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sad    Audio Help   (sād)  Pronunciation Key  adj.   sad·der, sad·dest Affected or characterized by sorrow or unhappiness. Expressive of sorrow or unhappiness. Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing: a sad movie; sad news. Deplorable; sorry: a sad state of affairs; a sad excuse. Dark-hued; somber. [Middle English, weary, sorrowful, from Old English sæd, sated, weary; see sā- in Indo-European roots.] sad'ly adv., sad'ness n. Synonyms: These adjectives mean affected with or marked by unhappiness, as that caused by affliction. Sad is the most general: "Better by far you should forget and smile/Than that you should remember and be sad" (Christina Rossetti). Melancholy can refer to lingering or habitual somberness or sadness: a melancholy poet's gloomy introspection. Sorrowful applies to emotional pain as that resulting from loss: sorrowful mourners at the funeral. Doleful describes what is mournful or morose: the doleful expression of a reprimanded child. Woebegone suggests grief or wretchedness, especially as reflected in a person's appearance: "His sorrow . . . made him look . . . haggard and . . . woebegone" (George du Maurier). Desolate applies to one that is beyond consolation: "No one is so accursed by fate,/No one so utterly desolate,/But some heart, though unknown,/Responds unto his own" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).

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Sad\ (s[a^]d), a. [Compar. Sadder; supperl. Saddest.] [OE. sad sated, tired, satisfied, firm, steadfast, AS. s[ae]d satisfied, sated; akin to D. zat, OS. sad, G. satt, OHG. sat, Icel. sa[eth]r, saddr, Goth. sa[thorn]s, Lith. sotus, L. sat, satis, enough, satur sated, Gr. 'a`menai to satiate, 'a`dnh enough. Cf. Assets, Sate, Satiate, Satisfy, Satire.]

1. Sated; satisfied; weary; tired. [Obs.]

Yet of that art they can not waxen sad, For unto them it is a bitter sweet. --Chaucer.

2. Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard. [Obs., except in a few phrases; as, sad bread.]

His hand, more sad than lump of lead. --Spenser.

Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad. --Mortimer.

3. Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors. "Sad-colored clothes." --Walton.

Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all sad colors. --Mortimer.

4. Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous. [Obs.] "Ripe and sad courage." --Chaucer.

Lady Catharine, a sad and religious woman. --Bacon.

Which treaty was wisely handled by sad and discrete counsel of both parties. --Ld. Berners.

5. Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.

First were we sad, fearing you would not come; Now sadder, that you come so unprovided. --Shak.

The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad. --Milton.

6. Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as, a sad accident; a sad misfortune.

7. Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked. [Colloq.] "Sad tipsy fellows, both of them." --I. Taylor.

Note: Sad is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sad-colored, sad-eyed, sad-hearted, sad-looking, and the like.

Sad bread, heavy bread. [Scot. & Local, U.S.] --Bartlett.

Syn: Sorrowful; mournful; gloomy; dejected; depressed; cheerless; downcast; sedate; serious; grave; grievous; afflictive; calamitous.

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