in the early eighties.
  • reflection: This is a sad reflection on our legal system.
  • fact: The sad fact is that many identity thieves never have to break through a firewall.

Used with adjective complement

  • feel: I feel sad for the patients who miss out.
  • seem: His mother and mine, with others, were crying, and all seemed very sad.
  • look: It looks all looks very sad, very tired, unbelievably predictable.
sad Quotes

I wanted to be black. I always wanted to be black† Being black iswarm and gay, being white is cold and sad.

—Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams

   Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o  u' il doit enfin accepter d'e"  tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.

—Anouilh,Jean

The oldest griefs of summer seem less sad than drone of mowers on suburban lawns and girls'thin laughter, to the ears that hear the soft rain falling of the failing stars.

—Rickword, Edgell

We loved, siröused to meet: How sad and bad and mad it wasö But then, how it was sweet!

—Browning, Robert

   Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!

—Spenser, Edmund

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men: But, at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met. No simple word, That shall be utter'd at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning: or affright The liberty, that we'll enjoy tonight.

—Jonson, Ben

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are,'It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be.'

—Harte, (Francis) Bret

Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

—Rossetti, Christina Georgina

   Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.

—Tennyson

Faire l'amour avec une femme qui ne vous pla|"t pas, c'est aussi triste que de travailler. To make love with a woman whom you do not like is as sad as going to work.

—Anouilh,Jean

Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name.

—Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Je suis triste pour ma ge¤  ne¤  ration qui est vide de toute substance humaine. I am sad for my generation which is empty of all human substance.

—Saint-Exupe¤  ry, Antoine de

Into that sad obscure sequestered state Where God unmakes but to remake the soul He else made first in vain; which must not be.

—Browning, Robert

This sad vicissitude of things.

—Sterne, Laurence

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'

—Whittier,John Greenleaf

Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me.

—Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh

Pride comes before a fall; a sense of sisterhood with sad experience.

—Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciouslyaged and sad.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Mad about the boy, It's pretty funny but I'm mad about the boy. He has a gayappeal That makes me feel There may be something sad about the boy.

—Coward, Sir Noe«  l Peirce

   So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.

—Tennyson

Stale is their gladness who were never sad.

—Harpur, Charles

'Why dois your brand sae drap wi' bluid, Edward, Edward, Why dois your brand sae drap wi' bluid, And why sae sad gang ye O?'

—Ballads