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adjective, sad·der, sad·dest.

affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful: to feel sad because a close friend has moved away.

expressive of or characterized by sorrow: sad looks; a sad song.

causing sorrow: a sad disappointment; sad news.

(of color) somber, dark, or dull; drab.

deplorably bad; sorry: a sad attempt.

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Obsolete. firm or steadfast.

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Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English sæd grave, heavy, weary, orig. sated, full; cognate with German satt, Gothic saths full, satisfied; akin to Latin satis enough, satur sated, Greek hádēn enough. See satiate, saturate

Related forms

sad·ly, adverb

sad·ness, noun

Synonyms
1. unhappy, despondent, disconsolate, discouraged, gloomy, downcast, downhearted, depressed, dejected, melancholy.

Antonyms
1. happy.

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Example Sentences

We all confront sadness and depressing situations in our.

He does justice to the sadness of the story and all its leading characters.

No words could describe either the beauty of the place, nor the profound sadness of the moment.

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We all confront sadness and depressing situations in our.

He does justice to the sadness of the story and all its leading characters.

No words could describe either the beauty of the place, nor the profound sadness of the moment.

They expected her to feel sad after moving into a space that had witnessed so much recent sadness.

His presence is no longer a source of melancholy to himself nor of sadness to his relatives and friends".

The vexing issue of when bereavement or sadness becomes a disorder, and how it should be treated, requires more study.

Our little lives have so few pleasures-in-themselves-delights that ease the pressures on our mortal sadness.

They spoke eloquently of their shock and sadness and horror at the tragedy.

He plays his fine vocal instrument with great sweetness, yet there is an undercurrent of sadness.

Most psychotherapists would agree that depression is anger and sadness that has been repressed.

Sadness fills my heart of what was lost to other generations.

Albrecht believes that this is a new type of sadness.

It is with great sadness and loss her family mourns a devoted and much loved woman.

But then a trill of sadness gurgles her speech, and the microphone is suddenly filled with her sobs.

There was a sense of sadness to be playing with one's children in a largely unknown forest canopy that will largely disappear.

In fact, environmental cues can exacerbate any innate tendency to use food as a balm for jittery nerves or sadness.

And there was a feeling of profound sadness in those times.

The wet weather made them sad, and their sadness made them more aware and attentive.

Sadness is an emotion, and depression is an illness.

She discusses, in contrast, how sadness is easy to portray in that anyone can place their head in their hands.

He fears and feels sadness that maybe one day his town will disappear.

God meant these plants to be used for healing and the sessation of unbearable sadness.

There may be a literal truth underlying the common-sense intuition that happiness and sadness are contagious.

It is with a strong sense of sadness that the physicians, nurses.

Perhaps all this helps to explain why the news of his death has been greeted more with sadness than anything else.

Pepper feels overwhelmed with sadness and fear and anger.

Just feelings of loss and sadness you would expect anyone in my situation to.

Yet its down-turned eyes and deeply lined face seem to suggest an inner sadness.

The picture, whether painted or not, is one of far more sadness than either fear or pleasure.

Its canine companion or mate feels the same sadness.

Pajak decided to compose the piece in a minor scale to acknowledge the profound sadness the virus causes.

Other times, the visits can be a source of sadness and frustration.

In many respects, it is a more acute distress cue than sadness because it usually signals a more urgent.

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World English Dictionary

sad (sæd)

—*adj* , sadder, saddest
1.	feeling sorrow; unhappy
2.	causing, suggestive, or expressive of such feelings: a sad story
3.	unfortunate; unsatisfactory; shabby; deplorable: her clothes were in a sad state
4.	informal (Brit) ludicrously contemptible; pathetic: he's a sad, boring little wimp
5.	(of pastry, cakes, etc) not having risen fully; heavy
6.	(of a colour) lacking brightness; dull or dark
7.	archaic serious; grave

—vb
8.	(NZ) to express sadness or displeasure strongly

[Old English sæd weary; related to Old Norse sathr, Gothic saths, Latin satur, satis enough]

'sadly

—*adv*

'sadness

—n

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Word Origin & History

sad

O.E. sæd "sated," from P.Gmc. *sathaz (cf. O.N. saðr, M.Du. sat, Du. zad, O.H.G. sat, Ger. satt, Goth. saþs "satiated"), from PIE *seto- (cf. L. satis "enough, sufficient," O.C.S. sytu, Lith. sotus, O.Ir. saith "satiety"), from base *sa- "satisfied" (cf. Skt. a-sinvan "insatiable"). Sense

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development seems to have passed through a meaning "heavy," and "weary, tired of" before emerging c.1300 as "unhappy." An alternative course would be through "steadfast, firm," and "serious" to "grave." In the main modern sense, it replaced O.E. unrot, negative of rot "cheerful, glad." Slang sense of "inferior, pathetic" is from 1899; sad sack is 1920s, popularized by World War II armed forces (specifically by cartoon character invented by Sgt. George Baker, 1942, and published in U.S. Armed Forces magazine "Yank"), probably a euphemistic shortening of common military slang phrase sad sack of shit. The verb sadden "to make sorrowful" is from 1600; earlier form was sade, from O.E. sadian.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

SAD abbr.
seasonal affective disorder

Slang Dictionary

sad definition

mod.
poor; undesirable. : This steak is really sad.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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